Continuing Activities - Month Two

[smallhobbit]

Firstly, I finished two more FutureLearn courses: Music Psychology: Why does 'Bohemian Rhapsody' feel so good? (Griffith University - Brisbane, Australia).  I like Bohemian Rhapsody, and sing along loudly to it in the car, air guitaring at traffic lights.  However, the psychology failed to impress since the impression given was we like music because we can predict how it's going to go, but BR breaks those predictions, which is why we like it, because it's unpredictable.  Also, the lecturers were baseing their thoughts on first hearing it in the film Wayne's World, and saying 'of course, if you'd heard it when it first came out, you would have had a different experience'.  I bought the album A Night at the Opera, which featured BR, when it first came out.

I also completed Flexagons and the Math Behind Twisted Paper (Weizmann Institute of Science).  I enjoyed the initial stages and making the basic flexagons (pdfs to print out were provided) although I did get rather sticky glueing the two sides together.  But it became too complicated and theoretical for me.  But the idea proved useful for a ficlet I've just written for fan_flashworks 

Meanwhile, my cross stitch continues apace:

 

To the point where I was able to say I was one-quarter of the way through:



And to my current position:

 
 

Comments

[badly_knitted]

So pretty! I haven't cross-stitched in weeks...

We used to sing along to Bohemian Rhapsody on the bus to school whenever it came on the radio =D

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I continue to do it most days, sometimes just a little, sometimes rather more, depending on what I feel like.

That seems entirely reasonable :)

[corvidology]

The courses you take sound like fun.

Through the university I have access to a whole bunch of online courses I could take, it's just finding the time to do it.

[smallhobbit]

They are - some are more interesting than others, but without trying them I'd never know.

These courses suit me because they're only a few weeks long and don't require too much time each day - the more you put in the better, but it depends how much I'm enjoying it. I suspect you have quite enough to do without following an online course as well.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wonderful job with the cross stitch and I so admire how you're continuing to try new things and learn! That's marvelous!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I'm in a position when I have the time to try these things out, which is good.

[aome]

Oh, that's just getting lovelier and lovelier.

I actually don't remember where (or even when) I first heard BR, but it was neither via Wayne's World nor via a proper Queen album. The radio, most likely?

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

It probably was the radio - it still gets played, even after all these years :)

[margaret_r]

Pity Bohemian Rhapsody turned into a bit of a fizzer, but you don't know till you try these things do you and the fun is in the trying:)

Your cross stitch is looking gorgeous.

[smallhobbit]

Oh quite. Some things I've done simply out of a vague curiousity and I've been left wanting to learn more, and some have added to my general knowledge, which has come in useful at a later date. But without being willing to try I'd have missed out on so much.

Thank you very much :)

[debriswoman]

Cross stitch coming along nicely:-)
And yes, some of us are old enough for the original BR :-p

[smallhobbit]

Thank you :)

Well, exactly!

[moth2fic]

I bought the album when it first came out, too.
Those sunflowers are making terrific progress!

[smallhobbit]

I'm glad I'm not the only one here who did that.

And thank you - I've been pleased with my progress.