Miscellaneous Math

Just a swift update. We have an examination in one of my math classes tomorrow, and as preparation we got a model exam, made to resemble the real thing. We did not, though, get the solutions, so I wrote them down myself and posted them in a prezi presentation (look at the bottom of this post) to the rest of the class.

What I discovered was that it was great fun to write down these explanations and try to make them as clear and comprehensive as possible (which was also good training since I am studying to become a math and physics teacher!). Next time I think I'll do it with even more colour and perhaps some neat illustrations, or animations, or the whole thing as a video perhaps? There are no limits for what you can do these days!

But unfortunately there are a limit for how long we can afford to hold the club open every night (our staff must get their beauty sleep, you know!) so we're closing for today and wish you very much welcome back tomorrow!

(And by the way, for anyone (unlikely) interested in the prezi presentation, you can found it here: (http://prezi.com/unz3ngvbgy1b/fullstandiga-losningar-till-modelltentan-i-algebra-med-kommentarer/ :) )

Discover your Neuro-Symfonica!

This will be a short but enlightening post from the club corner!

I designed this this morning:

It is a logo for a still not created club for development of the mind, called Neuro-Symfonica due to the beautiful thought of a constant symphony of electrical impulses flowing through the neurons inside our brains.

My idea is that we will study methods for boosting creativity, strive for artistic excellency and, most concrete, train memory techniques. If you haven't heard about memory techniques before you should really look them up. They are methods that anyone can use to almost immediately increase their memory capacity by an enormous amount. I have trained seriously for about a month now and yesterday I beat my record at memorizing the order of the cards in a deck and then recalling them perfectly. My new record is 2 minutes and 54 seconds, and it was my first time under three minutes! To become a Grandmaster of Memory you have to make it in two minutes blank. And to be able to beat the world record you must do it in about 20 seconds!! So I guess I have to train some more...

In the autumn I will (hopefully) compete in the swedish championships of memory sports (yes, it exists a such, and a world championship too!).

Hope I'll see you tomorrow. Have a memorable time until then (and go look up those memory techniques!)! Pie so long! :)

Quacksophone Rock

We welcome you tonight with tunes unlike any you've ever heard
before, namely those of the quacksophone!

I did this birthday card for one of my little brothers who will turn 17 tomorrow! (They are growing up so fast!) I really like drawing birthday cards on my own instead of buying them. Usually the ones in the stores are not that good, and even if they would sometimes be funny and original they stop being so pretty fast since everyone who has considered buying a birthday card

(most people who gets a birthday card perhaps)

has already seen it in the store and its laughing

or special power is gone!

Therefore, to be sure to give someone a truly original and personal card, I think you do best in doing it yourself. And I'm sure most people could. Even if one isn't that skilled at drawing it is still much more fun to get such a card then a regular one.

Anyway, enough babbled about doing your own birthday cards! Yesterday I was also at a course in improvisation theater that I'm taking. It's so much fun and can be recommended for anyone. Yes, anyone!

However, it would be sad if I bored my few?/only?/still non-existing? reader(s) to death, so I think I'll try to keep the posts rather short. This is probably an okay length. So, with a funky quacksophone rock I wave goodbye and say g'night t'yall!

Poetry Night!

Tonight is Poetry Night at the club! You are all very welcome to share your works and the winner, as usual, get's a hat filled with the world's sweetest blueberry jam!

Actually, I went to compete in the great art of Slam Poetry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam) yesterday, and it was awesome! Well, except that it didn't start before six p.m. which meant that I, due to an overload of nervosity,

had to lie in bed and repeat my poems about a hundred times before finally it was time to leave for the competition.

It is awful sometimes to be so nervous that you almost can't stand up straight, you know what I mean? When your body is overflown by some kind of strange weakness that makes your legs want to crunch down and you eyelids heavy as an overweighty elephant in too much armour. But after all I like it, because when you're feeling like that, it most often means that you are about to do something extraordinary, something exciting, something risky perhaps, something that you don't know the outcome of. And ain't that the definition of adventure? :)

Anyway, as all of my poems are in Swedish (except one which is actually a mixture of Swedish and English verses) it would probably not be much of an idea to share them here, but at least I'll give you a picture destilled from one of my poems, called "A Very Good Recipe", which illustrates it pretty well. The text in it says "thousand litres of possibilities" (and in Swedish it rhymes!).

Did I mention that I won? I did! And so I will compete in the spring finals here in Gothenburg (where I now live and study by the way...). Exciting indeed! And it also means that lots of new poems have (and are!) yet to be written!

Well, poetry night is over, and you won the blueberry jam! Congratulations! Until our lightnings strikes at the same spot again,

have a great and poetic time!