Sunday Misc 180217

Really miscellaneous today:

• Heck it takes me three of four weeks to internalise the names of 100+ students whom I meet anew every September. This teacher has fewer students but a more complex repertoire of knowledge.
• Yesterday it was give a hand. Here's the robo-future . . . from Boston Dynamics
• walk like a robot? - think like a robot!
• Popular culture
• Pyromania
• Shoppin' in LIDL - another take same theme
• Jonathan Pie getting shouty about shooting
• Fatbergs [severalprev]: MeFi latest on sewer backups 
• Lost letters from alphabet
• Longest train journey in the World 
• Plant Sphagnum not trees: 
• Pythagoras, slide-rules and octaves:
• The mother of all bowls