Detailed Drawing Preview

I have a couple of ideas and this is one of them. I cut it down as a preview showing some details but it's far from finished.
It's a great practice and I think I'm improving each time. So much fun.

How small is the world?

Metaphorically speaking:
Let's say that during your vacation in France you enter a café and are about to order. As you stand in line waiting, the person in front of you turns around and appears to be your old class mate from elementary school.
Most probably, even if that person was only a friend of a friend, you'd start to talk. One of you will either think, or say, "oh, the world is so small!" and then you'd end up drinking coffee together.

That got me thinking, how small is the world really?
I was studying but got distracted by this thought and as I reflected I was looking out the window and saw a small bird sitting on one of the branches of the tree in the garden.
I said to myself: "the world must be so much bigger to that bird, than it is to me..."
Based on the thought that this might just be the case the size of the world must be proportionally smaller for a tall man, lets say 1,91 like myself, than for a child measuring only 1,30 above the ground.
Now, to think that in almost every "normal" case (I don't like the word normal), overlooking the fact that we shrink when we get older, it's true that with age comes height and vice versa.
Another parameter is that with age comes experience and I believe in most of the cases the source of imagination is greater in younger days.

The conclusion must be that the size of the world somehow must be inversely proportional to the size and age of the person.
Back to the initial reflection; the bigger and older we get, the probability of bumping into one of the unexpected meetings must then increase, yes?

I'm growing bigger and undoubtedly I'm also getting older, therefore my world is shrinking - and that means I need to buy more coffee.

Scanning Printer Result

I finally boughtthe printer I've been looking for and four clicks on the website, four thousand CZK and four hours later it arrived.
I did the setup and eveything worked just fine. Finally I can scan my documents, print and copy.
I'll put up my sketches and and a neat test print. Some of them you've seen already so there will be a double post. Note that most of them are just quick drawings and I'm happy to reveal that I'm currently working on some drawings with a little more time invested in the drawing process.
Enjoy.

Biophysics: Day #4 - 6 + First attempt

You how authors sometimes begin their books with the end and then what follows is the story of how the character(s) got there? I'm about to do just that.
If you're just here to find out how I did on the Biophysics all you have to do is finish this sentence (although it is not the end).

I've already taken my first attempt and I did indeed fail it, hence my humble adding of the sentence: "I was naive to think that one and a half week of studies was enough to cover the whole course".
But before I begin to explain how it was being examined let me first tell you about the way there, just as promised.

During Friday there wasn't much going on. I hardly left the apartment and tried to dig through the two last chapters in the booklet.
The pages in what we refer to as "the green booklet" really is horrible to read. Not that it lack the information, the other way around actually which cause it to be difficult reading.
My friend said it in a nice way: "...it's medical orientated physics, not physics orientated for medics..."

As I try to write down what I've been doing it hit me that the days all go blurry and starts to get mixed up in my head which is a sign of too much reading and to little living. The fact that I've sacrificed the workouts is not making me too happy but it's exam period and if that's what it takes then fine.
It's safe to say that I got all the other credits and the only obstacle left is the biophysics.
Saturday went by with at lot of formula memorizing and not too much reading which was sort of a good break from all the reading and sorting of terms.
During Sunday I mostly looked over it all and one minute it honestly felt like I knew enough but then waves of doubt went through my mind.
I scheduled for at least 8 hours of sleep and went to bed rather confident.

I wasn't nervous as I waited to get in for the examination. It started at 9 and I woke up, got ready and dressed up nicely one and a half hour before that. Note that the biophysic-department is in the building right next to my apartment so I didn't
have to stress.
During the exam it's really strange how everything in your head seems to just crawl up and hide.
It's easy to be wise after the event but another week would be good to have and a reschedule would have been the right thing to do.

Taking water over my head is just fine, failing an attempt is also fine - mistakes made are almost always good things, because one can correct them.
There's also rumours roaming around that it's fairly easy to cheat during this type of exam but I honestly rather get put down proven to have a lack of knowledge, do the second attempt better and finish it all of with a solid knowledge.
I discussed this matter the other day and the conclusion was as solid. The hard way is the best way, taking that road down will lead to more knowledge, experience and memories. Even if this philosophy covers life in its whole, not only biophysics, one is still able to apply it.

Now I have to schedule another week and I think that will be just enough in order to learn the booklet from inside out.
Although I'll look like this when I'm done it's going to be worth it.

Knowledge is easy to carry...

Biophysics: Day #3

Today have been a really great day, even if I didn't study that much biophysics I've got a lot of other things done.
Since the Latin test is tomorrow I've mainly studied the Latin vocabulary and the declension table. The grammar patterns are pretty much stuck in my head from the first revision for the first test which saved me a lot of trouble this time.

Biophysics are progressing thou, today I spent some time to repeat yesterday's material covering Thermodynamics and Electrical Phenomena. There's still a lot left but I'm slicing it down into pieces and in that way I can easily see how I progress.
I'll post some nice videos for basic understanding in X-ray and MRI theory and once again, check out Kahn Academy for Thermodynamics and Electricity - he is simply amazing.

The weather today was so nice, almost early spring, and I could leave my jacket at home. I took a stroll up and down the streets next to the apartment in search for a printer. I've been needing one for a long time now and today I felt the urge to get it. That didn't happen, all I ended up with in the end were a new set of colour and sketch pencils, new folders and blank papers.
I know what kind of printer I want to buy, the problem is just to find it without going to the outskirts of Prague where I guess all the shopping malls are located.
That reminds me of the fact that I need to go to both Ikea and to a place that sell vacuum cleaners and washing machines, but I'll deal with that after the exams.

So, videos below, enjoy.

Putting it Mildly Quote

"...If you will devote a little time to studying the staggering photographs taken by the Hubble telescope, you will be scrutinizing things that are far more awesome and mysterious and beautiful - and more chaotic and overwhelming and forbidding - than any creation or "end of days" story.

If you read Hawking on the "event horizon," that theoretical lip of the "black hole" over which one could in theory plunge and see the past and the future (except that one would, regrettably and by definition, not have enough "time"), I shall be surprised if you can still go on gaping at Moses and his unimpressive "burning bush."
If you examine the beauty and symmetry of the double helix, and then go on to have your own genome sequence fully analyzed, you will be at once impressed that such a near-perfect phenomenon is at the core of your being, and reassured (I hope) that you have so much in common with other tribes of the human species - "race" having gone, along with "creation" into the ashcan - and further fascinated to learn how much you are a part of the animal kingdom as well.
 
Now at last you can be properly humble in the face of your maker, which turns out not to be a "who," but a process of mutation with rather more random elements than our vanity might wish. This is more than enough mystery and marvel for any mammal to be getting along with: the most educated person in the world now has to admit - I shall not say confess - that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more..."

- Quote from Christopher Hitchen's Putting it Mildly: Part 3

Birthday Dinner at Lemon Leaf

The red curry was really spicy, but Christian didn't give up... 




















Thank you all for a really great night, and most importantly: Congratulations to Suresh