Awesome

So, today was pretty darn good. I got a new ethernet cord, a much longer one, so that I no longer have a trip-wire in the middle of my room, because it can go behind my furniture, which is really wonderful. I kept trying to fall and bring my computer down with me, which would not have been fun at all, so that is fixed wonderfully well.

My PerCog (Perception and Cognition) class was also incredibly awesome today. If you haven't had Prof. Banks, and you have the opportunity to do so, you should take it. He's great! So, we're studying the eye at the moment, and how we use it to see things. So he was explaining how an aperture allows light through, and as you make it smaller, an image gets more clear. However, as soon as you place a lens over the aperture, the image becomes incredibly clear because the lens focuses the light into one area, instead of having a large blur circle. Anyway, he had all these neat examples, and we spent about half the class in the dark, watching him open different sized holes in a covering on the window, and showing us what the picture looked like on a screen, changing the size of the hole, and whether there was a lens etc. But, the most awesome thing ever, was that he had carved a hole in the door to the classroom, and attached a doll house room to the door behind the hole! He put a lens over the hole, and we could see into the room, however it looked right side up, which, it should have been upside down. So, to prove to us that the image really was upside down, and that he had just built the room to appear right side up, he went around the door, and stuck his face in the room! And indeed, he was upside down. Him sticking his face in the room and making faces at us was pretty funny in the first place, but then he pulls out a Barbie, and has her "walk" around the room. He then brings out a large, green, stuffed monster and proceeded to have it "eat" Barbie! It was absolutely, one of the funniest things I have ever seen a Prof. do in a class. Just amazing. And the class was laughing so hard by the end of his little puppet show, that no one had any idea what he said to us, although the fact that he was in another room with the door closed didn't help any. But wow, it was fabulous. I wait in anticipation of what the man will do next. Yay for visual examples of academic studies! :)