Something Fun to Distract You
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Full disclosure: when I was a kid back in the 70′s, I had an entire book about flexagons, and I used to spend hours making and playing with them. Glad to hear they haven’t completely faded into obscurity.
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November 8th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Vi Hart rocks. Here’s here follow-up, a little guide to hexaflexagon safety.
Hexaflexagon Safety Guide
November 8th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
There must be some way that we can use this against
communismObama.November 8th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
@2 – Yup. Impeach Obama over the Benghazi cover-up, then give one of these to President Biden so he’s too busy playing with it to pass any stupid laws.
November 8th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
This is even better–hexaflexagon Mexican food. Same person: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqLcXCzcxz8
November 8th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Oh we could impeach him no problem but it’s a cold day in Hell that will come before the Senate of Harry Reid and Elizabeth Warren boots him out of office.
November 8th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
She sounds like that girl that does the guild. Probably not the same person, as the one on the guild is into music, and this one is into math.
Sweet math.
I’m not big on paper though. I’m more of a synthetic polymer guy. More symmetry.
November 9th, 2012 at 12:05 am
Delicious hexaflexamexagon math! I am thoroughly distracted. Thanks, Harv!
November 9th, 2012 at 2:12 am
I’m probably going to spend half the day tomorrow fiddling with bits of paper until I get it right and will feel an insanely disproportionate sense of accomplishment when I succeed.
(Like that time I figured out how to fold a piece of copier paper in half 8 times although they said it couldn’t be done – Oo Rah!)
November 9th, 2012 at 9:36 am
Well, I know what I’m going to be doing the rest of the day here at work.
(Hint, it won’t be doing actual work.)
November 10th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Update: I did it!
I’m Awesome!