Portuguese Chicken

Portuguese Chicken

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Binary Game

1. The highest level I got to was level 4.
2. The hardest part was having to add up all the numbers fast. But once you understand it gets easy.
3. I do like using the binary numbers because I feel like once you get it, its easy.
4. I have no idea how to use my 5 fingers to count with binary.
5. I like how computers use binary numbers because they are easy to do and easy to understand. So easy that humans can do it!

Why do Computers Use Binary?

3 new things I learned
   ~Pressure is high, high voltage; Pressure is low, low voltage.
   ~Base-n Numerals
   ~Math is needed
2 things I don’t really understand well
   ~Digital Signal
   ~Used in the real world
1 thing I would like to know more about
   ~The number 2 is "special"

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Google Boys Video

I really enjoyed the Google Boys video we watched. I liked how the two guys that came up with Google were collage drop outs because you would never guess that something as big or as popular as Google came from two, not just one but two, collage drop outs! I was surprised to know that Google was "born" the same year that I was, 1998.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Cultural Answers

1. Bead work is known for its beauty.
2. Mathematical concepts will be used.
3. Designs are based off a four- fold symmetry.
4. They are all symmetrical both length wise and height wise.
5. Embroidery, Shoshoni, Pewee, and Navajo.
6. Reflections of the top and bottom, AND left and right.
7. Beading has a deep meaning and is a way to express their culture.
8.  Healing ceremonies, a completes the drawing in one day, using colored powder such as crushed stone. The painting is brushed away later that night, along with the illness.
9. It is important to have both sides looking exactly the same. So they developed a coordinate system, measuring vertical and horizontal distance on the parka using the width of two fingers as the unit of length. The center of the coordinate system is near the belly button.

My brother and I

My brother and I
This is my little brother.