WTF science

So, the theremin.
What a pain in the ass.
I think the headphones are the problem. First the sound quality is bad and second you feel goofy dancing around to noises no one else can hear.
At least, I do.
I do think I’ll eventually get a kit, though, and put together my own. With an amp or something. Gamma gets a kick out of playing it too. You should have seen her and her little friend jamming.
We need to get the tuner and figure out where the notes are, she said.
I’m thinking the headphones are good for, like practice, but you really need a PA or something if you’re going to play it.
How would that look at a concert? Like you’re in a band, standing there with your headphones, grooving away, and the audience is going, WTF is with the theremin? I can’t hear it.

Beta is on a field trip. Like all seventeen year old girls, she’s into particle accelerators now. She gets back tomorrow. Alpha is flying to Japan this afternoon.

I have to go digest all this science. I don’t know where it came from. WTF. I’ve got all these electronics projects going. I hate electronics. I made an electromagnet this weekend out of a 9 volt battery, a chisel and some wire.
It wasn’t very strong. It picked up a nail. Two nails were too heavy for it. Eventually, I want to develop something that I can carry in my pack that will enable me to stick to the outsides of trains and buses.

3 responses to “WTF science

  1. This sounds like the early stages of a Superhero character development going terribly, terribly wrong..

  2. Sticking onto buses and trains is likely to get you ID’d as a terrorist, or, at least, a cartoon character. Well, here in Boston, anyway.

  3. mig

    sorry, i meant, “carry in my JET pack.”