Did you see what I did there with the title? Probably not, you, like me, are probably too old.
Anyhoo, long story short is someone’s kid just got a gold star in “thience” (skools here have done away with separate physics and chemistry and biology etc, replacing it all with “science” which is of course anything but) anyway the teecher holds a spot quiz with a prize of no homework that week for anyone that could answer a really difficult for a 13 years old “thience kwestchun”.
The question was When were LED’s invented?
The kid aced it with “early nineteeen seventies”
Teecher was amazed, as were the rest of the class.
Kid’s dad tells me kid explains to him that he knew the answer because he had been around my place the week before and heard and seen on the big screen media jukebox that early seventies band LED Zeppelin…. so he knew LED’s were at least that old, and since the 70’s is ancient history to a 13 year old, it was unlikely to be in prehistory before that.
I’ve now spent a day running around with ideas of light emitting diode zeppelin (supported by the electric light orchestra of course) and their awesome 1971 world tour with the Tesla Girl etc etc etc running through my head, and laughing…
It’s so much of a *better* story than bonham and plant making a pun on a lead balloon, and of course the hindenburg imagery was still fairly fresh at the time so no leap to see how the album cover artist came up with that one.
Why I am really laughing, and I suppose I should be crying, is the other reported fact that the whole class thinks this kid is a fucking smartass now, and even the teecher agreed, see, as far as the teecher knew, the explanation that a band was named as a tribute to the new technology, and that is how the kid guessed the right answer seemed plausible to the teecher, and after all, all that mattered was the kid got the right answer…. and how could he have got the right answer unless there was some connection there.
I normally go to great lengths to anonymise people, but in this instance, this kid deserves the posterity, because he has unwittingly crafted and planted a meme that once heard, will never go away.
So a glass raised to you, young James, may you go far in life, though it is doubtful, given the teechers you have…. you know, the kid made (based on the information he had) a perfectly logical guess, but instead of being praised for that and then schooled in various ways of analysing that guess to see if it was likely to be a valid one, he is just rewarded, the whole incident is already yesterday’s news to him.
Sorry to repost my question from the Brix – part III post:
Any idea why glossy plastic is so popular?
I mean it can’t be just because it’s shiny, or can it?
And is it possible to “mat” a glossy finish somehow, ala retro bright, give it some treatment that would make the shiny go away?
I ask because the brix top is piano black, that’s the one and only nitpick about it.
Comment by guest — November 2, 2017 @ 4:16 pm
I have no idea why it is the way it is, 2 mins with a scouring pad would cure it though, or a can of matt black spray.
Comment by wimminz — November 2, 2017 @ 4:18 pm
So much face palm in one article
Comment by justwanttocommentblog — November 4, 2017 @ 9:26 am
LEDs been around since the early 70s, but we are just now getting LED light bulbs.
technology came to a screeching halt after the moon landing.
Comment by patriarchal landmine — November 13, 2017 @ 3:00 pm