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It's so good to see a task completion!
The Italian word for 'almond' is 'mandorla', which I found out because I ate some mandorla ice-cream last week. If you look at the Wikipedia entry for Mandorla, you can find out more, such as:
"In the symbolism of Hildegarde von Bingen the mandorla refers to the Cosmos." and "In icons of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the mandorla is used to depict sacred moments which transcend time and space."
I have been trying to figure out how old this almond flavouring was, and it has been concluded that due to the price ("1/1") being before decimalisation (pre-1971), but the volume (1/2 fl oz or 14.2ml) being likely to be after metrication (post-1965), it is probably from between 1965 and 1971.
A friend has also mentioned that the address including "Liverpool 1" helps date it, as apparently those postal districts were introduced in 1932, but Liverpool would have got modern-style postcodes some time in the early 1970s.
So, I ate almond flavouring that was probably between about 41 and 47 years old!
Ahh, cute dragon.
It seems terribly cruel to slay dragons so I secretly hope that you did not really slay the other dragon and instead live happily ever after, eating cake.
Spiralsheep has now gone on a mundane journey based on my mundane journey, which was based on the original one by Kate Pocrass:
In which there is a Mundane Journey (and Dispatcher Derive)
It's March 9th now. (Well, in my timezone anyway.) Is this happening?
I have worn the scarf frequently over the past few months. The cross stitch is looking a bit ragged around the edges, but it's still holding on, and I've added more glue.
Sometimes, just sometimes, people ask about it, and sometimes they even scan the QR code.
I also tried Sleep Talk Recorder (iPhone, Android), which supposedly records you talking in your sleep. I only tried it once though, but no words were picked up that time.
I ended up with a million ideas for this task in the end, and for other sleep related apps, but as I was new to reading accelerometers and using Processing, etc, for now decided to just go with a simple version.
Thanks!
I'm going to try it out on an Android soon. It should just be a case of tweaking a few parameters (accelerometer values might be different, and screen size obviously is).