
Pentagons have 5 sides. A dozen (regular) pentagons make a (regular) Dodecahedron - one of the 5 Platonic Solids.
... surely you always wanted to know that?!
This is a rather messy blog. Sometimes I post fairly often, and sometimes I don't ...

Oops - the thingy I had here died ... (the one below still seems to work though, but I don't think either of them have actually made me any money yet ...)
... this one probably works ... I wonder if anyone will click on it? does anyone click on the adds? (I guess someone does or they wouldn't still be a thing - lol)
I think I am supposed to list 5 things I intend to do/change ... hopefully stuff I am already doing counts? ... we already have energy saving shower heads and light globes, I try to walk places instead of driving if I can (but unfortunately most places I go are too far for that), and the sprinklers in the garden have not been turned on for at least a couple of years (at the times when the water restrictions have been eased to allow sprinklers, there has been enough rain that we didn't actually need to use them - because the garden is mostly native plants, and the bit of watering I have done has been with a hose from the washing machine ;-)
Our new washing machine is one of those fancy front loaders that uses hardly any water, and DH (dear husband) and I seem to be forever turning lights off after the kids have left them on (I also tend to turn lights off at my friend's place too ... too bad if it drives her and her partner nuts or anything - they really don't need to have every light on in the house!). I have also planted quite a few trees when I have gone to help on projects with Landcare/Greening Australia/etc.
oh - and I also recycle/re-use stuff if I can ... especially yarn and fabric - LOL (yes I am into textile art/quilting/crochet/etc - and I like the whole idea of "patchwork" being about using recycled/scrap fabric to create something useful and/or artistic)
... but I do need to try and not spend quite so long in the shower ...
(and I probably should remember to take that bucket down to the bathroom, so I can collect the water while I wait for it to get hot enough to get in, and use it on the front garden or whatever)
Can you believe my son is doing his doctorate in maths on platonic solids and other such . It is amazing what can be done with them.
ReplyDeletethe mind boggles ... but I think I would be better at studying spiders ...
ReplyDeletehmmm - I wonder if anyone has done a PHD on the geometry of spider webs?
(I am sure they probably have - lol)