geckos

I'm writing a thingum about why Torah ink is particularly interesting, and in so doing needed to learn more about how ordinary inks work. What I learned led me to wonder how permanent markers manage to write on glass and other very smooth surfaces. Which led me to finding out about how different types of glues stick to things, which led me to learning about geckos.

Geckos have really amazing feet.

Which is the message of this post. Geckos: way cooler than you ever thought a gecko could be.

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I'm so evil sometimes.

Student S has been learning with me since the beginning of the year. We spend three and a half hours together on Wednesdays, practical and theory, and she works in her free time as well so she's making awesome progress.

And looking at her latest work this Wednesday, I reckon she's about ready to start a proper mezuzah. I know this will come as something of a surprise to her, because she tends to underestimate herself, so I just drop it in, ever so casually, over her shoulder while she's working - Okay, this is looking really nice now...I'd say you could start that mezuzah whenever you feel like it - knowing perfectly well that she's going to be entirely gobsmacked (Huh? Me? Mezuzah? Yikes!), and anticipating amusement.

Which was rather evil, imo. But it was funny.