Comments on: Angry Birds

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:20:48 +0000

Thanks Amy! That’s exciting to see – They actually are confident that using “Physics class in high school” can be used in a positive way and not turn people away! Hurrah!

-cvj

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:02:14 +0000

The new Angry Bird game is called “Angry Birds Space”. Check out this quote from the review: “This title will have players recalling everything they learned in Physics class in high school to navigate the weightless and simulated gravity levels.” Cool!

By: cut out people

cut out people — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:47:27 +0000

I randomly stumbled upon this post; it’s funny to see that even physical carnival games are borrowing from successful apps / video games. I’d be curious to see other pictures of their booth!

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:16:14 +0000

kpk… took sabbatical in spring 2010, so not going to happen again until 2017. Yay. I _hope_ I visit ICTP before then!

-cvj

P.S. Thanks for the spelling correction. Ack!

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:14:32 +0000

Karl! So that means we maybe met each other much earlier than we’d originally thought… Excellent! Actually, that sort of makes sense, in my memory…

(Well, we’d have been in the same lecture theatre… was a large group if I recall, and I was not in the guest houses, but in town, so did not hang out with the fancy ping-pong paraphernalia… )

Ah, the good old days…

-cvj

By: karl

karl — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:32:04 +0000

Hi Clifford,

wow, Trieste 1991 was also the first (Spring) School for me! I did not play tetris, I played ping-pong on the ping-pong table at the Galileo guesthouse.
Tetris was of course the coolest thing at that time. It was and still is however a game for Mathematicians. Later, during my PhD studies at CERN I learned that real Physicists play Doom

-Karl

By: kpk

kpk — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:26:43 +0000

Tetris, not Tetrus. Shows that you have really gotten over it. And who’ll return my hours spent on Tetris? Ergo-I shall not get into bird fighting.

Regarding ICTP-why not spend a sabbatical there? Might get a chance to meet you.