Légos: February 2008 Archives
Je suis tombé il y a quelques jours sur un article très intéressant de FreeLUG décrivant une expérience de construction collective où chaque enfant construit un même modèle de wagon en légos, qui sont ensuite assemblés en un grand train.
Voyant ceci, Augustin a voulu faire pareil, et comme le plan du wagon était donné, je l'ai imprimé hier (Augustin m'a même appelé au travail pour m'assurer que je n'oublierais pas) et nous l'avons construit hier soir. N'ayant que peu de légos, nous n'avons pu en faire qu'un seul, mais c'était déjà une expérience très sympathique.
Avant de vous montrer quelques photos, j'en profite pour recommander vivement le site de l'auteur de ce projet. Si vous êtes fans de légos, cela vaut clairement le détour.
The other day, I read a very interesting article on the failure of multitasking. This has lead me to look at how I behave and when I multitask, how badly I do it.
There are times when things go well, like washing the dishes or walking, and listening to a podcast at the same time. There are times when it's not so good, for instance grocery shopping and listening to podcasts (yes, I listen to many podcasts): I realized last Saturday, after losing my spot in a long podcast, that there were many things I could not remember hearing. I recently also found another occurrence of failing at multitasking: searching for Lego bricks.
Yesterday, I spent some time playing with Augustin, and my assigned task was to rebuild the engine from the cargo train set. Most of the time was spent searching for the correct brick, and I tried a couple times to search for two bricks at the same time, to save time. I then realized it requires a lot of concentration to keep both shapes in mind, and it's much easier to lose this concentration and let the mind wander, not finding anything. Searching for a single brick is much simpler and can be done in a much more relaxed way.
So the bottom line is that even when playing with Legos, I'm not too good at multitasking. I guess it's OK, I'll just have to remember it.
