Category: life

Guess the genre

We went to the movie theater and in the middle of the movie – which was after 45 minutes – this

appeared. Last time I have experienced an intermission was between two movies of LOTR.

This time it was a kids movie: Patos! Based on the booking information it was supposed to be the OV but it turned out to be the Portuguese version. Since the ducks did not discuss philosophy we were able to follow anyway and had fun.

While I did not further investigate the real reason for the intermission I believe it is intended as service break for the young audience.

tttool

My son got a tiptoi. I was interested how it works and a little bit of googling lead me to this page. It provides a tool to create your own pages, books, adventures or puzzles. I gave it a try and this is the result.

a hand
result of 1st try with tttol

It does not look pretty and I could not print it in color, but the b/w version works. You can see the dotty area on each finger and on the i/o and play button. They contain the code that is read by the tiptoi pen. The example ha two modes. Mode one will just say the name of the finger when you touch it. Mode two can be activated by touching the play button on the lower right. If you touch the fingers in order starting with the thump it’ll tell the German poem “Das ist der Daumen …” or complain if the oder is not correct.

Find here the code:

product-id: 42
comment: das_ist_der_daumen
init: $spiel:=0
welcome: hallo
language: de
scripts:
 dau:
 - $spiel == 0? P(daumen)
 - $spiel == 1? $pos == 0? P(vdaumen) $pos := 1
 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 0? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm)
 zei:
 - $spiel == 0? P(zeige)
 - $spiel == 1? $pos == 1? P(vzeige) $pos := 2
 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 1? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm)
 mit:
 - $spiel == 0? P(mittel)
 - $spiel == 1? $pos == 2? P(vmittel) $pos := 3
 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 2? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm)
 ring:
 - $spiel == 0? P(ring)
 - $spiel == 1? $pos == 3? P(vring) $pos := 4
 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 4? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm)
 kle:
 - $spiel == 0? P(klein)
 - $spiel == 1? $pos == 4? P(vklein) $pos := 0
 - $spiel == 1? $pos != 4? P(vnochmal,vanderer,vsicher,vhmmm)
 spiel:
 - $spiel == 0? P(spiel_start) $spiel:=1 $pos := 0
 - $spiel == 1? P(spiel_end) $spiel:=0 $pos := 0
speak:
 hallo: "Hallo!"
 daumen: "Daumen" 
 zeige: "Zeigefinger" 
 mittel: "Mittelfinger" 
 ring: "Ringfinger" 
 klein: "kleiner Finger" 
 spiel_start: "Das Spiel wird jetzt gestartet. Beginne mit dem Daumen!"
 spiel_end: "Das Spiel wird jetzt beendet"
 vdaumen: "Das ist der Daumen!" 
 vzeige: "Der schüttelt die Pflaumen!" 
 vmittel: "der liest sie auf!" 
 vring: "der trägt sie nach Haus!" 
 vklein: "und der isst sie alle alle auf!" 
 vnochmal: "Versuchs nochmal!"
 vanderer: "Versuch einen anderen Finger!"
 vsicher: "Sicher?"
 vhmmm: "Hmmmm!"