My sons just see a UFO. Remember when CD’s replaced the Iomega drives and held 7x the data? Now there are only two things left to do with them: throw them into a bucket, and use them as chew toys.
The annual BSU Science and Engineering Festival was held today with thousands of kids and their parents flocking to the campus for presentations, live demos, hands-on activities, free giveaways and a whole lot more. It’s my 4th year giving a presentation. Three years ago was my 2nd ever Guinness World Record attempt. Today I was going for my 80th-something.
I had one of my better presentations with a bit of new material on the educational front, the juggling front, and the balancing front. It culminated with a Guinness World Record Attempt for Most CDs thrown into a target in one minute.
The target was a bucket 3 metes away, less than 30 cm in diameter, and the CDs had to be thrown one at a time. The previous record was 25. To start, I
I practiced for a couple months with some serious crunch-time training. I gave it 4 attempts on stage today and broke the record every time.
Way to go! What a fun event!