Sentences with phrase «by rube»

Old Sins, like all the other games in the series, is heavily inspired by Rube Goldberg machines.

Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations, by Rube Goldberg, edited by Peter Maresca and Paul C. Tumey (Sunday Press Books)

This is to say nothing of the challenge of assessing and nurturing teachers, a task greatly complicated by the Rube Goldberg evaluation requirements put into place in many states following Race to the Top.

But I've just viewed a bunch of YouTubes Just to see how the name's said by rubes It seems «glick» is most used Ah, too bad we're confused; For it makes us seem rather like noobs

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It features the band OK Go with an amazing Rube Goldberg machine put together by Mindshare, a community of students and engineers.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

«The bad part is the Rube Goldberg system that arose by accident.

There is so much good that could be done by the millions this rube squanders on such tripe.

Aiden and I started our design research by watching videos of Rube Goldberg machines on YouTube.

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Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the Naturalis historia8 (perhaps the first encyclopedia in history), which in fact he mentions in «Funes the Memorious»: Funes asks the narrator (Borges) for any Latin text, and Borges obliges with volume VII of Pliny's encyclopedia and Quicherat's Thesaurus, just so the rube will be rudely disappointed upon finding out that one can not learn such a complicated language using only a book and a dictionary.

The problem goes back to the earliest days of quantum mechanics and was formulated most famously by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who imagined a Rube Goldberg - type of quantum experiment with a cat.

As if that Rube Goldbergian feat weren't enough, Wong and his colleagues also showed that by adding additional recombinases together with different target strands, they could build a wide variety of circuits, each designed to carry out a different logical operation.

The central character, Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey), is an amiably serene, aw - shucks rube who is plucked from obscurity by a fledgling cable channel called True TV and made the star of his own round - the - clock, this - is - my - private - reality show, a kind of marathon solo version of The Real World or An American Family.

The comedy, directed by Aardman fixture Nick Park, centers on Dug (voice of Eddie Redmayne), a late - Stone Age cave man who lives in a lush valley with a tribe of bungling rubes and an adorable pet hog.

A Hard Day — Somewhere the dominant strain of the crime movie genre morphed from Woovian tales of moral codes in unjust societies (ala A Better Tomorrow) to Rube Goldberg narratives driven by slapstick escalations of violence.

In fact, a whole parade of colorful performers passes by, including Billy Bob Thornton as a slim and steely silver fox of a prosecutor who battles Hank; Ken Howard as the no - nonsense walrus - like judge presiding over Papa Palmer's case; and Dax Shepard as an unseasoned rube litigator.

Other modern - day talking heads include Janney's LaVona, Stan's Gillooly, the coach, and a reporter for the TV tabloid show «Hard Copy» played by Bobby Cannavale, hooting at the rubes.

Could the same guy have possibly helmed both The Money Pit's ingenious Rube Goldberg set - pieces — each a pre-CGI marvel of precision timing that doesn't just ape the stunts of the silent greats (Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin), but belongs in their class — and its pedestrian, overlit (by Gordon Willis, of all people) scenes of banter?

The Rube Goldberg project culminates in a presentation of machines, attended by the broader school community including family, friends and «celebrity» guest judges.

I think of the Rube Goldberg machines built by engineering students in our makerspace, and I imagine the classroom furniture and prototypes being built by the students in my own Art and Tech elective class, projects that start with 3D models and prototypes and end in functional designs that are in use throughout the school.

Here are two examples (1 and 2) of Hyperdocs by 4th grade teacher, Courtney Ziska, who developed a great Project Based Learning unit focused on Rube Goldberg Machines.

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Here are two Rube Goldberg machines built by Target.

Despite its Rube Goldberg - like drivetrain and bogglingly complex electronics, the Acura NSX earned its All - Star status the old - fashioned way: by consistently putting a grin on drivers» faces.

South Carolina is a harbinger of future problems, in their case made worse by opportunists who sold the idea of high - yielding investments to trustees that proved to be a bunch of rubes.

Personally I think the worst thing to ever happen to the Zelda franchise was the insistence of some rube in Japan that all the games could be organized into sensible timelines (the plural necessitated by time travel, which, ugh.)

As a complement to the kinetic sculptures in our gallery exhibition «A Walk Through the Cosmos,» this program of short films is inspired by the whimsy of Rube Goldberg's surreal machines.

Its clanking can not, in any way, be described as tuneful, but the sounds produced by Hawkinson's machines don't matter nearly as much as their delightfully arduous Rube Goldberg methods.

As a complement to the kinetic sculptures in our gallery exhibition «A Walk Through the Cosmos,» this program of short films is inspired by the whimsy of Rube Goldberg's surreal

They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..

Courts make a VERY clear distinction between free speech and deliberate libel; and equating a respected scientist (respected by his peers; he doesn't need the respect of the rubes) with a most reviled pervert and convicted criminal does qualify as deliberate slander.

Consider the wise observations of the rube who, while unschooled in any art or science, is able to penetrate to the heart of a matter by combining experience and independence of thought.

This bit of Rube Goldbergery is created by Daniel Bauen and is «Both cleanly powered and built from 2 recycled bicycles, scrap steel and wood, leaking 5 gallon water jug and a lacrosse stick, our pedal powered tennis ball launcher is a unique innovate or die entry.

Finally, you need to make it clear that you're no rube when it comes to playing PC games in the living room by ensuring you have a public Steam Community profile, have at least ten people on your Steam friends list, and have at some point played a game with a gamepad in Steam's Big Picture mode.

To avoid being bitten by this large ocean - roaming eating machine, I constructed elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque systems to turn off the light switch across the room from my top bunk.