Interesting. My mom is constantly crocheting stuff. I have no idea how she comes up with am intricate 2D design from just roping things together.

We had a round window decoration with beads in the center hanging on the picture window. The neighbor called it a dream catcher but mom called it window decoration. It had to be starched sometimes.

And there were also crocheted stars on the Christmas tree.

If I remember correctly, Von Neumann in his last years went a little mad. He would go visit his beloved computer in its dedicated room and fire it up.

I think we would all go a little mad if our computers and phones had to be visited in a room somewhere, and our time was spent writing down what we would say to them when we go to visit.

In his last days, he had his wife help him making the amulets with the Torah to be worn on forehead. His wife was like "really, we are going back to this, we are so far advanced in science". But she helped him.

and there he was in his last days holed up in a room frantically writing programs that would probably never be run with the hamsa on his forehead