Yeah, I assumed it was more of a drag thing, since I can't really conceptualize the physics required to make it actually rotate/roll.

Though to be fair, there's a shitload of physics that are way beyond my grasp, hence my question.

Personally, I think I'd stick a little googly eye on top of it for a bit just to see what happens. And to amuse myself a bit.

I've been thinking about one of those tables. I have a weird question. In the videos and descriptions I've read, everything says that the ball is rolling across/through the sand. And I can't tell if that's really true or not from any of the videos.

So, is the ball actually rolling? Or is it just being dragged through the sand without doing any rotation of its own? Can you tell the difference when watching it draw?

I suppose I was just wondering if one side of the ball ends up showing appreciable wear from the friction over time if it's being dragged, or if you're supposed to manually change the ball's Y-axis every now and again (flip it or anything). Not that that would be a big deal, of course.

Just curious about your experience with that.

I can look up everything just fine from my desktop. When I'm actually watching movies on a screen that's larger than any cell phone screen.

Out of curiosity - do you actually pause the movie you're watching on that tiny screen and open a new window/tab/app to find the name of an actor? That seems a bit unwieldy to me.

Don't get me wrong, I usually have at least two browsers open when I'm streaming vids. One for the video, the other screen for browsing or whatever. So it's not really an issue for me to use my 'non-video' monitor to look up some facts, but it seems like it'd be cumbersome at the very least to try to do that on my phone.