The fence, graffiti, ramps and staircases remind me vaguely of a Sesame Street set. I realize this is not the look they were going for, but the urban edge feels constructed, assembled from pieces of West Side Story and Romper Room. I feel out of place. It is not my age, there are plenty of [...]
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Tuesday mishmash: Roshambo edition
1. So, you think you can play rock-scissors-paper with the best of them, eh? You think you have it wired, so you get the exact piece of sushi you want every time? Hm? And does anyone but the West Coast contingent even engage in that particular sushi-restaurant ritual? You may think that roshambo (rochambeau? Experts [...]
How to Try
I am missing the arrogance of my stupid youth. When did I get so embarrassed of making a fool of myself? Why wasn’t I ashamed of myself then? The lack of shame usually works for my college students, in that they dare to say and do all kinds of productive things in my classes. It [...]
Zombie
I just woke up after 10 hours of solid sleep. I passed out while reading with all the lights on and my contacts in. I dragged myself out of bed just to start working, at 5am, and will be working until I fall asleep again tonight. I am barely alive. Yes, it’s the summer session. [...]
Breathing the World Around Us
About a week ago my mother was hospitalized after a rare reaction to the antibiotics she was given for pneumonia which caused her lungs to seize and interrupted her breathing. She was shopping with a friend of hers when she collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital. Thankfully she’s making a full recovery [...]
Die, monster, die
Exercise: take a piece of blank paper with some crayons or felt tips. Draw a monster. Put the monster in the middle of the floor. Select an imaginary (unless you have kids’ toys available) weapon. Take the weapon and kill the monster. What did your monster look like? Describe the qualities of the monster. How [...]
The Intersection of Small Things
I like unexpected patterns, the ways in which seemingly unrelated threads might find themselves woven together. There’s a beauty in the small details. In the ways in which one thing informs another. Sometimes through sound. Sometimes through history. The mind forms associations, building both practical and improbable bridges, linking words and elements of the world. [...]
35 amazing science fair projects
Update: Oooops… Threw this online in a hurry this a.m. when there was no other post, but it seems I’ve been punk’d. At least some of these are photoshopped, if this is any indication. So, these may or may not be actual projects, but at least the kid with the orange spiky hair seems to [...]
