My son had a whole week of good behavior at school. He’s had some struggles adjusting to kindergarten. We pulled out all the stops, adjusted our schedule so he can get more sleep, implemented a new rewards system and collaborated with his teachers and crossed our fingers.
It appears to be paying off!
He’s before my time (I was born in 1983) but I used to watch The Carol Burnett Show in syndication when I was a kid. I agree he’s one of the greats.
Yes, these (puppet Marimba players) popped into my YouTube feed for no particular reason, and there seems to be more than a few. The musicians are skilled, and of course the puppets make all the difference. But I can only take so much marimba at a time.
We’re sitting at the stop light and my son pipes up from the backseat:
When the light is green, you go
When the light is red, you stop
But what do you do when the light turns blue
With orange and lavender spots?
There is deep satisfaction in watching him fall in love with the poetry of Shel Silverstein. And more than a tad fitting that the banged-up copy he’s reading is the one I borrowed from the elementary library in second grade and forgot to return (I would return it now, but I just can’t resist waiting 42 years. In seven years, I will deliver it along with a fat check to the school’s library.)
I don’t remember that poem at all… but I knew as soon as I saw it who the poet had to be.
For me, yesterday, the brand-new D&D club at school that I’m moderating hosted an event open to all (not just D&D players) of collaborative storytelling (no rules, just the student leader describing the scene and asking everyone what they’d do). It was a little slow getting started, but was a big hit by the end, and there were close to 20 students there.
As so often happens with these, an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called The Cheney Vase. Darren McGavin played a real lowlife sleazeball, Carolyn Jones his sorta girlfriend, and Patricia Collinge (Birdie from Little Foxes) as the frail old lady he was trying to steal from. The way she outfoxed him made me laugh out loud.
Okay, I give up. What’s the reference to? Shel Silverstein and 42?
( I know that 42 is, of course, the answer to the meaning of life. But that’s Hitchhiker’s Guide stuff, not Silverstein.)
Oh what do I do, oh what do I do?
This library book is 42 years overdue
I admit that it’s mine
But I can’t pay the fine —
Should I turn it in
Or hide it again?
What do I do?
What do I do?
I watch A Christmas Story each year.
This made me smile today.
The Goes Wrong Show gets posted here from time to time and this one was served up to me by youtube yesterday. I was cracking up just about the entire way through.
I really need to start a (or dig up and continue an old) 3D Printing thread. In the mean time…my mom asked me to make some boxes for something she’s giving my nieces. I’ve made these boxes in the past for similarly small things, but I’m really happy with how these turned out. Between the multi-colored bows and the ornament cards, I’m quite happy with myself. Also, they’re meant to be ‘puzzle’ boxes since you have to turn the bow to remove the top.
Nice ! Did you design them, and are they available on thingiverse.com or
similar ?
No, I didn’t design them. Those boxes have been around in a while and come in all different sizes and shapes. There’s tons of remixes of them.
And here’s the ornament/cards I used. It’s a SCAD file so you can change most of the basic parameters to your liking.
ETA, if you make them, don’t tell people they’re ‘puzzle boxes’, in fact when I hand one to someone, I usually, explicitly, tell them to ‘turn the bow to the left’. If someone treats this like a puzzle to be solved, they’re going to snap it apart. It’s not going to stand up to a lot of rough handling.
Thanks. Another reason to buy a 3d printer !!
Today, in one of my classes, a student, on solving a problem, proudly sang “Anything you can do, I can do better”. So of course I followed by singing the next line. I was in that play in middle school.
Wow, that’s really nice to hear.