life
0C
Thursday, 18 July 2013 @ 7:36am
This is what my weather widget claimed the temperature was when I woke up my computer (and after all the bits and bobs had caught up) at 7:30something in the morning.
Get stuffed this is Perth >_<
On Cars 2
Thursday, 13 June 2013 @ 8:45pm
[first scene - spy movie sendup]
8yo: how do they get all that stuff on the car? It’s not big enough.
[at some point during sweeping cinematographic scenes]
8yo: how do cars grow? How do cars make stuff anyway?
Husband: …you’re thinking too much into a movie that has talking cars.
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The Quest for an Approximation of a Primer pt1: base system
Thursday, 25 April 2013 @ 9:14pm
[pretty much all the images I had in here were hotlinked and they’ve all vanished because they’re extremely outdated models by this point]
The “Primer”: a fictional computer (“book”) in a work of fiction called “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson. It is carted about by the child and absorbs information from its surroundings and uses that information to construct appropriate learning experiences for the child in a narrative fashion.
There's a problem with your Google+ profile
Thursday, 18 April 2013 @ 5:16pm
Dear Google
bek is part of my real name. I am currently running under the assumption that it was either my initials (of my real surname) or my handle (ryivhnn, which I use on Youtube, Artician, deviantART and as a username on the Diaspora pod I’m on, though the display name there is bek) that triggered WASPobot as I hope your code isn’t so defective that you would ping me for a string that was entirely your construction (all I did was choose that particular display).
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Friday, 12 April 2013 @ 8:51pm
[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]
Last week and a bit have been slack and uncoordinated partially due to Easter and mostly due to the sleeping pattern going seriously out of whack resulting in myself and the kids going to bed way too late (me because I was staying up late to finish stuff off and also to make sure the bigs were asleep before turning out their light, and them because I have no idea).
Four
Sunday, 3 March 2013 @ 2:43pm
I have this gorgeous little boy. This one right here. Recently, he turned 4.
The day he turned 4, I teased JJ about feeling old. We missed kung fu training so I could cook a sausage stew for his birthday dinner (JJ is perfectly capable of making sausage stew I think, but the kids seem to think he doesn’t do it right). He wanted to go to the zoo on his birthday but because it was on an adults at kids’ prices day, we put off to the weekend so JJ could come too.
Resumption of the tracking training
Monday, 18 February 2013 @ 8:13pm
It’s been a while but we’re slowly getting back into it.
A few days ago I took an old sock (tucked into the waistband of my shorts to help with scenting) and Tali’s giant rope bone to the footy oval and we did a couple of easy tracks to see if he remembered how to do it. He had exactly no trouble remembering how to do it, and the fact it was a black and grey sock on green grass probably didn’t hurt. He can at least use both his eyes and nose at the same time and even managed to find it when I draped it over the fence above his head.
Eight
Sunday, 30 December 2012 @ 10:54pm
That’s how old my Little Big Boy is.
My goofy scrawny scrawnlet with a prodigious appetite and no apparent storage area chose to go to Maylands Water Park for his birthday (aka “The water park we went to for [his friend]’s birthday”) where he had a round of mini golf with Daddy:
He lost because ‘Daddy and his calcubrain’
fyn's silly season wishlist
Thursday, 20 December 2012 @ 1:06pm
In no particular order:
no more massacres (that’s everything from American schools to mass murders politically correctly defined as “war”) free quality education for everyone (including how it’s received) equal access to resources for everyone marriage equality for everyone everyone for everyone Happy solstice/theAbysmal New Year/Yule/Christmas/end of the world/whatever you celebrate at this time :)
Rainy day
Wednesday, 12 December 2012 @ 3:20pm
You can still play outside. They spent half an hour out there, then 3yo came in as he was cold. The big two followed 15mins later, tired and happy and telling me that it was awesome and I’d missed out :) They’ve had a nice warm bath and are now playing video games and looking forward to sausage stew for dinner. The end of the world is nigh and it’s a great time to be a kid