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I had a great experience today. At lunch time I met my friend David at the Vt. school for the Deaf in St. Albans to do a jolts and volts show for the kids there. Dave and I have done this a couple of other times in places across the state.. though this was our first in abut 4 years.. and our first in St. Albans. At this point , Dave knows most of the show and does it himself.. in ASL.. Dave can’t hear, but reads lips pretty well.. so we tag team on the presentation… basically I jump in when he’s about to electrocute himself. One of the interpreters helps me follow what he and the kids are saying.. after a few min, I forget that we’re not actually all speaking out loud.. it’s very cool. These kids were so in to science. They had already gotten some of the science concepts in class.. so they were asking all the right questions. We improvise for the few parts of the show that have sound.. I had a PC based oscilloscope program showing the sound waveforms on a video projector.. and I had one of Sam’s old guitar amps to shake the table to the sound. That way the kids can feel with their bodies.. works pretty well.

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near the end of the show, dave was hooked up to the vandegraaf and reached out and shocked me .. on purpose .. on the back… I was so surprised I swore loudly … I instantly covered my mouth in embarrassment.. A half a second later the interpreters were all laughing so hard they almost fell out of their chairs.. The kids.. thankfully.. didn’t notice a thing and were watching Dave..

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if a scientist swears in the classroom and no one is there to hear… did he really swear ?

nite all, nite sam

-me

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