These days our planes are usually based over in Plattsburgh. They come over to North Hanger when we have special visitors. Today Alia SN2 came over for a visit. She was parked in the hanger where I work. Its nice to have her back here..
What a beauty !
nite all, nite sam
-me
Another beutiful morning. Dianen and I got out for a quick hike in the beutiful snow.. before its supposed to dissapear due to coming rain
Around midday I met up with my friends Beth, Shannon. Lelani , Rayan and Biannca who were working with some kids on some cool science visualization toys that Beth had found. One of the projects used mechanical devices to show circuit concepts. . A kid (or adult) could build simple mechanical circuits to understand the physics of what was going on.
THe second set used falling ball bearings to explain digital logic.You could build up simeple logic circuits and understand the boolean calculation that was going on.
For both of these , The constructed projects were beautiful and fun to play with.
We had several kids there evaluating the learnign toys.
I think these would be great to use in small groups. I’m hoping to get muy friends Greg’s view of them when i’m back in at work
nite all, nite sam
-me
I’ve been super happy with the response to our Alia ornaments. I had a little stand on our worktable where people could come by and get them. SInce the makerfaire I’ve collected another $500 which will be part of our Toys for Tots donation.
By the end of the week all but 3 of the 210 had found their way to someone’s tree.
That’s a happy thought ! 🙂
nite all, nite sam
Tonight after work Diane and I went to a memorial service for our friend Firefly (carol)’s husband Tom. He died this week of esophageal cancer. Firefly is on e of our burning man friends. She just showed up one day and started cleaning up the workspaces as we worked on fluffy. She was with us at build week on the Playa this summer. That’s when she told us about Tom’s illness.
I never met Tom…. though we got a sense of him though his Obit.
It was good meeting Carol and Tom’s sons at the memorial. We came on the late side.. many of our troop came through earlier. Its nice how experiences like burning man.. and projects like Fluffy bring people together. Its kinda like an extended family. I know Firefly felt the love.
We’ll keep Firefly and her family in our thoughts..
nite all, nite sam
-me