No Gym, but a Condo Library
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
Old, and then Some
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in library Tags: Cooperstown, NY
From upstate New York, from Cooperstown, this one-room schoolhouse with a library of books. So cool.
A closer look shows that the titles include both School District Library, School Library, and random other publishers.
Sample list of titles
- History of Philosophy (vol 1, no 174)
- History of insects (vol 2, no 7)
- Ancient and Modern Egypt (no 34)
- James’s Chivalry and the Crusades (no 26)
- Barrow’s Life of Peter the Great (no 35)
- Russells’ Life 0f Cromwell (vol 1, no 56)
Can you decipher other titles?
So Many Fish in the Sea
13 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in animals, books Tags: Barnes and Noble, goldfish
A recent visit to the local Barnes and Noble was almost as good as a trip to the pet store. On the Young Adult table were no less than four books with goldfish on the cover.
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt;
- Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper;
- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan; and
- The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
I read the last two and liked Counting by 7s the most.
Talking Teddy
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in iPad, NYC Technology Summit Tags: Bluebee Pals, disturbing, ipad, plushies, stuffed animals
When I saw this display at the NYC school technology summit last week, I was mesmerized. Whether by fear or delight, cannot say. Yes, these are talking stuffed animals called Bluebee Pals. Children will love them.
The animals move their mouths to speak what is on the iPad (or sing, chant, moan, growl, etc.) and they sway their little bodies and shuffle their limbs.
Here are additional videos:
The animals come with their own apps, and can speak anything that is on the iPad.
Frog
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Animation, Ish, Scholastic
This is a demonstration of a making a frog jump using the software Animation-Ish. It is running at 8X speed.
I saw it at Scholastic Corporation HQ in SOHO.
Fancy Piano
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
I saw this today. It came with its own donation label and piece of ribbon from the installation ceremony.
Here is the view from the front.
This is the label on the bench. Are you familiar with any of these organizations?
Running Fast, Getting Nowhere
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in 3D World Tags: avatar, glitch
Did you ever feel that you were running fast, but still standing in one place? These 3D World avatars must know exactly what that feels like.
Piano Lift
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
This piano is in the auditorium, right next to the stage. Which is a pretty logical place for it to be, when you think about it. Music, stage, theater, etc.
Behind it is a wheelchair lift, the kind designed to get wheelchair-bound students from the seating area up onto the stage. Which is also a pretty Americans-with-Disabilities-Act kind of thing, too.
Yet here is the rub: the auditorium is on the third floor of the school and there are NO ELEVATORS in the school.
So how is a wheelchair user even going to make it to the third-floor auditorium?!?
That is why the piano is blocking the lift, which is never used and was probably part of the stipulations for getting an auditorum built in the first place.
Orange Shirts, Cloudy Skies, V-Formation
19 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in Manhattan, STEM Tags: 2019 STEM Fair, Intrepid
Almost the entire district 75 staff met to oversee the 5th annual STEM Fair, this year held at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
Here is a view of Manhattan from the flight deck. That one skyscraper in the background is much too high for anyone’s good.
Here is a view of the D75 staff wearing orange shirts, standing in V-formation, not unlike a flock of geese, or, more appropriately, a squadron of 1942 TBM-3E Avengers.
