I have worked for the NYCDOE for over 30 years, and thankfully, not once did any of these situations occur.
In Emergency, Break Glass
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in district office, plants Tags: plants, terrarium
When a terrarium is overcrowded, the plants cannot grow to their full potential. Best practice is to repot the plants into new bigger containers. This terrarium was glass, so we had to use a hammer to break the glass and remove the plants!
Special soil for cacti and succulent plants (called Cactus Mix) is not too dense, so the water can drain out and the roots do not drown.
We carefully removed the glass bits that were stuck in the roots and soil before repotting.
Print Test Page Showdown!
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in desktop publishing, Macintosh, Windows Tags: print test page, Toshiba
You asked for it, and we did it. A recent office printer purchase was the perfect scenario to do the Mac versus Windows Print Test Page Competition, i.e., to test out the “print test page” function on the Mac and Windows printer system settings. Do they return the same results?
We printed to the Toshiba e-Studio3525AC printer/copier.
The test results are in!
Which do you think is the winner?
In terms of simple color and design, nothing beats Mac. However, in terms of useful information, including website printer location, Windows wins!
Picnic in the Park
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in 3D World Tags: 3D World, picnic, Prospect Park
The 3D World year-end meet and greet was a huge success.
We ate lunch, played football and frisbee, tossed beach balls, flew kites, raced with an egg in a spoon, and so much!
It js always great seeing the avatars in real life.
How to Dance in Ohio, in Battery Park City
18 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in autism, theater Tags: Stuyvesant
One of the actors — Conor Tague — from Broadway show “How to Dance in Ohio.” He came to a district event held at Stuyvesant high School.
Me me me ME me me me
11 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
These are the elements of a good vocal warmup. Now you know
811Q Machine, Technology and STEM Shop, Update
05 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in 811Q, panorama, plants, STEM
The 811Q machine shop has undergone a (partial) renovation. Most of the equipment in the front half of the room was replaced with horticulture materials, including four tower gardens. The back half is still a machine/wood shop.
Zoom in to get the panoramic view.
The End of 3D Printers
05 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in 3D Printing, 811Q, bubble wand
Did the title of the post get your attention? I refer to the “The End” text that a student 3D printed yesterday using a 3Doodler handheld 3D printer. That and other prints — especially bubble wands — are below.
Red Side Story Mistake – UPDATED
30 May 2024 Leave a comment
in writing Tags: Jasper Fforde
The sequel to Shades of Grey by Jasper FForde just came out and it is an excellent. No spoilers in this posting.
I found one text error and wrote to both Mr. Fforde and the publisher Soho Press (yet to get a response). Here is the email I sent:
“I love the new Jasper Fforde book Red Side Story and I found a text mistake that got past your editors. Details:
page 425
“To our right there were cliffs and rugged coastline which led to a headland about a mile away, and to our right there was more of the same — just with a headland perhaps six or seven miles distant.”
One of the two “our right”s should be an “our left.”
Edition is hardcover, 2024, Soho press inc, isbn 978-1-64129-628-1, usa printing.”
Do you think I will get a “thank you” in the corrected paperback release?
UPDATE
Jasper wrote me back! It was in my junk email folder (boo).
“Hi Charles.
Thanks for that – we’ll correct it (and the nine others!) for the paperback..
Glad you like the book.
Cheers
Jasper”
AI, but not Spellcheck
20 May 2024 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: canva, spelling
This Canva app is almost ready to bring my vision to life.
This is app is in a bit of a pickle, wouldn’t you say?
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