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St Mary, Yelverton, Norfolk
I spent a pleasant day in the company of my friend Peter Stephens exploring the churches between Norwich and Loddon. Apart from a couple to the south of the Beccles road they were all open, and it was a pleasure to explore a succession of small, unassuming but welcoming churches. I last visited them about ten years ago, and although not much has changed it was pleasing to see that a couple of them were in safer hands than had seemed on my previous visit.
I came back through Norwich and caught the train back to Ipswich with dozens of disconsolate Norwich City fans who had just seen their team lose at home to West Bromwich Albion, leaving them perilously close to the drop. On the way back on the train I took part in a three-way conversation with my son in Amsterdam and my daughter in Madrid. Ten years ago, when they were little and I first explored these churches, I don't think I would have thought such a thing likely, or even possible.
The following day, Norwich City sacked their manager Chris Hughton.
If Coding Games is the New Literacy, Then...., Dr. Idit Harel Caprton, President, World Wide Workshop; How to "Get Better"; Approaches to LGBTQ-relevant Video Games. Robert Yang, MFA Parsons The New School Design; Designing Educational Games, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Director of EdGE, TERC and Scott Kirk, CEO, Game Gurus; MEMENTO MORI !!, Dr. James M. Bower, CEO, Numedon Inc.
Ok well i haven't talked extensively for a while so i'll take a moment to do so.
First of all this pic was created using a picture i took of myself and then "warholized" using fd's flickr toys (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/)
Also, for all you mac users: i just started using Safari again (i know lame) but the reason is because i discovered a program called "PicLens" which makes Flickr 10 times more fun (which is just what i need considering how much time i've been spending on it as it is).
What this program does is finds all the pictures on a page and turns them into a full screen slide show. It sounded a bit cumbersome at first but trust me, it's great! Here's a link for those too lazy to google it: www.piclens.com/safari/
actually not that i just analyzed the link turns out they now have it for firefox and who knows what else... just change the "/safari" in the link to "/firefox"
Anyways, happy Saturday everyone!
If Coding Games is the New Literacy, Then...., Dr. Idit Harel Caprton, President, World Wide Workshop; How to "Get Better"; Approaches to LGBTQ-relevant Video Games. Robert Yang, MFA Parsons The New School Design; Designing Educational Games, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Director of EdGE, TERC and Scott Kirk, CEO, Game Gurus; MEMENTO MORI !!, Dr. James M. Bower, CEO, Numedon Inc.
Ranting about how the computers were taking over and we were becoming docile slaves to the government, who is controlling us with iPods... Check out the video HERE
As Mr. Bill Cosby likes to say, "Those of you with children, you understand."
So, last night me and my child had to do a worksheet. Why me? Because if I leave my child without supervision, the worksheet won't be done by July. Again, those of you with children, you understand. Unless I sit over him (literally, because I sit on the desk) and repeat, approximately once half a minute, "Erase this and write it properly," and "GIT GOIN! Write!" nothing will get done.
Last night's worksheet involved talking about a book, and since my child now only (ok, mainly) reads Star Wars books, and Obi Wan figures in them a lot, I had me a Jedi on my mind. And to prevent me from strangling a minor, I started sketching. I only had a pen and scrap paper, so it's a VERY rough sketch, but I wanted to show it as an excuse to talk about how ARGH frustrating the oft-mentioned child is.
He writes "o" instead of "a", for example. I tell him, "Erase, it has to be "a"." He erases and writes "o" again. I tell him, "Duuuude, WHAT did I say?" He looks down, stares, staaaaaares, staaaaaaaares, goes, "AOOWWW, MAAAAAN!" and bangs his head on the desk.
I'm not kidding.
I say, "Just correct it!" He erases "o" and writes "b". I mentally go, "WTF?" but aloud I say, "DUDE!" He looks at me like a mouse looks at a more sadistic cat and does, "Whaaat..." I go, "Look at what you wrote." He looks and goes, "AOOOWWW, MAAAAAN!" I bark, "No banging head!" He looks at me like I'm not only especially sadistic, but also a pervert.
No, I understand, banging one's head on the desk must be an important part of homework process, but I draw a line at bodily harm.
And because he has to argue with me a lot, the bloody homework takes us about 3 times as long as it should. Then he freaks out that he doesn't have time to play... Dur.
If Coding Games is the New Literacy, Then...., Dr. Idit Harel Caprton, President, World Wide Workshop; How to "Get Better"; Approaches to LGBTQ-relevant Video Games. Robert Yang, MFA Parsons The New School Design; Designing Educational Games, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Director of EdGE, TERC and Scott Kirk, CEO, Game Gurus; MEMENTO MORI !!, Dr. James M. Bower, CEO, Numedon Inc.
Check your shoulder, not because you're scared but because you look behind you the prepare you for whats ahead. History repeats itself, if you want to see and use the future, look and learn from the past. The past may be scary or uncomfortable, but it makes us who we are...without our loved ones, enemies, good times and bad times...we might not be here. You might not be reading this.
Slow down and relax...Life is good.
-Boaz
Hij = en blijft een engelganger?
He is and always will be an angel-goer?
The mysterious "eneco ranter" (that's my working name for this anonymous person). One of the last inscriptions I found. His graffiti was intelligent, poetic and mysterious. More here: