Tag: school

  • Scribbles for Grammar

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    Douglas has been playing this game called Scribblenauts that I’m really enjoying. His character gets missions to do minor helpful things for people he encounters and larger heroic things for super-heroes who summon him. To play, Douglas types in nouns to conjure different items he wants. He can also click on objects and characters to…

  • Ink on my hands

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    I started a new project this week. Writing every day for November reminded me how much I love creative work (the invisible kind I do at school, but also the kinds with more concrete outcomes), so over the weekend I bought a sketchbook. It’s my first sketchbook since high school, and I’m nervous each time…

  • I asked a bunch of people, “What is MM?”

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    “D and D without all the papers and things to remember. And it changes depending on who’s telling the story. Crated by people who were astonishingly bored and had an astonishing knowledge of D and D and medieval times and magic. It’s a combination of what the DM wants to have happen and what the…

  • WikiTrails from 11/4

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    Even with Ryan upstate, @timotree and I ran WikiTrails in its normal Tuesday time slot. We used the “random article” button to generate our start points, and we took turns choosing our end points. We had a full half hour scheduled, and I expected to get one or two rounds in before GeoGuesser time. We…

  • Why I’m cool with day-long Doctor Who marathons…

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    Yesterday, Adin came in and offered to host a 5-hour Doctor Who marathon. The projector glow mingled with the hum of recorded voices, and the resulting spell pulled passers-by through the door to the Red Room. Some kids powered through the whole marathon while others dropped in and out as they pleased. I was invited…