{"id":3449,"date":"2010-04-12T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:56:24","slug":"doing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/doing-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t been blogging, I&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching Kinetics 9-12pm and 1-4pm takes a lot out of you, especially when there are always some challenging kids in the group. Those 2 weeks are done. There will be another round shortly!<\/p>\n<p>Tutoring twice a week to a 3rd grader and 4th grader. Last week we played Flash Card battles, it was cool. I&#8217;d hold up multiplication flash cards in my fist and throw punches at him from across the room. When he answered them, I&#8217;d throw myself back across the room. Then we&#8217;d switch sides. Yes kids, math can be fun ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Doing a fabrication project for a company team building project. They got 80% through designing and building it with my help. Now I&#8217;m doing the other 80% to finish up.<\/p>\n<p>Doing another fabrication project for a person at the Crucible: making a 2 stage foot pedal for his glass working torch<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t told many about this but I&#8217;m STILL trying to get the SWARM robots back from <a href=\"http:\/\/techkriti.org\">Techkriti<\/a> in Kanpur India after 7 freaking weeks. The local shipper, Airlift Global has been dragging their feet the whole time. I&#8217;ve been calling several times per week for most of these 7 weeks. On Friday I escalated it by writing to the Dean of Student Affairs and the Techkriti Festival Chairman. That <em>seems<\/em> to have gotten them going but the next step is to call my local federal official, Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working with a local machine shop, helping to get their computers working well, hunting down viruses, wrangling giant Hurco CNC mills, fixing internets and intranets, and VoIPing.<\/p>\n<p>Been hunting down a few more people to teach at the Crucible. I got some very impressive people responding to my call!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making the lesson plan for a computer controlled flame effects class that&#8217;s starting in 2 weeks!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to source products and get a web site for the T. Pen.<\/p>\n<p>While Charlotte and I are very good friends, we&#8217;re not dating any more. I&#8217;ve been looking for a relationship. I&#8217;ve been using OKCupid and enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>Been recovering from a hard drive crash. I don&#8217;t -think- I lost any data. But seriously, how do you tell? I&#8217;ve got hundreds of gigs to protect. Considering RAID 5 in software on Win XP Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Been working on <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/marnias-vivoliths\/\">Vivoliths<\/a> with Marnia. There&#8217;s an art show in June that we&#8217;re going to have them set up for! They&#8217;ll chirp kinda like crickets, light up as if they&#8217;re bioluminescent and react to people&#8217;s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Been working on a mechanical heart art project with Schuyler. It&#8217;s going to beat in response to your body heat when you hold it in your hands or against your chest.<\/p>\n<p>Phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t been blogging, I&#8217;ve been doing. Teaching Kinetics 9-12pm and 1-4pm takes a lot out of you, especially when there are always some challenging kids in the group. Those 2 weeks are done. There will be another round shortly! Tutoring twice a week to a 3rd grader and 4th grader. 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