Bob Flynn

Gaming as a learning platform is a net positive in my view, as you teach learners in broader ways. Especially when it comes to problem solving.

But daily or weekly use in K-2 seems like overkill.

Totally get that. Honestly the accessibility advantages devices like iPads provide are incredible. Though concerning ADHD I’ve read devices with things like YouTube unlocked can be a distraction nightmare.

I’m mostly critiquing the near universal ‘get in as early as possible’ idea around computers.

Devices now are easier to use than the computers I learned on as a teen in the 90s. I’m digitally literate, media literate. I never took typing (figured that out later just fine)

No weekly exposure to screens during my elementary years required.

Didn’t have my own computer until college.

I’ve never understood the push to get kids in front of screens as early as possible, so they can be ready for the digital world.

We had a computer lab when I was in middle school (not kindergarten), no laptops. One family computer at home when I was 16.

And here I am living and working just fine.

okay NETFLIX listen up. y’all should order a FULL SEASON of MYSTERY CUDDLERS. now.

Turns out that while horses are famously hard to draw, their mouths are actually quite fun!

Oh this came out *really good. Wow!

And video games have gotten better? Yeah, people would probably want to hear about that. People love video games in the 80s. But you still have to play them with hand-held controllers.

That's it. No flying cars. No Mars colonies. No cure for cancer. So fusion plants.

We have mini-computers baked into phones that can connect to the internet (which on their own are pretty amazing tech), but those are mostly used to discuss what powerful stupid people say.

Oh, and GPS is cool.

Imagining myself traveling back in time. Say, 1982—not far. And people ask me what it's like? And I tell them about how this thing called the internet exists where people (especially people who run big tech companies) say laughably dumb things hourly, and the entire world then has to talk about it.

(Or the One Piece Floating Restaurant)

Did they already drop the HP Main Tower 76454 from the deal? I see it in your screenshot but not on the site.

I definitely understand the visceral reaction to a headline like this. 10 kids *is a lot. And to think you injected your kid with something that could have been responsible for killing them. That’s awful.

But why does it not register as ‘accidental’ like so many unlocked firearms instances?

But more seriously, visit any old graveyard on the East Coast and it would be immediately clear how common childhood and infant death was pre-vaccines and public health measures.

Wait until they hear about guns.

Another great write-up!

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Donald Duck balloon

Donald Duck balloon

Donald Duck balloons from Macy's past.

Evil Donald is the first Donald, from 1935.
The other from 1962, I believe.

Vabysmo may cause retinal detachment.

Ah, the magical Honmoon to keep them out. Gotcha.

Happy Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade!
Today day we celebrate giant balloons, Broadway musicals, KPop Demon Hunters, and pharmaceutical commercials!

The wing, yep. Love Magnolia.

Curious about what the unintended subtext you picked up on was.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Beautifully written & reasoned 3 min read. “To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵

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Remarkably modern looking, too!

Ouch, poor fella!

Lady & the Tramp Doll Houses Well, not quite. These three dimensional models were built to help Disney layout artists visualize the perspective for specific inte...

And if you're curious, here are some photos of those set models.

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Everything from the dainty kitchen and its finely carved wooden swinging door to the imposing staircase with the stately grandfather clock anchored at the bottom were painstakingly created to stage the horizontal world seen by the canine stars of the film. "Claude Coats was trained in architecture so was particularly good at giving credibility to the setting. Coats liked to build models so he could see how things would translate dimensionally; " remarked Imagineer Tony Baxter.

It all so clearly demonstrates the amount of skill and allowance for study. That someone with a background in architecture and a hobby for building miniatures would then be the same person who made the paintings.

As Imagineer Tony Baxter pointed out, "When you look at the backgrounds, they create pools of light where the action is going to take place." To help get a sense of the story from a "dog's eye view", background artist Claude Coats who supervised the art work on the house built an actual scale model of the interior. The model was built to the scale of one and a half inches to a foot. This set included painted wallpaper.

At the start I mentioned the artist took such care with the home interiors that they may as well have built a real house.
Well, they did! (Claude Oats) Imagine caring so much about getting a painting right that you carve and build it out of real materials first.

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dog pound

Even the dog pound wagon get's a beautiful painting set within an autumn street. The paint-chipped interior for silhouettes to show a sad moment.