Carter and Nathan's Room

In the continuing cARTer series the latest creation is a drawing of the boys room.

First the model


Now the drawing

He has an eye for colour to be sure. In the middle is the window with clouds, sun and a bird. He drew his bed with the red bedspread but we are unclear as to the reason for the fish swimming in his room. The fish are Dory and Nemo in case you were wondering.

Geeky Gathering

This little piece of technology is the TI-83 produced by Texas Instruments. The Math 12 program in BC requires a graphing calculator be used on the provincial exam and we have been using TI-83+ at our school for 10 years now. So why am I writing about it now? Glad you asked.

Tomorrow I and another staff member depart for Shanghai to attend the CaoYang No.2 High School Math Conference and TI Workshop 2009. 2 days of sharing how many geeky things you can do with this calculator to better the teaching of students. Yup .. should be a real humdinger. Actually I'm kind of excited by it and 2 days in Shanghai is nothing to sneeze at.

By the way if you don't have one of these technical marvels there are still some things you can do with a regular calculator that will amaze and wow your friends.

I'm A Nut

Heard this song on my nephew Marshall's Ipod this summer. Been humming it off and on ever since.

Catchy Tune of the Day

With all due respect to Eric Idle of Monty Python fame I give you Clint Black's rendition of The Galaxy Song.

A Picture of Daddy

Carter drew this picture of me (and clouds and grass) at school last week. It's pretty cool to know that your kids do think of you once in a while.

Ao Te Man!

Ao Te Man is how the Chinese pronounce Ultraman - a Japanese sci-fi collection of superheroes. Carter and Nathan are absolutely fixated with every Ultraman character (they are many Di Jia, Cai Wen, etc) and they know all the moves. They spend most nights watching UM and then choreographing fight scenes. There is the occasional cry from Nathan as Carter simply refuses to be any of the monster characters (Guai Shou) but for the most part it occupies them for hours.

For Halloween (yeah I haven't updated in awhile eh?) they both had to be Ao Te Man characters ... as posted on Craig's blog here it was a great event but mind numbingly cold and by the end of the hour of trick or treating many kids refused to leave the warmth of the car.
My Ultramen