David's Blog

A post in the NY Times made its way to my attention:

For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’ – NYTimes.com.

So is it a controversial concept? A sign of the degradation of youth, or, a brighter future?

Like anything, the wrong person, viewpoint, or mentality, can make a good thing bad. Is hugging wrong, no. Can it be? eh, chocolate can be bad if consumed in excess.

Is excess wrong?

Yes.

Hugging in excess is wrong, let the definition of excess be construed by individual circumstances.

Let the kids hug.

I am a frequent presence at a friend’s house, he has three kids. The youngest girl has a hard time keeping up with the other two. The other day they were playing with sticks, as swords and she had received the ‘short end of the stick’ wielding a small stick not more than 6″ long. The other two had nice long (and painstakingly blunted and sanded) sticks.

The kids were entertaining themselves, running around with a short stick with the others dashing from tree to tree striking each with a satisfying whack! The short stick gave a less than acceptable tap, at each tree and she was clearly distraught, and not having much fun.

In a fit of frustration she finally threw her little stick to the ground cursing it. I quickly scooped it up and asked why she had thrown such a special stick away? she scoffed at me and pointed out its obvious short falls, while storming off to sulk. I quickly grabbed a marker close by and adorned the stick with mathematical symbols, common to most adults, but mysterious and occult to children.

Once she had seen that her stick was, in fact, special, newly adorned in puzzling runes. she was eager to get it back, especially when I explained that is was now a magical wand, not just a short stick.

She could identify a couple of the symbols on her new wand, the obvious; plus and minus, multiplication, and division, but there were many more she had never seen before including,

• logic symbols,
• Pi ,
• aleph ,
• summation .

The questions started pouring in!
and of course the other two soon came to me asking for runes on their larger sticks, I explained to them that big sticks were for hitting and smaller sticks were for magic (or in this case a very long math lesson)

I actually taught a 5 year old the simplest principle of Pi! and she had a ton of fun learning, kids are awesome! My favorite part is I get to go home after playing with them… and their parents have to put them to bed.

I met up with a friend from ‘The Guard’, who is studing for his comercial pilots licence. His flight was grounded due to weather and he is stuck in GA for the night.
we met at Virginia Highlands for a drink and made our first stop at ‘Dark Horse Tavern’ which is known for it’s live band karioke.
After an apatizer, a couple of drinks, some catching up and a couple revived old stories, we made our way to anoutjer establishment where I was able to use my drinks app for the first time.
I wanted a coffee drink, but didn’t know what to order, so with the use of my iPhone I scrolled through the list of drinks with the ingrediant-coffee, sucked up some old fashioned shyness and ordered a ‘Hot Buttery Bush’ which wasn’t so bad.

I dont know if the cost of these cards is worth the possibility of return, but if your looking for a job or a client… but they sure are inspiring.

100 (Really) Creative Business Cards | Webdesigner Depot.

In order to keep updated with life we tend to turn to calendars to keep our scheduals in check. Ive decided to take it a step further and post my Google calendar online, so now everyone can take a look at what im doing… I will be allowing certain people access to add/edit events on my calendar. but for the most part it is a view only link.
This calander syncs with my iPhone, so it is what I go by.