School
Posted By Kathleen David on June 22, 2004
Ariel finished her last exam yesterday and now is starting her summer vacation. She has all sort of things she wants to do this summer most are local and do not involve us driving her anywhere. Also she is at an age and lives in an area where bikes are used to get around. So she can go to the library to her hearts content. The way she has been blowing through books she wants to read, it
“I was on a beach in Florida and reading about the cold Russian winter. I would look up occasionally to warm up.”
That’s a great line, a great image, and a perfect evocation of how books and summer merge together. And how we merge with them.
My summer memories are more evocative of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Most people don’t really remember that until the 80’s a lot of the south, where I live, was still very much rural. Also, that classic computer game, Pong, was still more of an arcade game than anything. When I graduated from high school. That’s only about thirty years ago. It’s funny to think that there are people who don’t realize that we haven’t always had CD players and don’t know what a record player is, or a record for that matter.
“It’s funny to think that there are people who don’t realize that we haven’t always had CD players and don’t know what a record player is, or a record for that matter.”
Try teaching teenagers for a living. My HS graduation is closer to 20 years ago than thirty, but either way going into teaching makes your illusions shatter reeeeeeeal fast. 🙂 I always assume they don’t know what things like records are, so that I can be pleasantly surprised when a few of them indignantly inform me otherwise.
TWL
“Daddy, is it true Paul McCartney used to be in a band?”
You know Tim, you ought do do a show and tell with a record player and a record. show them the record and actually explain how the thing works.
You could tie it into how it esentially hasn’t changed since Edison invented the original phonograph, then go on to point out that compact discs pretty much work in the same way except they use lasers instead of a phonograph needle.
Except for the fact that it’s “cooler” to use a laser instead of a diamond needle that hits the grooves in a record, there really hasn’t been that much of a technological advancement.
I love history.
There used to be this program on The Learning Channel that explained how things were connected. It was kind of like playing the Kevin Bacon game. Wish I could remember the name.
EClark-
Was it called “Connections”? I use to watch that on PBS and thought it was brilliant.
Kath
Darn, a name that simple and I couldn’t get it! You’re right Kath. The guy went on to do another one called Connections 2.