Ok, for a person who majored in art and is not particularly technical, I sure seem to attract a lot of computers. The school has a raft of original iMacs, most of which will run the most recent os with a little coaxing. So, I'm trying to set that up. They're slow, relatively speaking, but its not like the kids are planning to render a movie or something. The plan is just to introduce more up-to-date browsers so they can take advantage of more of the cool ed. stuff available online.
So Thing 1 and Thing 2 and I have been off to the lab pretty regularly lately. They are liking the time playing computer games while I do stuff. They also like that I project a movie for them when they get really bored and start fighting. Sigh, I am not terribly proud of my parenting in this respect, but hopfully this will be but a brief period in their lives. Here are some photos, this is so wildly unusual for me, I can't get over it. First, a view of my little spot in the middle of the lab where I made the image machine,
. Its not terribly pretty, but it gets the job done. The boy's ersatz theater is here 
. Then there's the army of computers waiting for me in the library: 
Fifteen on the librarian's counter, another 16 on tables around the room 
. I have no idea what these photos will look like in the blog. This is an experiment.
Meanwhile, once I get all the older iMacs set up, also pushing the previous lab eMacs out to the classes, I get to set up spiffy new new (as opposed to merely new) flat screen iMacs that aren't even in yet for this fall. Yee Ha!!
For the Kinder
I wanted to add these photos of Thing 1 and Thing 2 trying to look serious and meaningful in glamour shots of some recent Lego creations. The wanted them posted to the lego site, which I did, but the site wisely does not allow you to include pictures of humans. The guys were dissappointed, so here they are in their full glory, Thing 1 and his amazing Zipper 2000, and Thing 2 and his Zipper 32thousandmillion (ha! that will teach his brother!!)
Lest you get the idea that this computing precludes knitting, HA! Its amazing how many rounds one can do on a sock while the computers are uploading some brains. Well, fewer rounds than I had hoped, but progress is being made on the STR solstice slip.
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