Since I’m sure you all love school work as much as I do I thought I’d share today’s assignment. I needed to create an orthographic image of something so I took this sketch
and drew this.
I actually really liked this assignment. In an orthographic drawing everything has to line up from one picture to the next (the body of the car is always the same width, the top is the same height, the opening is the same width, ect.) so this project required a fair bit of precision. It was sort of an intersection between art and math, my two favorite subjects.
Category: School
A Clerihew or Two.
Hey cats, better get your coffee and sunglasses ’cause it’s time for some poetry, man! Brought to you by the brother’s beatniks blog.
On that note here are few clerihews I wrote for school. A clerihew is a type of poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. They’re very simple poems, really, the first line is the name of some famous person who the poem is about and the rhyme scheme is AABB. Those are really the only requirements. And so without further ado my clerihews!
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Converted to Catholic from Anglican
In his books he said protestants fail
To recognize the good of ale.
Mr. George Washington
Was a wealthy farmer’s son,
But he decided to deal with men in battle
So he wouldn’t have to deal with cattle.
G.K. Chesterton
Is a famous Englishmen
When he needed to fill his coffers
He became a Catholic author.
(I know two Chesterton poems is excessive, but I couldn’t resist).
And finally…
Edmund Bentley Clerihew
Needed something new to do
He said, “I’ll never have to work again
If I write poems of famous men!”
Well that’s it I hope you dig these poems Daddy-o!
Snow Day!
Or should I say hurricane day? Yep, hurricane Mathew is barreling for Florida perilously promising all kinds of problems, but I can’t help feeling excited because my classes are cancelled for the rest of the week!
I know, I sound like a twelve year old…
A Pun for You
Veronica says, “Here’s a measuring pun for you. I estimate this chapter on measuring will be fun!”
A Polarizing Problem
I was helping Nathaniel with his Algebra today when we came upon a problem about converting from rectangular form to polar form. Suddenly it occurred to me, why is it called polar form? I mean rectangular form I get, but Polar Form, how does that work?!? It doesn’t have any polars. It doesn’t even look like a polar! Did they start using this system exclusively in the North or South Pole? Or maybe some guy named Polar invented it, or perhaps polar bears just really love using this coordinate system.
Bird Found Alive With One Leg.
I was walking to my convertible from school yesterday when I spied a large bird loping awkwardly through the grass. Normally I would have thought nothing of this as I live in Florida and birds half your size are as common as alligators (that’s really common), but something was different about this bird, something was off, something was missing…Oh, it was his right leg.
Yep, somehow this fellow had broken off this essential appendage just a few inches below the flesh of the drumstick. Still despite his crippled condition he fights bravely to survive (I mean the only other option is die…so maybe it’s not quite so brave…).
Now you’d think a one legged bird would be limited to a life of perpetual flying punctuated by brief rest on his singular perch, but you would be wrong. if you think such a creature can walk you would also be wrong (you can’t walk with one leg it’s physically impossible). Instead of either option such unfortunate avians hop away from danger. Observe…
I like to think that this poor fellow forever forfeited his ability to walk in some gruesome fight for life and limb (well he half won) with some fearsome predator like the Florida panther or a vicious alligator. Or perhaps he was rock climbing and a rock slide trapped his leg so he had to peck it off. But I’m afraid that in reality he probably lost his leg in the more common and mundane way, hunting great white whales.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid we’ll never know the true story behind this bird’s broken off bones. He flew away before I could ask him.
I would have let him have the book rights.
(These videos can be seen combined on YouTube here).