Aaron Smith @theartguy@is.aaronbsmith.com

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I was very responsible and did a shopping trip that certainly did not involve buying a 50 cent fidget spinner from one of those coin machines.

It spins pretty well, too.

Help I am looking at CNC Milling machines and the price seems to have come down a lot.

I booked one trip through AAA and now they think I need to buy new luggage every 2-3 weeks.

Haha, yeah, I'm not airing that laundry here.

All I will say is that regardless of the problematic issues of Google, it makes presenting the receipts a lot easier.

Returned from a field trip in time for a Formal Observation.

I think it went well. Post-Observation conference won't be until after Thanksgiving, though, so that's enough time for a creeping dread to build up.

Searched the abreviation for my school system on and it's clear why school's open: All the salt from upset students has been moved onto the roads to make sure there's no accumulation.

It's not even below freezing, but we're still getting the first snow of the school year.

Email was sent out yesterday saying the call for a delay or cancellation would be made by 5:30 AM. (As of that time school was set to open on time.)

It's 6:30 and the school website is down, likely from all the kids (And parents? And teachers?) reloading the page to see if they changed their mind.)

This amuses me while at the same time I cannot access certain tools while the site's down.

Oh, hello, orphaned works...

Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU's new Copyright Directive (adios, Despacito!) / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/11/12/canute-vs-youtube.html

There was an impromptu dance party.

The tiefling used thaumaturgy to try to scare something, but broke A LOT of glass by accident.

No one tosses a gnome ... except the dragonborn.

"The bookshelf does not respond."

#DnD
#OutOfContextDnD

"Finger Lights" are probably the most useless things I've ever wasted a dollar on...

Until I take them apart and have 3 LEDs & 9 batteries that I can use in a lesson on circuits.

To continue the metaphor:

If you want to burn down capitalism, fine. BUT, you'd darned well better have a system already in place for all the people who have to depend on that system to get by.

Or they're dead.

The fire that burned them will have been started by your match.

The rich will have another house ready to move into already. They might even be wealthier afterwards. ("Look at all this cheap property near my land...")

Put the match out and build some houses.

I think I struck a nerve last night among some anti-capitalists.

That's fine.

Tell me my students shouldn't be able to survive by doing what they love for the sake of "sticking it to the rich," in a way that does not, actually, stick it to the rich, and I will strike that nerve repeatedly and without remorse.

So many scream "burn it all down" while not thinking about whose homes are next door to that warehouse. Those smaller houses are much more flammable.