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So… I haven’t really posted in about 3 weeks. And I really do have a LOT to post about.
I spent a week in Austin, I got in contact with some dear old friends (Cindee and Al), I started my new job, and I may just have a baby on the way soon.
Well, as they say on LJ, no posting is life posting. This means.. if you ain’t hearing it here, then my life is either chugging along too busy for me to tell people about it; or.. I’m again dating a psycho who feels that my posting in LiveJournal is intentionally and personally hurting her.
(long story)
More soon. Really.
Wonderful link sent to me by gwywnnydd
An actual tangable update is in fact forthcoming… um… soonish.
Today it was reported that most 10th graders in Washington state can not pass the Math state expectiations.
I blame a severe lack of the good Sesame Street stuff. Oh sure, it still comes around in rotation (at least some of it)… but the good stuff… not as often.
Some favourites:
- 1-20 indian man with 4 arms:
- The pinball machine we all wanted
- My Martian Cutie (Number 9)
- The Ladybug Picnic.. and for those of you studying kaballah.. IN HEBREW!
- Trippy basic addition and subtraction to 5
- The alligator king (7)
- The animated rock tribe ritual of passage unto the realm of 12 actually kind of disturbing in reflection.
- Early scary computer counts to 4
- Let’s sing a song of 10
- These featured a clumsy baker taking a dive with X number of pastries. See if you can identify the baker. This was the only time you saw this mainstay of Sesame Street on screen.
- Personally, I wish I could find “Let’s sing a song of 9” because it is the first appearance of Rowlf the Dog.
- The crazy number painter played by “The Jefferson’s” neighbor Paul Benedict was a favourite, but the shorts were killed in the 80’s because it was perceived that they encouraged graffiti. In this episode he tries to paint a “7”. In this short he runs into a random female (the second person in the elevator)… Bonus points if you can recognize this actress before she was discovered.
- And if you really want to understand me and where I get it… hands count to 11
Hopefully we can all count now.
Personally, I love these because they fire off synapses deep in my brain that have a warm nostalgic buzz to them.
Oh, and in case you really can’t figure it out…