When the going gets tough, the tough procrastinate--do other people operate this way or is it just me? Here are my favorite procrastination websites of the week. (If you don't like word games, skip down to the next post.)
Click on the art to send a free ecard via Writers in the Schools!
You may remember that I work for an education nonprofit called Writers in the Schools (WITS). I wanted to tell you about The Meeting House, 
one of our new projects. The Meeting House has two embodiments--a physical structure and a virtual one. Both of them are structures created from art and writing by Houston children.
You can send free e-cards featuring writing and art by kids via the website. Any art image can be sent by clicking the button on the bottom right corner.
Just stumbled upon this site -- if not new, it's new to me. 2moms2dads.com
Okay. It's Friday. Time for a bit of fun. Let's make movies! Work samples to follow....
Here is the movie that Baba sent to Pearl and Mamamia.
And here is the movie that Pearl and Mamamia made in response to Baba's movie. Pearl says that the main character in both the stories is an owl.
Some of my blog friends made word clouds and I saw them and wanted my own. Mine, mine, mine. Hey, you, get offa....
Like many American professionals, I keep lots of my relevant work information on a PDA
(personal digital assistant), and it contains documents and databases from my computer at the office. I take it home each night, so I can do some of my work there and then play a game of solitaire before bedtime.
For the past week or so, I arrive at work, place the PDA in its "cradle" and see the same message. Program Memory is critically Low: Please end one of the following applications. And I have to close several before the little device will cooperate.
Then last night I discovered a folder full of digital files I didn't know were there saved in a format that I didn't recognize. I opened one, then another, then another. These were sound files. Someone had been tape recording with my iPaq. I could tell from the dates that this had gone on for several weeks. Each recording began with percussion, presumably the stylus tapping against the screen. It sounded like a squirrel scampering in someone's attic. Then voices set in--mine, Marcia, sometimes Pearl's too. Some recordings were only 5 seconds long. One lasted half an hour.
The Montessori people refer to everything a child does as "work," and apparently our child has been "working" very hard in the off hours. By the time she's three, will she be podcasting?
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Have you ever played with the typogenerator? It is barrel-of-monkeys fun! Thanks to my friends at spunga.com for pointing us towards this fine playground.
Here's how it works. You type in a few words, and the computer does a Google image search based on your list and creates a work of art based on what it finds. I'm lovin' it.
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