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I volunteer each week at my son’s school, where he’s in a gifted class. Lately, they’ve been working with Lego Mindstorms, as part of a unit on robotics. I’m helping with the “programming” parts. The kids assemble the robot according to the directions, and then we connect them to a Windows machine [...]

As a child, a friend of mine (my Attorney) and I were in the local paper for building a sprawling Lego city across my rumpus room.
This morning, my son continued the legacy, by winning a bring-your-own-Lego(tm) Transformer(tm)-construction competition.
The Asheville Citizen-Times wrote it up nicely.
HENDERSONVILLE – For Noah McWhirter, building Lego figures just comes natural.
“I just [...]

Today is May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day. It seems like a good time to reflect upon work.
Particularly since I don’t get the day off.
My wife comes from a long line of railroad workers. Her father worked at the railroad until his recent retirement. His father also worked at the [...]

This weekend, the wife suggested we go as a family to see the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
I’d never heard of it, so I googled using the searchbox in Firefox. I wasn’t thinking very clearly, and just typed “road to ter” and up popped some suggestions:

Of course, the movie is named Bridge to Terabithia, not [...]

Get your flying pants on. You do have flying pants, don’t you?
Anyhow, it’s the 21st century, and I have a son on the verge of turning 10 (10?! holy crap). Definitely time to start some advanced father/son projects. But I’m a project-based worker anyhow, and a geek to boot. So this [...]