[GreenKeys] off-topic: cub scouts (well, kinda on-topic since ttys were involved)

[gil smith]

Hi folks:

I wanted to thank you guys who answered questions and helped me become a 
cub scout leader this year.  It has been a crazy, busy, fun time, with 
eleven second-graders, including my son Alec.

I thought you might like to see some of what we did this year.  We uploaded 
the year's pics to <http://walgreens.com/>walgreens.com -- it provides a 
very quick way to scan thumbnails and then click to see the pic.  You get 
there from this link (needs a simple registration):

<<http://photo.walgreens.com/share/p=836201208718636223/l=18248341/g=24004947/cobrandOid=1009/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB>http://photo.walgreens.com/share/p=836201208718636223/l=18248341/g=24004947/cobrandOid=1009/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB>

Bill Buzbee will notice that I used his laser-light-show idea, scabbing a 
couple of mirrors onto portable fans -- kids had a lot of fun with that 
one.  Yeah, we added a mirror-on-a-speaker to modulate it as well (becomes 
a circular oscilloscope).  Joe Satriani provided the awesome guitar work 
and bass-heavy tunes for the best display (not in person, unfortunately).

We also had some teletype machines, of course, with a working setup 
including an M14 typing reperf, an M28-TD, an M31, and a M15.

And we did a nighttime rocket launch (with flashing lights in the 
nosecones, for recovery), shooting six at a time, until the frickin' 
security guard came by and told us "fireworks are illegal in the park;  the 
moose out front should have told ya."

Oops, am I irritating any sensitive folks by saying frickin' ?  Let me just 
apologize in advance then.

And we did the pinewood derby, cubmobile, campout, Veteran's Day parade -- 
yeah, it's been a fun year.

thanks again to everybody,

gil



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