Posted by Doug
Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:37:08 GMT
My oldest son, Josh, can go to Apple Summer Camp this year. I’ve signed him up for the Movie Workshop and iWeb Workshop.
“Summer Camp” is a bit of a misnomer. Each “camp” is 3 hours on one day. Since Josh is under 13, I’ll need to take off work to be there with him. It should be fun! The idea is to actually finish a project and take it home burned on DVD. Plus he gets a T-Shirt for each “camp” he goes to.
Oh, and Josh has been asking me about teaching him to write games. I’m not sure which direction do go here. I have so much respect for The Pragmatic Programmers I’m tempted to get Learn to Program. On the other hand, I’m also tempted to do something like Beginning Flash Game Programming for Dummies. I’ve heard good things about Learn to Program. I’d expect that it would give a good foundation in programming. But Flash is… well flashy. If you have any input on the subject of teaching pre-teens to program I’d love to hear it.
Posted in Josh, Family, Programming, Mac OS X | Tags Apple, camp, Josh, Kids, programming | 3 comments
Posted by Doug
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:42:27 GMT
My son, Joshua, has been in Karate for about a year. He started in the “kinder” program and then moved up to the youth classes. Board breaking is very exciting to kids. As part of his blue belt testing he has to break a board with a shuto (knife hand) strike.
He’d been building up to this for a while. One night he thought he was going to do it, but another student started before him. He stood there and watched and listened to the Sensei as she instructed the other student. It took the girl like 4 or 5 strikes before she broke it.
I was nervous about Josh not being able to do it either, so I had him practice on the plastic “breaking boards”. These are boards that fit together like a puzzle and are meant to break in the middle and then you put them back together again. Theoretically they have the same strength as wood. I had him do three good breaks on the breaking board. At that point we were out of time for the night.
It was a little sneaky on my part. I had forgotten my video camera that night and wanted him to do it on a night when I had it. So the next lesson I brought my camera and caught this video (~20MB Quicktime movie). This is the first time he’s ever attempted to break a real wood board. The original take was pretty good, but I went ahead and spruced it up in iMovie with some fun effects.
Posted in Josh, Family | Tags Josh, karate, Kids | 4 comments
Posted by Doug
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:34:31 GMT
Me: Tomorrow’s a big day for your mom and I. Do you know why?
Josh: Because we’re getting a babysitter?
Me: heh, well, maybe. But that’s not the reason it’s a big day.
Josh: Oh, yea. It’s like your 7th, 8th, or 9th anniversary!
Me: It’s our 14th Anniversary. We were married for 6 years before you were born.
Josh: You must have been miserable for those six years.
Me: Ha! Why’s that?
Josh: Well, you must have been miserable being married with no kids.
Ah, to be young and naive…
Posted in Josh, Family, Humor | 1 comment
