We Went to Harvest... and it was Slow

Also, way too noisy. I couldn't tell if it was the overabundance of free-drinking business types getting loud or just a lousy acoustic design. But the place was way louder than it should've been with that number of people.

( Lots of restaurant and some food geeking )

If this is typical and not just an off night then Harvest definitely deserves to be dethroned as one of the icons of Harvard Square fine dining.

We Went to Harvest... and it was Slow

Also, way too noisy. I couldn't tell if it was the overabundance of free-drinking business types getting loud or just a lousy acoustic design. But the place was way louder than it should've been with that number of people.

( Lots of restaurant and some food geeking )

If this is typical and not just an off night then Harvest definitely deserves to be dethroned as one of the icons of Harvard Square fine dining.

Too Stupid to Tie His Own Shoes

This year in school they're teaching K to tie his shoes. Good, practical skill that. Pygment has gotten him some lace-up sneakers (as opposed to the velcro-close ones we've had in past) and he's digging right in. Except...

This morning we're in a rush and he comes to me for help with tying them. Now "help" means "show me how to do this" not "do it for me" (a notable difference between 6-year-olds and 3-year-olds, in case you were wondering). So here I am trying to show him how to tie laces and I realize several things:

(a) I've never taught anyone to tie their own shoes.
(b) doing this in mirror-reverse is harder than just tying something for someone else (like laces on the back of a dress or corset)
(c) I have no frelling clue how to explain what I'm doing. I resort to breaking it down to step-by-step with us passing the laces back and forth because I can't do it without laces in my hands, which leads me to realize
(d) the way I tie my own shoes is full of wasted steps and things I oughtn't do, like picking up one of the laces to make a loop when I'm just going to drop that loop anyway.

All day today my own laces have been coming untied, which I suspect is a side effect of me actually thinking about typing my shoes, rather than just tying them.

Which goes to prove I'm clearly too stupid to tie my own shoes.

Too Stupid to Tie His Own Shoes

This year in school they're teaching K to tie his shoes. Good, practical skill that. Pygment has gotten him some lace-up sneakers (as opposed to the velcro-close ones we've had in past) and he's digging right in. Except...

This morning we're in a rush and he comes to me for help with tying them. Now "help" means "show me how to do this" not "do it for me" (a notable difference between 6-year-olds and 3-year-olds, in case you were wondering). So here I am trying to show him how to tie laces and I realize several things:

(a) I've never taught anyone to tie their own shoes.
(b) doing this in mirror-reverse is harder than just tying something for someone else (like laces on the back of a dress or corset)
(c) I have no frelling clue how to explain what I'm doing. I resort to breaking it down to step-by-step with us passing the laces back and forth because I can't do it without laces in my hands, which leads me to realize
(d) the way I tie my own shoes is full of wasted steps and things I oughtn't do, like picking up one of the laces to make a loop when I'm just going to drop that loop anyway.

All day today my own laces have been coming untied, which I suspect is a side effect of me actually thinking about typing my shoes, rather than just tying them.

Which goes to prove I'm clearly too stupid to tie my own shoes.

Despair and hope

Being my friends, I'm pretty sure you'll know which one is which.

Apple trailers first fed me:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/jesuscamp/trailer/
then
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/darshantheembrace/trailer/

Despair and hope

Being my friends, I'm pretty sure you'll know which one is which.

Apple trailers first fed me:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/jesuscamp/trailer/
then
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/darshantheembrace/trailer/