Me: Why did you take out the raisins?
K1: To make a gun.
Me: What?
K1: To make a gun.
Me: Did you say "gun"? How do you make a gun out of raisins?
K1: Here's how.


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Father, children and Play-doh. Judge: D. Pama ( Read more... )

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This is going to be an unabashedly proud-grandma post ( Read more... )

Vince Eitzen was DS' grandfather. Marilyn, his grandmother, left for Florida today...and was talking about her first husband (he was the first of her 3 husbands.) He must have been an amazing guy ( Read more... )

It's most enjoyable when children develop their own personalities, and give their own spin to things!

Here's KTB, singing the original words (with exaggerated expressions, ofkose)

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and here's her positive version:

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It's wonderful to see things of beauty growing from nothing but a length of string (or wool). Knitting, crochet and tatting have always held a fascination for me. I liked knitting, but thanks to my myopia, the other two were beyond me. But when I saw my friend Savita engaged in tatting while she was helping out at our friend's sadAbhishEkam (80th ( Read more... )

Harish Bhat, who is a friend on Facebook, and posts a lot of interesting stuff, posted about

the flexible e-paper display launch Though I am impressed by the innovation in terms of material use and invention, I still feel that products like this fall into what I call the classic Innovation Trap ( Read more... )

I have had, as usual, a lot of interesting things to do...and one of them was the Origam workshop I attended at

Jaaga

I found that the teacher, Krishna Panyam, was someone I had met earlier, on the bus tour of the lakes of Bangalore

Here's one of the pieces that Krishna made:

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