Archive for November, 2010

Books & Bugs

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

How do you get a five year old interested in collecting insects? Easy, you give them a copy of this book sometime in the 1980s. My copy came from a sale at a school library.

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There isn’t really much in it about insects, just these two pages, but it was enough to start to get me hooked. I remember reading though the book many times over the summer and trying some of the experiments described inside.

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The illustrations were by Bernard West.

The cackhanded scrawl of my eight year old self.

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

I dug out an old school book, from way back when I was 8-ish. Here’s a look at the random stuff I wrote about back then.

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I was an electronics geek even back then…

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And a consummate storyteller.

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I hadn’t quite grasped the finer points of evolution though.

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And while I now love spiders, I still can’t quite bring myself to look at a centipede without a shudder.