I gave my cat loving niece a cat origami kit.

People just folding cats into amusing shapes ? Don't they do that by themselves ?

the paper is printed so that when the "cat" is folded, the pattern "makes" the cat.

One question: Did it come in a box?

I'll go to my room now.

The quip died.

Bohr would like a word with you.

Sorry.. I'm having a cynical morning over what is and is not taught in schools and the near-total absence of reading or even "googling" to self-educate anymore.

Cute, though.

...many people on the street would stop me to tell me they loved the shirt.

It still happens from time to time around here.

I usually attend the "Science on Saturday" event at PPPL near here.

Many people do as I did when my sons were in Junior and Senior High, bring their kids.

Let me tell you, some of those kids are extremely bright, as their questions show. I've seen kids as young as seven or eight ask questions that were fairly sophisticated, way beyond anything I could have asked at that age.

The world is not ending; it's changing. I have hopes for the children to rise beyond us with a core who can understand what we did to them. Great generations are generated by great challenges.

It is not those kids and all the others undoubtedly encouraged by well-educated family members who concern me.

It is those who are at the other extreme and who are going to be left behind even more over these next four years.

...his family as a shoe shine boy during the Roosevelt Administration.

He hated Roosevelt all his life, and voted for exactly one Democrat before he died, Harry Truman. He thought Richard Nixon was a great President, loved Ronald Reagan, his last vote before dying having been for George H.W. Bush.

His mathematical ability never stretched beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, the latter with some trouble.

He was a laborer, and worked in a warehouse moving boxes until the company shut it down.

I am very well educated, have never, not once, voted for a Republican, because the tools for education - which my parents were wise enough to encourage me to use, their own limitations having had consequence - were there.

It is a long time since I needed a school to learn new things. I am, as each of my well educated sons is as well, an autodidact. The core remains, and while much might burn, the truth will somewhere be left in the ashes.

I'm not all that much longer for this planet, but I have faith that there is no cause for surrender, even if I do not live long enough to see some victory over fear and ignorance.

There are children who know that quantum mechanics is a thing. They are the cores in the ashes.

... is how to learn.

husband shortly before he died. It cracked us both up.

Now my head hurts.

Had an episode where Sheldon (the genius with no common sense) explained the cat to Penny (the waitress who knows what's going on). So, at the Penny-level, I understand it.

GRANTIFA

Senior citizen pissed off about all of this stupid shit!

I googled "#is my spirit animal t-shirt" images and got quite a selection. Don't know which to choose .... I think maybe the squirrel?

J/K. It's a great shirt.