1. My sister has started a book club.
2. I have joined.
3. We are doing the CLASSICS. (I’m secretly wishing Enid Blyton is considered a classic – It would be terribly, awfully, disgustingly nice if it were truly so!)
4. Husband (on successful weight and dietary management): I wish I could build a device that – once you swallow a morsel of food, the food gets teleported out of your body!
5. As a treat husband will buy the boys batteries, wires and LEDs and other electronic gadgets instead of chocolates, lollies and NORMAL CHILDREN’S TOYS.
Batteries, wires, and LEDs? Building robots or something? Get some resistors and 555 timers you can make em blink
About #4…how would you get any sustenence? Perhaps a device that keeps just the stuff you need.
Husband if you are reading this, please tell mousehunter what you bought for the boys a couple of months ago, complete with LEDs, resistors and circuit board thingamy.
enid blyton is NOT a classic?
Mousehunter, the first circuit I made when I was 14 was an LM3909 LED Flasher with one of those High-Brite LEDs (one IC, one capacitor, one LED and one 1.5v battery).
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/ledflash.htm
My second gagdet, which I like to call the “hey dad, lets make it look like we have an alarm in our car with these flashing LEDs” circuit, used the 555 timer!
The “thingamy” that Tasmiya is talking about, which the boys REALLY REALLY enjoyed playing with, is … wait for it… wait… the Knight Rider LED Scanner that KITT had. Yes, I was a kid in the eighties!
We put it together and it worked for a little while.
Does anyone remember The Edison Twins, MacGuyver and Voyager From The Unknown?
The Nerd Family, a hit show on the Fox Network, right after the movie, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”
lol
Mona – I guess it isn’t an adult classic so I don’t think we will be reviewing The Enchanted Wood or The Wishing Chair at the book club.
Irving – I can help write the script – you’re on to something there