Stone Flower

This one is a mix of 'old fashioned' and modern. Today's Gratitude Item: This isometric drawing tool. It is perfect for showing my 9th graders the relationship between 'plan' views…

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Old New

Created on Old Year's Eve this one is a mix of old and new ideas. Today's Gratitude Item: That my partial scholarship for doing some further study this year finally…

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Suspended Motion

This one did not take as long to create as one might think. Today's Gratitude Item: Managing to help a student get his computer working again. Initially it would not…

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Anxious Separation

Is this what it looks like just before things fall apart? Today's Gratitude Item: Finally finding out what classes I will be teaching this year. Our timetables are still in…

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Quarter to Shiny

Reminded me of clocks all showing 'quarter to...' Today's Gratitude Item: That a slight issue with one of my student's exam marks from last year is in the process of…

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O Synergy

Or should it be 'Oh. Synergy!' Today's Gratitude Item: My level 1 students did very nicely in their external exams. Results were officially due out tomorrow but they got published…

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Tartan Disc Revisited

I'm pretty sure that we've been here before... Today's Gratitude Item: An html stripper. I needed to get quite a bite of 'plain text' from some html and doing it…

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Spiro Flower

It's amazing what one can do with bright blue fractal string. Today's Gratitude Item: Email from students in the holidays. It turns out that some of them are working on…

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Snake Star

Named because the texture on this one is reminiscent of snake skin. Today's Gratitude Item: Learning how to check for duplicates in an excel spreadsheet over multiple columns. The process…

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Disc Flower in Copper

Sometimes ornate is good. Today's Gratitude Item: That the 'silly season' is finally over and things are starting to get back to normal (where the word 'normal' is used in…

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