Willowdale is a game I made with my kids where you can explore our neighbourhood. You can read more about how we created it in Creating A Game.
You can access the game at http://willowdale.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
My 7 year old recently acquired a fish bowl with a betta fish.
Apparently, the PLA plastic used in 3D printers doesn’t degrade significantly in a fish tank, so I started looking for aquarium decorations we could print. And I came across a design for a fish feeder: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1257953
I started modifying it to accommodate our fish bowls. She asked to help out, so I suggested she do a sketch of her design.
About a month ago, my youngest daughter borrowed a really neat toy called “Talkative Chick’s House Ppiyak-e House Bird Toy Mimiworld”, who’d brought the toy back with her on a trip from Korea.
A while ago, my daughter and I built an outhouse out of Popsicle sticks and a cereal box. I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but she held on to it and kept it alongside her toys. She even brought it to school one day when she had to present a craft she had made.
I wrote previously about James Bond entering the public domain in Canada.
I love the idea of work in the public domain - I’ve actually read a number of Ian Flemming’s books since they’ve come out of copyright, I’ve read more of George Orwell, and I’m currently reading a book about the history of rocket fuel.
In Canada, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the author’s death - the MPAA is looking to get this extended to 70 years according to a recent article by Michael Geist:
We have harvested our 2017 crop.
This is an interesting year, as we had a late start to the season, and less sun than normal. We’ll have even less sun in future years, as a new condo building is going up in front of us and will certainly reduce the amount of sun received by our balcony.
