every day's a quintessential day to learn a new fact; to feel the thrill of synapse connection in one's brain. as roll-taking today i asked my homeroom students to tell us something new they learned over the weekend. answers ranged from "how much a floor polisher weighs" (!?) to "where our family name comes from". some "dunno" and "not much" and "nothin" but it is 8:15 in the morning and they are pre-teens, i'll hand that much to them. plus i had a coffee and they didn't. how could i blame them afterall, i who before last week for example, did not know that steam punk is a sub-genre of science fiction in which setting steampower is the predominant energy source for high industrial technology. what sub-geneous (pun intended) rock have i been hiding beneath?! such alternative history is usually 19th century british victorian, see also today's photo installment. loosely translated, sort of this amelia earhart meets edward scissorhands thing. i also learned what a "smash book" is. it's basically a really cool copyrighted company journal (also somewhat industrial i might add) that can handle anything up to even a can that has trailed behind a 'just married' car. so , if i have this right, you could technically put most all of your steam punk gear into a smash book and it would fit! i think i smell a business merger here...no, wait, that's just the decades old aviator goggle leather burning my eyes...
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