128 miles already separating leaders from stragglers.  In the singlehanded sailboat race around the world.

Here’s the tracker map. Fun.

http://tracking2016.vendeeglobe.org/hp5ip0/

Third grade book report posters must be due soon!

The squeeky door app . . .

Robert swept the living room today. It must be time to play:  NAME THAT GAME PIECE!

How many can you identify?

Last week something interesting happened.  For the first time, one of Robert’s blog posts on his law firm site went viral, as they say.  To set some context, that website typically gets about 5 hits a day.  And most of those hits are from search engine bots.

Well, on about Thursday of last week things lit up. Someone noticed a recent blog post by Robert that analyzed, and was critical of, the software license used by Facebook for its React project, which it touts as an “open source” project.

Well, a developer found that post and a discussion on the Hacker News site ensued.  A good number of twitter posts, etc. Robert won’t bore you with the details (and they are pretty boring). Let’s just say that there were quite a number of mentions on the internet with the title: “Lawyer says React license not open source.” Robert is pretty sure the folks at the Facebook open source group are cussing him out this week.

Anyway, it was worth 29,488 hits as of today. It even made Javascrip Weekly.  But you already know that!

Third grade math moves a lot faster than Robert remembers it moving.  He’s trying to keep up!

Today Cadie’s first grade class went on their first field trip. To Spring Hill Farm for some pumpkin and potato picking.  Also, each kid got to milk a cow, pet a calf, run in a hay maze, play in dried corn and, best of all, eat fresh ice cream.

The kids learn about farming and animals. Very cool.

The curriculum may not be 100% effective, however. After milking a cow, one student told Robert:  “I touched his nuts.”