Luai Lashire / Texts
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My favorite example of this task is unfortunately fictional. In volume three of FLIGHT (an anthology of short comics), there is a short comic of a boy on a subway who sees a miserable-looking woman, and slips something into her purse. She catches him, thinks he's stealing, and there's a bit of a kerfuffle; but as she looks in her bag, she finds a little smiley-faced button she's never seen before. The boy is already gone, it's too late to thank him, but she smiles as she leaves the train.
.... Anyway, it's what came to mind reading this task.
There is a book in the Xanth series (which is so chock-full of puns on every page of every book that it is mind-boggling) in which they visit the "pun-kin patch" (groan) where they encounter a huge number of real-life puns. My favorite, I think, is the bucket which says "Kick me"- and if you do, you die (get it?!?!). The entire series could probably serve as excellent inspiration for this task, but that book would be especially good, methinks.
I feel like I've already done this. I got arrested for being in a public park after dark because a friend wanted to show me some trees with the moon shining through them and we forgot that parks close at sundown. I got fined over $300 for it too. My parents were disappointed in the mediocrity of my crime, they were hoping my first arrest would be over something interesting like civil disobedience.
Questions!
Does a previously written story count?
Does a book I co-wrote with my little brother count?
Does the child have to be one you have not met before?
How does one find pretired tasks? I have tried to find a list of them before, but have failed.
Well, there *are* 20+ books, which is pushing it for just about any series (except Discworld). I usually read them with large chunks of time between each book.
I haven't heard of the Callahan's series, I will have to check that out!
This is my second year of Japanese lessons, and I have to wonder if you were taught/learned by a more efficient method than the one I've experienced. Because neither the grammar nor the "alphabet" of Japanese is easy (unless you are referring only to Hiragana/Katakana, and not Kanji), not the way I'm being taught.
We have not really been taught any over-arching grammar rules though, excepting how to use particles like は and に. We're being taught sort of "formulas" for making sentences, and you plug the words you want into the "formula" to say something. Like "A-san wa Object wo Verb Short Form to itteimasu".
Is this more or less the method you learned by, or did you do it differently?
True.
What I *meant* was the kind of cartography whereby you actually measure distances before you draw them (as opposed to what I usually do, which is to eyeball it).
I'll share with someone! This seems like a nice task to be doing right now, while I am too busy to do anything that requires IRL action (making a documentary + being in highschool: it eats lots of time).
I can: use a video camera, edit film, use an SLR camera, develop film, sew by hand, sew on a machine, draft patterns, knit, design clothing, draw women (but not men), draw most other non-human things, color sketches using GIMP, paint, screenprint, tie-dye, make stencils, use stencils, make candles, sing, dance (modern, ballet, and jazz), write novels and poems (but not short stories), diagnose strangers' neuroses with great accuracy, spot an autistic from a distance (they have a distinct walk!), apply stage makeup, make jewelry, do beadwork, "read" someone's clothing, speak a decent amount of Japanese, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting!
I cannot, but would like to be able to: play an instrument, be on time, fix electronic equipment, understand computers, crochet, whittle, carve, build furniture, tap dance, speak confidently to strangers, do *accurate* cartography, scuba-dive, compose a song, surf, skateboard, do parkour. I love learning anything I can, though, so I couldn't possibly list everything I want to learn!
(this the first time I've tried to embed a comic here, fingers crossed that I've done it right!)