The Jensen Family

A Rube Goldberg Machine for a school project… these aren’t the final videos that he will submit for his grade. They’re just the raw videos of his machine working.

Description of the machine

The machine in action.

The second try.

After I posted that link to a song yesterday, I logged on to Lala this morning and saw a notice saying that the service is shutting down at the end of May. Typical.

I’ve started listening to music on Lala, which is a pretty cool way to get access to a lot of music.  Last night I ran across the option to post a song from Lala on my own page, so I’m wondering if this will work, or if it will require people to log in before they can hear it.  Hopefully it will be cool for people to listen to.

Actually, the thing I like best is the ability to find new music by seeing what my friends and family are listening to. This one I stumbled across on my own, but I’ve found a lot of cool music by watching what Andrew, Nick, and Joe are listening to.

All if the boys have been working together on a merit badge called “pioneering”. This is the skill of using ropes and logs to build things, the way the early pioneers had to do it. After two theory lessons, they were ready to try building something, so tonight we worked together to build a ladder that can become part of a small tower! All of the boys can now tie a reliable clove hitch and can do good square lashings. I think their progress has been excellent!