{"id":10411,"date":"2015-12-05T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2015-12-05T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:59:42","slug":"095366-second-grade-movember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/12\/05\/095366-second-grade-movember\/","title":{"rendered":"095\/366: Second-Grade Movember"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both SteelyKid’s elementary school and her after-school day care had “book fairs” this week. These include a bunch of display cases full of books at various reading levels, and also a couple of tables of plastic toy crap. One of the marginally less crappy plastic toys was a marker with ink that fluoresces in UV light but is otherwise inevitable, and SteelyKid kept bugging me to get one of those. I eventually caved, because it required only loaning her one dollar to supplement her allowance, and it was worth a buck to me not to have to listen to the complaints that would’ve ensued otherwise.<\/p>\n

Of course, part of the reason she wanted one is that one of her classmates had gotten one, and they played with it at day care. Where she let him draw a mustache on her face with it:<\/p>\n

\"SteelyKid<\/a>
SteelyKid showing off her ultraviolet mustache.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

I guess I should maybe email her friend E.’s father and let him know to be ready for invisible face tattoos come next Monday, when SteelyKid has a UV pen of her own…<\/p>\n

(The OBPhysicsNerd note for this: It’s interesting how much more brightly this shows up on the camera than just looking at her. To the naked eye, this looks like a thin blue-white line over her lip; the garish pink and purple isn’t visible at all. Which tells you something about the spectral response of the camera sensor, I guess– maybe I’ll take the pen over to campus one of these days and point a spectrometer at it…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both SteelyKid’s elementary school and her after-school day care had “book fairs” this week. These include a bunch of display cases full of books at various reading levels, and also a couple of tables of plastic toy crap. One of the marginally less crappy plastic toys was a marker with ink that fluoresces in UV… Continue reading 095\/366: Second-Grade Movember<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}