The Pip’s current phrase of choice is “How do you build…?” We get asked this several times a day.<\/p>\n
“Daddy, how do you build a glass?”<\/p>\n
“Well, you get the right kind of sand, and you get it really hot, so hot it melts. Then you make it into the shape of a glass, and let it cool down. Then it’s a glass.”<\/p>\n
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“Daddy, how do you build a building like that one?”<\/p>\n
“Well, you get a bunch of bricks, and stack them up to make the building you want.”<\/p>\n
“How do you build a brick?”<\/p>\n
“Well, you get a bunch of the right kind of mud, and mix it all together. Then you make it into a rectangle, and get it really hot, so it turns into, um, brick.”<\/p>\n
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“Daddy, how do you build a tree?”<\/p>\n
“You don’t, honey. Trees are living things. They just grow.”<\/p>\n
—-<\/p>\n
Yesterday, after I picked him up at day care, when we got to the car, he asked “Daddy, how do you build a rocketship?”<\/p>\n
That’s a little complicated– being literally rocket science– so to stall for time, I asked “A real rocketship, like to go to space?”<\/p>\n
“Well… No, a pretend rocketship. Out of magnet tiles<\/a>.”<\/p>\n “Oh. I don’t know. How do you build a pretend rocketship out of magnet tiles?”<\/p>\n “Well, you take three big triangle ones, and you put them together and you put a little triangle one on the bottom, and then you…” And he was so proud<\/em> of himself for getting to explain to me. Then SteelyKid chimed in, and we had a lively little seminar in the back seat about the best techniques for magnet tile rocket construction…<\/p>\n (The “featured image” up top is one of a set of “posters” I put together as a way of avoiding less pleasant work, using the cute-kid photos from my promotional<\/a> videos<\/a> for Eureka<\/a> (coming two weeks from yesterday…). It seemed an appropriate image to go with this anecdote…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pip’s current phrase of choice is “How do you build…?” We get asked this several times a day. “Daddy, how do you build a glass?” “Well, you get the right kind of sand, and you get it really hot, so hot it melts. Then you make it into the shape of a glass, and… Continue reading How to Build a Rocketship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-science","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","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=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}