Lite Brite!

So the girls' Aunt Pauli sent them a Lite Brite set. BLAST FROM THE PAST! Remember Lite Brite?





Anyway, the girls' eyes nearly fell out of their head when they opened the box. They immediately set to work on it.








So here's the final product. Can you tell what it is? Yes, it's a van. More specific than that: who's van is it? And extra bonus points if you remember the van's name.



Thanks, Aunt P!

Hail! Hail!

So bless her dear Wisconsin Badger heart -- Brenna took the time to teach Abra how to play a very special song on the piano.

Take a listen.

Dad is so proud.

Warped Spacetime

So when teaching about Einstein, general relativity, and how extremely massive objects can warp space, we all use the familiar "bowling ball on a rubber sheet" analogy. You know, the one that uses figures like this:

Or this:
Or this:

You get the picture.

Well from now on, I'm using this:

Yes, it's true. Healy has gotten so massive he creates his own little pocket of warped space. Egad.