Thanks to Miles, much of our house is in disarray.  A recent exploration of his uncovered a notebook, which I didn’t pay any attention to until Denny picked it up and opened it the other day.  There’s a handout there on the subject of educational technology, and some notes from what was obviously a conference (though I couldn’t tell you anything more than that; the notes aren’t very exciting).

A couple of pages in shows what was actually on my mind as I sat in the conference.  I have no memory of writing this, but it’s in my handwriting and follows my general aesthetic, so there you go.

Some good inventions:

• A necklace that sends tiny electrical shocks through your neck, keeping your hair fluffy and exciting.
• Tiny robots that live under your tongue and periodically squirt minty juice, which keeps your breath fresh.
• A giant dictionary that lives in the sky and falls on people’s heads when they misuse words [examples]. [blogger’s note:  I guess I was going to fill in the examples later]
• A robot that looks just like you—it follows you around and apologizes to everyone you’re mean to.
• A tiny human that grows inside you, then comes out and can be molded to believe the things you believe and hate the things you hate. [blogger’s note:  maybe I was pregnant when I wrote this.]
• A pair of shoes made entirely out of shrimp—walk home on a hot day, have dinner.  Added benefit:  popular with cats.
• Opposite scissors:  put things back together again.
• A pen that uses pee instead of ink—-good for writing letters to your enemies because the letters smell bad.
• Wine that tastes just as good in barf form as it did originally.
• Disposable kittens:  when they stop being cute, they turn into plump red strawberries ripe for the eating.
• A giant mouth that you can sleep in.
• A flame-thrower that looks like a fire extinguisher:  handy when your enemy is slightly on fire but you wish he/she were completely on fire.

Our friend Danny is visiting right now, and his 6-year-old wants to be a scientist/inventor when he grows up.  I think I’m going to recruit him to make these dreams a reality.