a kick to the balls

Luna Cycles Florida correspondent, Chris Harris, sent this in:

hey man. the kid keeps on surprising. his team was in the state regional semi-finals tuesday night against jacksonville wolfson, the team that knocked them out of the tournament last year (and had beaten them back in fall). after regulation, it was 0-0. they played two 10-minute overtimes, same result. then on to penalty kicks. the scenario: dylan's teammate davey beck makes his, then wolfson makes one. a leon player misses, but dylan blocks the wolfson shot to keep it 1-1. nick brinson makes it 2-1, and dylan follows with a second diving block. clayton hinson makes, and it's up to dylan. he guesses right and blocks his third PK in a row. the
student body section, well into the hundreds, pours onto the field. they and dylan's teammates pick him up on their shoulders. when they finally let him down someone hands him the school flag and he takes a lap. the match goes down as a 1-0 win. dylan get's his 20th shutout of the year,
setting a record. his goals-against average is now 0.55. he made headlines in the paper, and was featured on two TV sports segments.

Newspaper article

check out his quote. i think someone should offer him a scholarship just for using the e-word.

Check out the article. Dylan's in high school and managed to use the word emanate in a post-game interview! Gives me hope for the future that maybe my students will absorb something. Anyway, I think Dylan is like some kind of ball whisperer or something. All of a sudden, the kid just figured out he was a goalie. I'm still trying to find the sport I'm a natural for...

I'm looking forward to working with my kids on their robots tomorrow. They're starting to really get into it. Although the robots are simple, the kids do have to program them using a TI graphing calculator as the robot's "brain". I'm really trying to drive home the fact that computers don't think, they just do what you tell them to do. By having them program, they are getting first hand experience in identifying and correcting their mistakes. check out the robots I'm using here. I think Isaac Asimov said that as a society becomes more technologically advanced, it's technology will seem to operate by magic. I really want to demystify the whole thing for my kids...

Tomorrow afternoon is the school Valentine's dance. It is a truly painful experience to endure. The music is way too loud given the acoustic qualities of a gymnasium and for the most part, all of the kids just stand around (or run around like idiots, in the case of 6th grade boys). Fortunately, Owen will preclude us from attending. Darn...

Speaking of Owen, we have finally discovered that he doesn't like to eat anything sweet, but he can put a serious dent in some mashed up vegetables. Tonight, he eyed our thai noodles with tofu and spicy peanut sauce like a little bobcat eyeing its prey...

Highs this weekend in the upper 40's, so should be decent riding weather. Hopefully we'll have another big group like last weekend. Come join us at 10am saturday at the shop!