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Class. I understand the concepts well enough; it’s the syntax I’m having trouble with. Part of the problem is that Alice (or should I say PREOP?) is so much easier to build with because all you have to do is click and drag. There’s no real syntax to speak of. I’m getting spoiled in that class.

So. All that leaves me with is practice, practice, practice. My schedule kind of fell apart last week because of physics, so I’m gonna try that again.

I’m kind of excited about the finalist visit. I never got to do that since I wasn’t accepted into CBH until later, so I don’t know what to expect. I’ll see most of you guys there, I guess.

I could not believe my eyes when I saw this. I want furniture like this, if only for the entertainment value when I have guests over. Torvald, the chair, and Nora, the rocking stool, were created after a rereading of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Dollhouse”. (I haven’t read it, myself, so I don’t know if the names are references to the play, but I would bet they are.) The two pieces of furniture have sensors embedded in them. Torvald has a photocell that starts his lines when it senses darkness (someone sits down). Nora has an accelerometer.

Here’s a sample dialogue, with two people sitting down. It’s like a battle of non sequiturs.

T: This time I needn’t sit here and be dull all alone. You have just come at a fortunate moment.
N: It’s wonderful! Wonderful things don’t happen every day. Take this armchair; I will sit here in the rocking-chair.
T: Has anyone been here?
N: What a thoughtless creature I am, chattering away like this.
T: You can depend on me.
N: It will make me so happy to be of some use to you.
T: Don’t disturb me. Look straight at me.
N: I am in a silly mood today. Come and sit down here, and I will show you something.
T: How unreasonable and how ungrateful you are. What sort of madness is this! Can you not understand your place in your own home?
N: What do you want of me? Have you been sitting here waiting for me?
T: I may as well tell you plainly, we were once on very intimate terms with one another.
N: You don’t understand me, and I have never understood you either.
T: Explain yourself better. I don’t understand you. Can I never be anything more than a stranger to you?
N: You must simply listen to what I say. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you.
T: You are right, it has affected us both. Something ugly has come between us. Where are you going?
N: Isn’t there one thing that strikes you as strange in our sitting here like this.
T: Here you shall stay and give me an explanation.
N: Does it not occur to you that this is the first time we two… have had a serious conversation?
T: On the contrary, I feel extraordinarily lively. And you? You really look both tired and sleepy.