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Daily 154: Wondrous Wednesday - Bucket Wraiths RPG

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Summary

Rainy start (admissions interview from home). Packed for fall with interviews and visiting weeks. JC interrupted by pounding rain on tent. Role-playing session: Lord of the Rings-style twist with bucket instead of ring, "bucket wraiths" coming for protagonists. Hopes student will run RPGs someday. Wondrous Wednesday on "hammer method of mathematics" (secant method). Article Club and creative writing tomorrow.

Transcript

0:00 Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore Your Daily Podcast Briefing of All the Goings-On's, Ends and Rounds, Arts and Ideas, Sudbury School.
0:07 So today started out pretty rainy. I wasn't actually here for that part because I was doing an admissions interview.
0:15 We are still doing interviews and we're still trying to fit in visiting weeks. We are packed to the gills.
0:22 This is very exciting and hopefully we'll have a great fall with all these new people.
0:30 Maybe a little bit bumpy in the beginning just because when you have a lot of new people it takes them a little time to figure stuff out.
0:38 But you know, school's got to get people in here and you know, we want to be available to as many kids as we can. So yeah, that's happening.
0:53 But I did hear, so I wasn't here for JC, but apparently they were doing the first case and it started raining really high.
1:04 It was pounding, pounding, pounding and they couldn't actually hear what's going on. Right now it's pretty windy.
1:12 But yeah, the rain was coming down and so they couldn't get to the second case. So that was something.
1:23 So I came in and I did my role playing with my group. I have created a really great setup of a twist, kind of a somewhat of a riff on Lord of the Rings style ring, but involving a bucket instead.
1:48 And crazy stuff happened and we left the group with the bucket wraiths coming in after our protagonists.
2:01 So we will see next time what happens. But it was kind of exciting and kind of funny. I laugh a lot when I do this role playing with them. It's great fun.
2:11 I hope one day that someone will, a student will take up the mantle of running these things because I think that'd be awesome.
2:22 And so, yeah, that was that. People have been out a bit. People have been inside. Yeah, I don't know. It's been a day.
2:35 I did an extremely long Wondrous Wednesday. I was talking about this method that I think I might just start calling the hammer method of mathematics because it pretty much whacks a lot of nails in mathematics.
2:53 It's somewhat riffing off of what I talked about yesterday and kind of going back into it.
2:59 It's hard to separate these things. But, yeah, I was just kind of demonstrating this technique.
3:05 I don't know how well it comes over on the audio side of things, but hopefully I made the point of perhaps how to do this thing.
3:17 I don't know. Probably involves a lot of writing if you really want to follow along.
3:22 And hopefully the first part was kind of me kind of showing the standard technique of solving it.
3:29 And it just sounds like gobbledygook because it is.
3:32 And then the second technique I really hope makes a lot more sense and gives a feeling of being much more grounded in the actual answer.
3:41 So I don't know. Hopefully you can check it out.
3:45 I really recommend, well, I don't know if I recommend 2x speed. When you're hearing numbers at 2x speed and trying to parse all that, it can be rather difficult.
3:56 But, yeah, but it is long. So there's that.
4:04 Anyway, you all have a good one and I will. Oh, right.
4:08 Tomorrow is Article Club and I think also a creative writing meeting.
4:14 But I believe it's all posted in Discord.
4:18 And so, yeah. Hope to see you at one of those things if you're interested.
4:24 All right. I will see you when I see you and have a good one.