Kingdom of Knuffel

The only worthwhile BuzzFeed articles are those that include Ramen Kid. Your argument is invalid.

I... don't think I'm going to do that. You'll just have to miss out on way too many freaking trumpets playing Tichelli. Or you could put on the concert as background music while you TA!

This band is almost 130 people. That's more than ANY band director should have to deal with. That said, our director has had a ridiculously large band for several semesters now, so he should really know better. It's probably safe to say music selection is not one of his strengths. He's better in other respects.

Doot do doot do doot do DOOT DO DOOT DO DOOT DO--
No counter melody. Only doot do doot. The entire song. No breaks. Not my idea of a good time.

For some reason candy seems like an extravagance, even as I spend my money on stupid crap like industrial-size boxes of frozen mozzarella sticks.

Your opinion is invalid.

Do you really want all of my students to hear way too many trumpets playing Tichelli in association with you?

My band is probably within 20 people of yours. I know we're over 100, but I'm not sure how many over. And Dr. McCann is used to... over 300? Approximately. Or over 9000.

I LIVE FOR REPETITIVE ELEMENTS. Doot do doot is my life. Or, better yet, doot doot doot doot. On-beats are even more repetitive than off-beats. One of our songs is almost entirely on-beats for the bassoons.

Does Dad know you're living on frozen fried cheese?

You don't have to tell your students who is in the concert or why you're playing it. Just put it on super loud, don't explain anything, and stare blankly when questioned.

...Are you saying the solution is to turn us into a marching band? Because I'm down with that. It's probably the best solution to too large a sit-down band.

You can keep your doot dos. I don't want them. And I like on-beats better than off-beats, because off-beats make me twitchy.

Dad doesn't know my frozen cheese habit. Don't tell. It's our secret.

Actual important topic: I've been given the opportunity to present an "activity or demonstration" at an event at the local science museum. The event is an adults-only evening with the theme of dinosaurs, but I've been given permission to take the topic further afield to paleontology as a whole. I want to do something related to the extinction-causing impact.
My question: What types of activities or demonstrations would be good for engaging adults who are probably young and probably drunk? I don't know enough about teaching or presenting to come up with any good ideas. You're good at this sort of thing. Halp.

I'll put your concert on if you've managed to transform into a marching band by then.

I like them because they make me feel awake. Are you not usually twitchy while awake?

He knows now.

What exactly do you want them to learn? That would help determine what your activity should be. I would lean toward activity over demonstration because drunk people like to touch stuff. Unless it's dangerous. Then do it yourself and let them be mesmerized. Give me more info if you need me to think of something. If you want to test if your activity would be good, ask your friends if they would find it fun while drunk. They are your target demographic.

I tried to give blood and they wouldn't take it from me. Not enough hemoglobin. Go give blood for me.

I grow weary of twitchiness. On-beats are dependable. On-beats are friends.

I'm not really sure of the details of this event or how I'm expected to present knowledge to these people. I have requested information. It may be given to me.

Where are your hemo-goblins? What did you do to them?

I refuse to join Fitocracy because I am already intimidated by your successes. I am not fit enough. I don't enter competitions I know I'm going to lose.

I can't really help without some details. It sounds like Market Science, though, so I would expect you could make a couple of displays (with mostly pictures and infographics), a handout that goes into a little more detail, a very hands-on activity (preferably one that produces something they can take home), and a spiel you can give the ones who are feeling like intellectuals and don't want to do the activity while sipping their craft beers.

My hemoglobins didn't tell me where they were going. They weren't abnormally low, just too low to donate. Which is a thing that happens, I guess. I'm going to eat iron/vitamin C supplements until I get weird side effects so I can try to donate again in a few weeks.

Noooo!!!! It's not about competition with other people! It's competition with yourself! The other people are just for fun and accountability. Seriously, all I did today was pushups, crunches and some one-leg squats. Not intimidating.

I had a really weird dream. We were taking mounted clarinet lessons at home (we started with just clarinet and riding lessons for safety). Mr. Gunderson from high school was administering a very difficult written test on the subject. Then Dad had Warren start decorating the dome with anarchist propaganda because Trump was planning to come join our mounted clarinet lessons and we didn't want to look like Trump supporters. He arrived in a Hummer limo. He was surprisingly decent at the clarinet, but he didn't know how to ride. He was not impressed by the state of our barn (we were practicing by the hydrant).

If I get more deets I'll pass them on. Those sound like things I could do? But I'm not sure about making my own boards, since this is a real live museum. Don't want to look bad at crafting in a real live museum. Do I have to interact with the craft beer crowd?

Pushups, crunches, and one-leg squats are intimidating. You can dot so many pushups because you are more swole than me. Speaking of swole, have you been using your resident ninja's pull-up bar?

That sounds like an unpleasant dream, but not, like, a normal unpleasant dream. The sort of dream that gets worse the more you think about it. It's certainly getting worse the more I think about it. Don't let Trump touch our horses.

Yesterday I broke out in a nasty rash that kept me up scratching all night, and today it got so bad I fled the office to get Benadryl and rip my skin off in peace! Yay!

You could use somebody else's boards, I guess. If there is alcohol near science, craft beer seems inevitable.

You don't have to do the same exercises as me. Many things offer a variety of point values. And I know you can do plenty of crunches. I haven't been using the bar because it's depressing that I can only do a cheating pull-up. Cheating pull-ups don't count for points.

It was decidedly abnormal. I don't want more Trump dreams.

Do you know what caused the rash? I'm not sure Benadryl actually helps with rashes. It's not listed on the bottle. Or not on the generic.

When did your pull-up become a cheating pull-up? It was presented without modifiers when last I heard of it.

I don't want Trump in my dreams, ever. Not once. You didn't eat something weird before bed, did you?

The internet, including the Benadryl official site, says Benadryl helps with rashes. An antihistamine is an antihistamine, after all, and supposedly histamines are the cause of the symptoms of rashes.
I'm pretty sure I got the rash because I didn't take the "Do not expose skin to direct or prolonged sunlight" warning on my acne medication seriously. I foolishly slathered it over my chest and then spent time outside this weekend. I think this is the same type of rash I had this summer, which coincides with when I started using the acne medication and when I was spending time outside. It's a working hypothesis.

You're supposed to start from a dead hang. I looked it up. They couldn't possibly have been correct, and I've since tried a correct one and failed.

Nooooope. Trump out of nowhere. Be afraid.

Huh. Sounds like you did a foolish thing and you have been punished. Sorry about that.

I want to color paisleys. I like paisleys. Do you like paisleys? I colored some paisleys at DeCongestant and I want to do more of them.