Well, not really. That’s four years away. But tonight Alex starts a week long summer camp on Multimedia and Game Creation at UCSD. He’s living in the dorms with a gaggle of kids very much like him. Should be fun. Weird for us, though. This will be only his second time away overnight staying with someone other than friends or relatives.
The class will be using StageCast, which is a direct descendent of Cocoa, a tool that Alex mastered 5 years ago. I hope he finds it challenging enough.
About food, that is. Maybe.
This article in today’s New York Times says that there is no scientific evidence that a low-fat diet does any good and a growing suspicion that it’s responsible for the obvious fattening of America. It rings true to me, and it will be interesting to watch the feathers fly if a whole generation of food experts has to re-examine some fundamental assumptions. Could be a paradigm shift and that always involves some pain. In other realms in the past, a true paradigm shift only happened when the old guard died off. Things move more quickly now.
Personally, I think I’ll move in the direction of an Atkins diet for awhile to see what happens. I’ve certainly got enough excess tonnage to experiment with.