My 7-year old, cleaning the playroom with me: Do we have a hot glue gun

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

My 7-year old, cleaning the playroom with me: Do we have a hot glue gun?
Me: Yes… why?
Him: if we glue every object to another object then it’s half as many things to clean up

#ConversationsWithMyKids

[quephird@tech.lgbt]

@caroline OMFG HE'S EITHER A FUTURE MATHEMATICIAN OR COMPUTER SCIENTIST

[srlevine@neuromatch.social]

@caroline Please tell me you responded by pointing out that the total volume of things would be the same.

[forestine@sunny.garden]

@caroline stands to reason

[finalgirl@blackqueer.life]

@SRLevine @caroline DON’T RUIN THE CHILD’S DREAM WITH MATHEMATICAL TRIVIALITIES!

[drliss@toot.lgbt]

@caroline that's a kid with a future in industrial engineering.

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@caroline

The kid has promise. Get him into University asap!

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@caroline technically if you glue every object to another object that's only one object at the end. Though it may be a bit difficult to put away

[pthariensflame@social.treehouse.systems]

@SRLevine @caroline What matters for cleaning is surface area, though, so it’s still an improvement.

[pthariensflame@social.treehouse.systems]

@viq @caroline At that point, by virtue of it being all of the objects and therefore belonging all of the places, it is automatically already put away where it is.

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@pthariensflame @caroline especially if you consider "shelf" or "box", and even more so "room" as "object"

[terryhancock@realsocial.life]

@caroline
That kid is going places!

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@viq @pthariensflame I think the direction I’m getting here is that I need to introduce him to Katamari Damacy

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@caroline Do not show him Katamari Damacy under any circumstances.

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

@caroline @pthariensflame "hey, remember this thing you asked about the glue gun? Some strangers on the internet think you didn't yet take it to its logical conclusion. Here, let me show you"

[Gæst]

@caroline Is he called Calvin, by any chance?

[pauldrye@spacey.space]

@caroline

[davidhmccoy@mastodon.world]

@caroline

The Gordian knot, solved.

[alpacamale@social.cologne]

@caroline If you have a big mirror in the room, the messy room will look twice as messy, but you also clean up twice as fast.

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@viq @caroline depends entirely on whether you're looping over the mutable list of all objects in the room or presorting and looping over a list of pairs of objects.