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

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@SRLevine

As would their surface area.

But! Even if the objects are larger and have more complex surfaces, there are still fewer of them. This makes it easier to move them aside when cleaning the surface they're on (floor, countertop, etc) or collect them into a storage container.

The little one's logic is sound.

@caroline @FinalGirl

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@viq

If you glue each object to another object, then you end up with *at most* half as many objects.

Each object could be glued to exactly one other object, in which case you get n÷2 objects. Gluing each object to two other objects results in n÷3 objects. Gluing all objects together results in n÷n objects, i.e. one object.

@caroline

[daveography@yeg.bike]

@caroline

Work smarter not... no wait I guess that would still be harder too

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@caroline

If y’all haven’t played Katamari Damacy…you should.

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@Daveography well it’s hot glue so it’s not working harder, more like working tackier

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@caroline admirable logic, but teachable moment about picking the wrong metric

[da_gut@dice.camp]

@caroline he’s not wrong….

[what@chaosfem.tw]

@caroline just tell me how you get a 7 year old to clean a playroom

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@what in this extremely rare case he was highly motivated because tomorrow this room will become new baby bunny home base, and needed to be completely clear and cleaned

but yeah no the rest of the time it’s just desperate forms of bribery with a near-0% success rate

[lindasgoluppiart@mastodonapp.uk]

@caroline He's going to rule the world!

[devlinleathercraft@mastoart.social]

@caroline This child will be going places.

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@caroline Simple Ways To Understand Object-Oriented Compilers

a new book by O'Reilly

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@caroline why stop there though? Why not glue everything to everything else so you only have one thing to put away

[feministmom@eldritch.cafe]

@caroline The kid has grasped the concept of entropy! 🤩

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@caroline potential in silicon valley

[trinsec@trinsec.org]

@caroline@chaosfem.tw Did you tell him then he'd only have half as many toys?

[wordman@dice.camp]

@caroline Introduce kiddo to “bins”, and their magical ability to turn “many things” into “one thing”.

[jhaas@a2mi.social]

@caroline Time for an introduction to a retro game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy

[gwcoffey@mastodon.social]

@caroline Priceless. Reminds me of the time I told my four year old she could only bring one stuffed toy with her to the park. She slipped into her closet, shut the door, then emerged a few minutes later with five or six all looped together with a clip into on monster-stuffie.

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@jhaas I’m so pleased that myself and several others in the replies all had the same thought, what a perfect game

I do have to budget for replacing all the controllers that will be destroyed in frustrated rage though