split down the middle, and not all squishy on one side

[sergebroom]

I just came back from the nearby science & engineering fair. That was interesting although most of what I did was to stroll down the aisles and glance at the various booths. Let's be honest. I probably wouldn't have understood most of what the kids were doing so why make them waste their time? What was interesting is that the gender distribution was split down the middle between boys and girls - and quite a few of the latter wearing a Middle-Eastern scarf over their hair. And there was no noticeable gender split according to the nature of the disciplines where young ladies would focus on biology and all that squishy stuff, and young men on physical sciences. In fact, one of the most crowded exhibits was by a girl talking about balls of lightning.

I was disappointed in one respect.

Not a single death ray. Not a single giant robot. The closest to that was a robotic fishing rod.