The Life Explained Test Schedule, pay attention, there will be a Quiz!

Tomorrow is the pretest for the final exam which will be in several weeks. Tomorrow's test will cover the core of Life as an entity, including the myriad variations involved in the evolution of society from the beginning of time.

It would be wise to look over the background material, this blog and the other blogs in the Life Explained universe, paying particular attention to the posts that will be featured on the test.

This is just a preparatory test, and grades will not count. Unless you get a really good grade and would like to use that, then for a small donation to the Teacher's Retirement Fund of Life Explained we will mark that in the books. For those of you with parents whose income is limited we will consider a summers worth of yard work, or car washes.

For those brave souls who would like to retest, please show up on Saturday, the 25th, and bring coffee, and donuts, or at the very least bagels.

If you are not comfortable with reading, studying, testing or homework, copies of the exam will be on sale in the lobby beginning today at 3:00. You can fill them out at home (no cheating, please) and turn them in tomorrow, or the next day, for an added fee.

We want to see you succeed, tutoring is available in the Old Bucket of Fish Guts Pub tonight between 6:30 and 6:45, after which there will be dancing, and drinking, and carrying on, if you like that sort of thing. We can take or leave it, but we want to be there for you.

It has been a great year, the parts that didn't stink anyway, and we wish you the best in the life that follows your time here, at Life Explained University, where the first round is on us.

Thanks, and remember the frozen burritos are not yours. So keep your hands off, you little thief.

Life Explained, Evolves, Eventually.

Of the many things I am going to emphasize in 2016 is making a more visual presentation online. I have a new camera, and several new apps. It is an exciting time here at the top secret Life Explained world headquarters.

Of course, it is not going to be easy. Looking back at the early days many LE posts did not even have a picture, and many of them that did have a graphic have a blank spot where the picture used to proudly sit. Still not too sure how that happened, it might have been me, it might have been Google, heck it might have been Thor god of thunder, I don't know.

And the few videos I have managed to assemble have been rickety, rough, cobbled together things with little redeeming value. Hope springs eternal, though, and I am blessed with a wonderful capacity for forgiveness. Plus, I am used to forgiving my shortcomings, it has been a hobby for a long time.

Evolution is irresistible,though. Graphics and video production are calling me. Which, I fear, spells big trouble for you, out there in Life Explained Nation. Eventually they will all end up here.

To help build your immunity, sort of a "vaccination," I have decided to take some old pictures and add a little arrow that normally signifies "play" on a video. You can adjust more slowly, and when the videos start rolling in they won't seem so bad.

Here, in one act, Life Explained, the Video*.

*This is only a test, had this been a real video the little arrow on the picture above would have take you to a far, far better place, or not.