By the way, Laurie. When Gillian saw your signature line she said, "Hey! Laurie's got an abacus! Just like me!"

Unfortunately it's just about as effective at helping her with her math homework as I am. It sure is hard to teach your own kid. I can teach anyone else's kid math. I teach calculus all the time. But fractions to your own daughter? All hell breaks loose!

Surely I'm not the only one?

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I don't have as many Festools as Fred

Cool!

Did you know that it's possible to solve cube roots on an abacus? Here's how!

(And no, I haven't tried.)

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Laurie
RO 150, DTS 400, CT Mini, Pile o' Card Scrapers, Sextant, Abacus, Chocolate Temperer, 4 Candy Thermometers, Bench Cookies (Double Batch), 15 X-acto Knives, Leatherman Tool (Blue), Various Wire, 3 Fids, A Few Ideas Too Many, 287 Pencils, String

Wow, who knew? Actually, I guess about 600 million Chinese knew.

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a 2009 Festool® catalog, 2010 Festool® catalog supplement requested.

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." - Yogi Berra (1925-)

"Whether you THINK YOU CAN, or THINK YOU CAN'T, You're right!"

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." Confucius (551-479 BCE) philosopher

That would be about 20% of the population.....
sounds about right.

My brain hurts.

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I don't have as many Festools as Fred

I was shooting for 19%.

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a 2009 Festool® catalog, 2010 Festool® catalog supplement requested.

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." - Yogi Berra (1925-)

"Whether you THINK YOU CAN, or THINK YOU CAN'T, You're right!"

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." Confucius (551-479 BCE) philosopher