Build your own sextant
Worried about getting lost on the beltway? Don't trust new-fangled GPS receivers? Well, just get one of those useless AOL cds, some lego bricks, and a couple mirrors; and you can build your own sextant, and navigate by the stars. This looks like a pretty cool little project, and one I will certainly undertake in a couple years when my boy is old enough to appreciate it.
Hat tip: James Rummel of Hell in a Handbasket.
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Better start teaching the kid
Better start teaching the kid from Bowditch's Practical Navigator ASAP, B; he'll need the trig. If it's a Naval life for him, you'll need him to sail as a cabin boy with a reputable captain as soon as he can read, figure, and get his sea legs. I recommend Lucky Jack Aubrey, late of the Sophie and the Boadicea. He's light with the lash and a fine mentor to boot.
People as improbably clever
People as improbably clever as this sextant-smith ought to be provided with space in the Catastratorium. We will need his navigation skills, particularly after the submersion of the Earth.
I emailed the director of the Atlantis branch about adding him to the "snatch list", the people marked for kidna...erm...relocation...by the Ministry Special Retrievals Unit on the eve of Armageddon.
No response yet.