I was just making a joke. I was raised on sesame street, 321 contact, electric company, mr rogers land of the weird, square one, muppet show, plenty of tv.
He'll be the only one laughing when his kids are making the big bucks with the Army Corps of Engineers juggernaut with all that lincoln log and dirt moving experience, while your kids are singing barney tunes and saying things like undisclosed location.
further south, you could also crash the Sunhogs annual Memorial Day party at North Sister in Oregon. For 20 years, groups have camped at treeline below the villard glacier. the requirements are simple: 1/2 case of beer minimum & lawnchair. the numbers have been dwindling apparently, so perhaps this could revive the cause.
hmmm...okay 3M sells this blue liquid non-conductive refrigerant for hundreds of dollars a gallon. You can drop running computers into it and they keep running "underwater". They also petitioned my ecology advisor to study the compounds secreted by freshwater mussels to attach themselves to rocks for the next breakthrough in adhesive technology. 3M does some funky stuff. And they have clocks, lots of em.