was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?

elisabeth, josh and i went for breakfast at cosmos this morning and found a stack of old unused notebooks (circa 1930's?) en route. some of them come with multiplication tables on the back covers, others with informative instructions on how to build a miniature fleet of boats.

if you can't be bothered to read the entire thing, all you need to know is that any Tom, Dick or Helen can accomplish this task by following these simple steps:

* first you find carpenters at work (easy)
* then you collect hundreds of odd-shaped blocks of wood (easy)
* then you whittle (easy)
* then you nail (easy)
* then you paint windows and doors in black (easy)
* then you sail them (gallantly) across the surface of a small body of water (easy)
* repeat dozens of times (gets even easier)

any boy or girl can do this.
any face at all.