Sunday, October 29, 2006

Roll Over, Beethoven

Stuart rolled over yesterday. Johanna and I were ecstatic. Stuart, on the other hand, was furious. I could hear the internal dialog.

"All that work! All that work and what do I get for it?!? My arm trapped underneath me and a face full of carpet! Damn it! Somebody get me a boob!"

OK, maybe he wouldn't have sworn, but his sister has taken to it so well, I figure it's only a matter of time.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Oh Holy Zombie

Last night was last Thursday, and right before Halloween. This explains why there were Zombies dancing to Thriller in the parking lot of the Co-op last night. Needless to say, this spawned an interesting conversation about Zombies. Here are the highlights:

Tory: Daddy, what is a Zombie?
Daddy: It's a dead person who doesn't have the good common sense to fall down.
...
T: Are there really Zombies?
D: No baby.
T: Why not?
D: When people die, they tend to just lay there. When they don't, they come alive again. They don't stay dead and start moving around.
T: Was Jesus a Zombie?
D: No baby. Jesus was something else.

This explanation seemed to satisfy her.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Children Routed Over to Urgent-care Pediatrician (C.R.O.U.P)

or Out and Back not in the Same Day

Last night, Tory had a coughing fit at 10:30. She had had sniffles on Friday and Saturday, and had a cough and sniffles on Sunday. Nothing noteworthy, until 10:30. When I got there, she was sitting upright, tears and snot streaming down her face, and barking like a dog after a squirrel. A quick web search and phone call later, we were on our way to the ER. There, they made her suck on a humidifier and gave her some "juice" laced with steroids. We were back home by 12:45, and everyone was asleep by 1:30 AM. Needless to say, Johanna, Stuart and Tory are sleeping in, Tory is staying home from school, and I am sucking on a double toddy (read "really strong coffee"). Some things of note:

  1. The doctor told us that warm moist air is BAD. As he put it "it is a great way to promote respiratory failure." I guess we won't do THAT again.
  2. Decongestants, antihistamines, and expectorants will cause croup to GET WORSE. Silly us!
  3. Cough suppression is OK, but use with care. It may promote pneumonia.

Interesting Assault on Bayesian Filters

Just got this spam. I thought the filter avoildal technique was interesting. Seems to be random chuncks of usenet postings. It took me a miniute to make sure that this wasn't real e-mail. In my defense, I am tired and knocked up on cough medicine. More on that later.

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To: <not@bloody.likely>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:43:44 +0200


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Saturday, October 21, 2006

The Cutest Little Boy Ever

I have just gotten done making my first YouTube video. It is of Stuart making cute little noises to try and convince me not to feed him to the wolves. It worked.

Electoral-Vote.Com

I just rediscovered my favorite place to watch election polling data. This guy, while leaning left, is a scientist first. He gives you all the data he uses to draw his conclusions, and all of the algorithms. Check him out!

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Saturday Morning Wisdom

"I'm going to teach Stuart his name.  Stuart, your name is Stuart."


"We are the increasingly nonexistent family."
<laughter>
"I dunno.  I feel increasingly existent"
"We are the increasingly rare family.  I cannot be expected to be coherent before 7:30."


"I don't know why I think glow-in-the dark is so cool."
"Because it glows."

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Hair Apparent

Johanna is shedding.

You see, a women's hair often grows quicker when she is pregnant. Johanna's certainly did. Sometimes, after birth, some of this extra hair will fall out. Hers is. In sheets. Well, not really. It isn't coming out in clumps, and there is no sign of her going bald any time soon, but the amount she loses every day is astonishing. This is the exchange I had with her on the topic:

"Honey. I don't mind if you go bald. I mean, I don't want you too or anything, but if you do, it will not change how I feel about you. The process, however, I mind."

"I know! Every time I do anything with my hair, I've got to pull it off my hands." (I wish I could show you the face and gesture that goes with this statement. It was most illuminating.) "I wash my hair and I've got to pull it off my hands. I rinse my hair and I've got to pull it off my hands. I get my hair wet to do it in the morning and I've got to pull it off my hands. I put gel in it and I've got to pull it off my hands, but now it's all sticky! Blech!"

I decided to dispense with the remainder of my complaint.

The Once and Future Costume

I love the internet.

We managed to find the costume again. The store Costume Craze had it in stock and in the right size! w007! I waited to tell you all till we got the shipping notification.

For those that forgot, here it is again.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Tory the Cyclops

So, there was a morning earlier this week where Tory was:

  • a mannequin, so that Joh and I could get her PJs off and clothes on.
  • a robot, who helped me get breakfast out.
  • a cyclops, because she had to put on her patch.

Now, since Tory was wearing her pirate shirt and pirate patch, some people assumed she was a pirate. Not so! She was still a cyclops, or as she put it "an ugly giant with only one eye." At lunch, the peas in her lunch were princesses, who then got eaten by the cyclops.

A Smiting I Shall Go

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Princess or Pirate

Tory has chosen her Halloween costume. She was going to be a pirate, but then there was the event at the optometrist. The assistant said "What are you going to be for Halloween?" Then without giving her a change to respond, the lady says "A princess?" That was all the convincing Tory needed. Joh was livid. She has visions of pirate themes for everything, and then gets a princess dropped on her.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Scissor Sisters

I am fascinated by the Scissor Sisters right now. Not sure what that says about me or them.