“What’s SteelyKid doing for amusement now that the weather is all nice and stuff?,” you ask. Well, here’s your answer: she’s giving her sky-bison rides on the swing in the back yard: “Wait a minute,” you say, “isn’t it, like, 80 degrees there? Why’s she wearing a coat?” Look, man, when the Empress decides she… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 040810
Category: Personal
144 Miles/ Day
So, this was my weekend: Saturday: Drive to my parents’ with Kate and SteelyKid for Easter. Sunday: Drive back to Niskayuna with Kate, leaving SteelyKid with Grandma and Grandpa Monday: Teach my 9:15 class, then drive to Ithaca to give a physics colloquium at Cornell, then drive back to my parents’, arriving just in time… Continue reading 144 Miles/ Day
Belated Baby Blogging 040210
As I was headed upstairs to bed last night, I stopped in the library, and said “There’s something I ought to be doing…” but couldn’t remember what. This morning, while walking Emmy, it hit me: Baby Blogging! It’s weird that I forgot, because I went to the trouble of taking pictures and everything: This is… Continue reading Belated Baby Blogging 040210
I Have Competitive OCD
SteelyKid is a fan of a web game called BumperStars, which my parents introduced her to. If I’m at the computer doing something, she’ll march over, demand to be picked up, then point at the screen and say “Buh-Pah” until I open it up. Of course, she’s a toddler, and thus has an extremely short… Continue reading I Have Competitive OCD
Spring Term Hat Blogging
It’s grey and dreary here, with an expected high temperature around 50F. That can only mean one thing: Spring has arrived in New England! (You can distinguish spring from winter by the daytime high temperatures– they’re both grey and dreary, but winter is grey, dreary, and cold…) Spring means mud, yard work, and a new… Continue reading Spring Term Hat Blogging
Thursday Baby Blogging 032510
Not as nice a day today as some recent days, but we ended up running around in the backyard all the same. It’s still not really spring, no matter what the astronomers say, but there are a few hardy little weeds poking up flowers that haven’t quite opened yet. SteelyKid already knows what to do… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 032510
Belated March Meeting Wrap-Up
I did one sketchy update from Portland last Tuesday, but never wrote up my impressions of the rest of the March Meeting– when I got back, I was buried in grading, and then trying to put together Monday’s presentation. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I was unable to write anything up before I… Continue reading Belated March Meeting Wrap-Up
Thursday Baby Blogging 031110
SteelyKid says “You know what? Bacon tastes good!” We’ve had a hard time convincing her that anything that isn’t either 1) crunchy, or 2) goopy is food. Cooked vegetables, she’ll pick up, look at, and toss aside laughing. Cooked meat is similarly rejected. This week, though, we discovered that she’ll eat bacon, which evidently is… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 031110
What Should I Do in Portland, Oregon?
I’m going to be attending the March Meeting of the American Physical Society next week, in Portland, OR. This will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, which is apparently on the opposite side of the river from every hotel in the city. I have never been to Portland (or, indeed, anything in the Pacific… Continue reading What Should I Do in Portland, Oregon?
Thursday Baby Blogging 030410
Here we see SteelyKid kickin’ back in her babypod, sharing a meal of Cheerios and dried fruit with Appa: SteelyKid says “You know, Daddy, if we traveled by sky bison, you wouldn’t have to worry about the wiring in your car, and you wouldn’t be faced with driving a giant rental pick-up truck to Vestal… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 030410