Well, I’m back… I was away for SteelyKid’s 5-week birthday, but Kate was good enough to get the bison picture for the week. I got in late last night, and only got a bleary half-hour of baby-calming in at 2:30am, but even that was enough to reconfirm that she’s the cutest baby in the universe.… Continue reading Homecoming Baby Blogging 091308
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On-The-Road Baby Blogging
I’m having a great time at this week’s conference, but I still find myself missing SteelyKid. Which is kind of amazing, really, as she’s only been around for five weeks, and she’s mostly just slept, cried, eaten, and soiled an astonishing number of diapers. And yet, how can I not miss this: Really, if babies… Continue reading On-The-Road Baby Blogging
Belated Baby Blogging 090608
We went down to visit Kate’s parents on Wednesday, so I wasn’t able to post the weekly bison-for-scale picture. I did get one, though, so here it is a few days late: This also gives us a chance to show off her “Smart Cookie” onesie, which I picked up because it’s a nice break from… Continue reading Belated Baby Blogging 090608
Baby Soothing Open Thread
We’re taking SteelyKid on her first road trip today, down to Boston to visit Kate’s parents for a few days. This ought to be interesting, as the drive is approximately as long as her longest naps. The disruption in her normal routine may or may not lead to an increased need for baby-calming, so this… Continue reading Baby Soothing Open Thread
Find a Pattern
What’s this graph? The cosmic microwave background? Preliminary results from the LHC? No, it’s SteelyKid’s feeding schedule. The horizontal axis is in days since we brought her home, the vertical axis is time of day on a 24-hour scale (in half-hour bins), and the color scale indicates the duration of the feeding in minutes. If… Continue reading Find a Pattern
Babies Are Quantized
As anybody who has studied Quantum Optics knows, correlation functions play a very large role in our understanding of the behavior of light. Roughly speaking, the correlation function tells you how likely you are to detect a second photon some short time after detecting one photon from some source. This shows up in the famous… Continue reading Babies Are Quantized
Thursday Baby Blogging 082808
Here’s your scaled baby picture for the week: OK, “scaled” isn’t entirely appropriate, as I haven’t bothered to keep Appa a constant size in these, but it is the weekly picture of SteelyKid with her standard reference bison. She continues to grow at an impressive rate, thanks to inheriting her father’s appetite. Kate’s been making… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 082808
The Transitive Property
Total strangers keep congratulating me on the birth of SteelyKid. No, not people on the Internet, people in real life. We have a standard dog-walking route that we take Emmy on every night, and Kate and I usually do the evening walk together. Of course, Kate’s not coming along on those now, and now people… Continue reading The Transitive Property
Curiosity
Curious Baby says “I wonder what happens when I press this?” She’s going to end up a scientist, like her old man…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
“I think so, SteelyKid, but what if the rhinoceros doesn’t want to be milked?”