Chiefly, this: Also, this: Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers; the rest of you, have a lovely Thursday.
Category: Video
Dinosaur Baby
I have a whole slew of grading that I need to do, so here’s some baby video to keep you entertained: While it may not sound that way, this is SteelyKid in a very, very good mood. The high-pitched dinosaur shrieks are happy shrieks. And the silly baby running is very cute.
Physics Is Going to the Dogs
There’s been an independent rediscovery of the notion of using dogs to explain physics, as you can see in this YouTube video of Golden Retrievers explaining the structure of atoms: Emmy thinks she should get royalties, in the form of cheese. But then, she thinks that about everything…
An Important Public Service Announcement
If you want to be a musician, there are some simple rules you must follow: And now you know…
The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
Via somebody on a mailing list, Eric Whiteacre’s virtual choir: The post I got this from doesn’t contain any details, nor does it contain useful links to the making of this particular video, but looking around the top level of the blog it’s fairly clear that this was put together from a large number of… Continue reading The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
Thursday Baby Blogging 101509
SteelyKid has cast Appa aside in favor of bigger and better things: That’s right. She’s not allowed to have candy yet, but she’s already gearing up for Halloween… The pumpkin bucket is actually a bribe– I bought it for her to play with while we waited for her prescription to be filled yesterday. This is… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 101509
Basketball Baby
One of the nice things about being a parent is getting to introduce SteelyKid to my own obsessions. Like, for example, the great game of basketball: “You want me to throw this how high?” Maybe we’ll stick with something a little smaller for now: (Hey to Todd Clark, who gave us the toy hoop…)
55 Weeks in 120 Seconds
Here’s some cute to get your Sunday off to a good start: the first 55 weeks of Thursday Baby Blogging pictures strung together into a movie showing the growth of SteelyKid: (Thursday of week 20 was Christmas Day, and there are limits to even my geekery. I don’t know what happened to Week 41.) It’s… Continue reading 55 Weeks in 120 Seconds
Barney Frank Is Not Amused
The results, however, are amusing for the rest of us: It’s nice to see somebody in a safe district taking advantage of essentially having tenure. We could use more of this.
March of the (Wooden) Penguins
One of SteelyKid’s birthday gifts from my parents was a wheeled wooden penguin on a stick. If you roll it along the ground, the wings flap, with a very satisfying clacking noise. It took SteelyKid a little while to get the hang of it, but she’s got the idea now: Really, I don’t have anything… Continue reading March of the (Wooden) Penguins