We don’t have SteelyKid watching any kind of baby-oriented tv, because I’d rather be stabbed with a fork than have to listen to the Tellytubbies. We do frequently have the tv on while she’s playing in the living room, though, as we try to catch up on DVR’ed programs. This has led directly to SteelyKid… Continue reading Colbert Nation Baby
Beware the Wild SteelyKid
It’s critically important to be on your guard when exploring our living room at the moment. The wily SteelyKid can strike without warning: Of course, not all of her attacks are quite so violent:
The First Steps Are a Doozy
These aren’t really SteelyKid’s first steps, just the first ones I got on video: She routinely goes farther than that, more confidently than that, but the big lunge at the end is awfully cute. It’s hard to get her really good walks on video, because she always seems to be on the verge of disaster,… Continue reading The First Steps Are a Doozy
Links for 2009-08-01
CHART ATTACK!: 8/1/92 | Popdose “I just read the following in their Wikipedia entry: “In 2009, Boyz II Men announced plans for a new cover album, that covers ‘artists I don’t think people would expect us to cover!’ according to Shawn Stockman.” Can Popdose get in on this? Can we make a list of songs… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-01
Two-Word Lyrics: Proper Name Edition
I should queue up some more PNAS posts, but I think I’m going to save a bunch of them for when we’re at Worldcon. And I do have more serious science-related stuff that I’ve marked to talk about, but it’s Friday, and everybody could use a break. So here’s a silly pop-music thing instead. As… Continue reading Two-Word Lyrics: Proper Name Edition
Precision Measurement Smackdown Explained
Yesterday’s historical physics poll was about precision measurements. Who were those people, and why are they worth knowing about?
The Witten Thing
I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter with Eric Weinstein yesterday, starting with his statement: Ed Witten has no Nobel Prize. Now tell me again how this era’s physics just feels different because we are too close to it. Basically, he appears to feel that Witten is sufficiently smart that he ought to… Continue reading The Witten Thing
Links for 2009-07-31
Guided By Voices | Music | A.V. Club “Dozens of people can say they were members of indie-rock institution Guided By Voices during its 21-year run, but the Dayton, Ohio-based band was chiefly a creative outlet for a music-obsessed former schoolteacher named Robert Pollard. And Pollard was very creative, capable of writing an album’s worth… Continue reading Links for 2009-07-31
Thursday Baby Blogging 073009
It’s really getting difficult to get good Baby Blogging pictures, now that SteelyKid is mobile. We’ve had to resort to trying to sneak Appa into the background when she pauses to regroup by chewing on an outgrown outfit: That’s not the best Appa-for-scale picture, I know, but it’s tough. This one is better, but you… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 073009
Historical Physicist Smackdown: Precision Measurement Edition
Keeping up the string of poll questions about less-well-known physicists (started here), here’s a list of physicists who are known for having made very precise measurements of physical quanitites. Which of them is the best? Which of these physicists who made precision measurements is the best?(poll) (Note: I have deliberately limited this to physicists who… Continue reading Historical Physicist Smackdown: Precision Measurement Edition