I watched the 8 videos of Dr. Albert A. Bartlett’s presentation on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy on the youtube, and I was way creeped out. Doc was all about trying to get people to viscerally feel what happens when you have an exponential growth rate. And he did a nice job with examples, and charts, [...]
We have taken steps, but not on a regular basis. He still likes to crawl most places, but occasionally he’ll decide to take a step or two. One time he did maybe 6 steps. We keep trying to get him to walk, but mostly he ignores us and does as he pleases.
Oh and we are [...]
Here is a most interesting article describing research linking autism rates in children with television watching.
The Cornell team searched for some independent measure of increased television viewing. In recent years, leading behavioral economists such as Caroline Hoxby and Steven Levitt* have used weather or geography to test assumptions about behavior. Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]
Mimi Trish bought Isaac a little wagon for his birthday, and he has taken to pushing it endlessly back and forth across the attic. He’s gotten quite good at extricating it from nooks and crannies where it sticks, showing off some new motor skills. I took a loooooong video of him messing around with the [...]
Last weekend was damn hot, so we filled up the kiddie pool for Isaac to splash in. He approached it somewhat tentatively, not perceiving as a giant bath tub like I expected. But he seemed to enjoy reaching over the side to give the water a splash or two. Also note the cool swim togs [...]
Hooray! Isaac is one year old today. Why it seems like only yesterday that Blossom had me pull over at three in the morning so she could have a contraction on the side of the road. Today was a mostly normal day. We did give Mr. J. a few new birthday toys, but he was [...]
This weekend Mimi Trish came to visit. We had a lovely time, managing the boy and eating and drinking. Standard family encounter. We went to the Stone Zoo on Saturday. The grownups looked at the animals and Isaac looked at all the people. Then on Sunday we had the main event: a real haircut for [...]
Too bad we spent 6 billion dollars on the Iraq war instead of this:
