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An infant that buds all four top incisors at the same time can wear you out.
On the up side, I noticed the older daughter being upset in her bedroom upstairs, investigated, found her in a puddle of barf due to some stomach bug, gave her a bath, washed the sheets, and settled her back down - all without Mommy waking up.
Now all I need is a trick to get the infant back to sleep at night.
Sometimes I wonder how the human race survives.
Between not doing news, not looking at religious sites, and being busy otherwise, I have neither the time nor the inclination to flog the usual dead horses. It’s not like I’m on the verge of a philosophical breakthrough, anyway.
I was browsing through a couple of bookstores on Saturday and I came across a book that I had a very, very small part in ....
I was one of the respondents in one of the surveys (the one in 2000) that yielded the stats for the book.
So, I picked the book up. I’ve only read the first chapter so far ...
Anybody know of a nice, friendly editor with a good vertical cut and paste feature?
I have m.exe that came with my ms fortran years ago, that i keep moving onto my new machines that does the trick ... but i’ve long since lost the documentation for it ...
Nothing too deep, but kind of cute:
According to this new Slate article, a researcher has posited a new theory about the origins of the female orgasm: that it’s just a happy coincidence, based only on the close similarity women’s genitalia have to men’s (and we all know the men HAVE to have their O’s so that the race will endure). Which explains why the whole thing is so haphazard and suboptimally configured.
Which leads me to the comments in this blog:
Was für eine Ausrede: Schatz, tut mir leid, Du bist einfach schon zu weit entwickelt.
I read this article: http://slate.com/id/2119402/
The gist of the article is that if a woman has Hep B she is more likely to give birth to a male child than a female child. For whatever reason, when Hep B is present there are a disparate number of male births. When Hep B is not present in the population the birth rates reflect the standard probabilities.
My understanding of gender determination is that it is determined by men. Yet, this would seem to turn that understanding on its head.
Some of you seem to be into the science thing so I’m asking: Any thoughts on how gender determination could be "switched" by a female having Hep B?
My lovely and talented coworker here in the workshop, Lena, told me a story I’d like to share with you. This happened a while ago, when she was still a girl in a convent school in Lower Bavaria, but not so very long ago, because an ice cream cone already cost at least sixty cents there (sechsig Pfennige).
The abbot of the convent was celebrating his eightieth birthday, and many Church notables came to the event. Among them was the celebrated theologian, Kardinal Ratzinger. Lena was honored to serve him, and he was pleased. He told her she was a good girl (ein braves Mdel) and put a coin in her hand, saying she should buy herself an ice cream cone. He gave her ten cents. Lena wisely thought to herself that the gesture was “lieb gemeint” (well meant) but “weltfremd” (unworldly, no idea what ice cream cost). That pretty much sums up my opinion of Benedict XVI.
Lena calls him “Ratzinger der X Pfenniger” (Ratzinger the 10 Center)
Der Spiegel currently runs a story about a secret mission of German special forces in Afghanistan (well, it’s not so secret anymore, is it?) in the context of Enduring Freedom.
The following remark sticks out:
Beim letzten Einsatz, der vor eineinhalb Jahren endete, hatte es eine interne Weisung gegeben, mutmaßliche Terroristen nicht zu verhaften, um sie nicht an die Amerikaner ausliefern zu müssen, die wegen ihres Umgangs mit Kriegsgefangenen international scharf kritisiert werden.
Rough translation: “During the last mission that ended one-and-a-half years ago, there was an internal order not to arrest suspected terrorists to avoid having to surrender them to the Americans, who were sharply criticised internationally because of their treatment of POWs.”
One of the best things about taking a break is a chance to read (stuff that ain’t related to work) for prolonged periods.
I decided to go for a couple of 20th century classics:
The wry humour of Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The gritty short stories of Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find (and other short stories).
A bit of some of the best atheist and some of the best catholic fiction out there.
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