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Abulsme on Grandma S meets Alex:
Now added to my Netflix queue…
matt on Grandma S meets Alex:
it’s like the potato-face people from Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
Abulsme on Ouranos is Coming:
From SM via Facebook: @JS: Which action, the old ones, the new one, or both? @JD: Yes, yes, yes it is. (2 seconds ago)
Abulsme on Ouranos is Coming:
From JD via Facebook: Nice! (8 hours ago)
Abulsme on Ouranos is Coming:
From JS via Facebook: I think I have some of that action in my basement. (9 hours ago)
Abulsme on I Said Don’t Lick Me!:
From SM via Facebook: He did tell ‘em! But he also reaches out to pet Roscoe whenever he gets the chance. (2 seconds ago)
Abulsme on I Said Don’t Lick Me!:
From RMB via Facebook: You tell ‘em, Alex! (Fri at 4:10am)
Abulsme on Ray’s Mystery Trip:
From SM via Facebook: Yeah, one of the big reasons Yucatan hasn’t happened yet is there a big difference planning a trip for one as compared to planning a trip for three… now four…...
Abulsme on Ray’s Mystery Trip:
From ER via Facebook: Now we all need mystery income to support the mystery trip habit. (6 hours ago)
Abulsme on House: Season One: Disk One:
From SM via Facebook: Yes, I think there may well be a shark just waiting for the right opportunity. (2 seconds ago)

Abulsme.com: Four Months in the World mentioned Alex at Three Months saying: with last month, I’ll let Alex share a few of his thoughts on this milestone. This time his comments were
Abulsme.com: Four Months in the World mentioned Four Years in the Jungle saying: on Four Years in the Jungle: From SM via Facebook: @RMB: Thanks! And I hope the same for yours as you approach your four years.
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Alex and Grandfather M enjoy the Aquarium

2010 Feb 21 23:30 UTC

(Grandma S was very self-concious about which pictures including her were posted online, providing a list of pictures that were "OK". This picture was not on that list so I had to blur her out… so she isn’t "really" in the picture… even though it looks silly. I am being sure to make my choices of which pictures to post uninfluenced by the list she sent, not looking at the list until after I have chosen that I am going to post something, then if it isn’t on the approved list I will just crop her out if I can or blur her face out of the picture if cropping doesn’t work well.)

Hard at Work

I Said Don't Lick Me!

Alex at Five Months

Yes, it is time for the now semi-traditional interview with Alex as he turns another month older. This clip was taken just under two hours before Alex officially turned five months old at 21:04 UTC today (that’s 1:04 PM Pacific, 4:04 PM Eastern), or a little over two hours ago as I post this. (Remember, months are 30.4368499 days long or so… )

Wow, has it really been five months already?

I definitely already can’t remember what life was like without him around.

Alex Loves His Fish

He will sit and happily watch the fish for long stretches of time. Eventually he will get frustrated when he talks and talks and talks to them, but they never answer.

Alex Mass Doubling Time

It was close yesterday, but as of today based on the overall trend line for Alex’s mass…

Alex has doubled in mass!

Anyway, it looks like he is doubling every 148 days.

Assuming an exponential growth pattern…

His mass will exceed my own when he is 1.8 years old.

His mass will exceed that of the Earth when he is 32.6 years old.

Such a big boy!

(Note that this is of course dependent on the exact methodology I use for drawing the trend line, but I like how I draw the line, so I’ll stick to it! It is better than just looking at today’s reading vs the first one right after he was born… human mass fluctuates and there is non-trivial experimental imprecision, so it is important to look at trends over a bunch of data points, not individual readings. And I’ll be sticking to the idea that his growth will be exponential, even though you can clearly see that the shape of the curve is not exponential. I’m sure that is just an anomaly, and it will become exponential any time now. )

Things I Have Learned Recently

How to roll over.
How to take off my own socks.
How to drink from a sippy cup I hold by myself.
How to drive Mom’s car.

Enjoying a Good Book

Israel Playing Games With American Lives 11 March 2010
The idea that they’re still pushing settlements now is amazingly ludicrous. Thankfully the vice president apparently made that clear. People who heard what Biden said were stunned. ‘This is starting to get dangerous for us,’ Biden castigated his interlocutors. ‘What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan […]
owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)
11-Year-Old Asks Members of Congress to Support Reform: "The health care system is broken and it caused my mother's death." 11 March 2010
As members of Congress ready for a vote on health reform, today they heard from 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, whose mother died in 2007 because she lacked health insurance.Tiffany Owens suffered from pulmonary hypertension, which forced her to stop work, and in turn, she lost her medical benefits. She spent the final part of her life fighting for health insura […]
Erica Sagrans
To Move, or Not to Move? 11 March 2010
Since Wolfram|Alpha’s launch in May 2009, one of its most talked-about features has been its ability to compute specific answers to questions about math, chemistry, economics, demographics, and much more. But as its knowledge base continues to grow, it’s also able to highlight interesting and useful connections between data sets, and to reveal information th […]
C. Alan Joyce
SitBy.Us 11 March 2010
Speaking of SXSW, if you’re going, you’re going to love SitBy.us, an iPhone-optimized web app from Weightshift. As they describe it: If you’ve ever been to SXSW Interactive, you know that it can be difficult to find where your friends are sitting in a panel, particularly in the massive auditoriums and the notorious 18BCD. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to le […]
John Gruber
The Return of the Hard Rock Cafe 11 March 2010
www.hardrock.comOn the readerboard: "HELLO SEATTLE WE ARE READY TO ROCK" If you call the new Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Seattle, you might get this answer: "Hard Rock Cafe, this is Pete—how can I rock you?" Each and every Hard Rocker—this is what employees are called, according to a sign in the bathroom directing them to wash their hands— […]
editor@thestranger.com (Bethany Jean Clement)
Set your alarm clocks, iPad pre-orders begin 5:30 AM PST 11 March 2010
According to an Apple PR rep, customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12. That's 8:30 AM for you East Coasters. All models will be available for pre-order and wifi models will arrive on April 3rd, 3G models in late April. We'll have a link as soon as it becomes available. via TUAW. […]
Mark Gurman
The new Apple Remote and its unibody construction 11 March 2010
Apple’s new remote for MacBooks and Apple TV is nothing revolutionary, but its construction is impressive for a remote. Apple gave it the unibody treatment: besides the three button areas, the IR transmitter, and the battery door on the bottom, there are no glued seams or screws anywhere. It is truly a unibody Apple Remote. […]
David Chartier
Grammar Police 11 March 2010
Ezra Klein: Like most bloggers, I'm not too fond of e-mails correcting my grammar. Really? I like getting emails about grammar and spelling. I mean, don't be a dick or anything, but if there's a mistake to be corrected or a usage issue to be debated, bring it on. We strive for linguistic greatness around here.15 Comments | Post Comment […]
Kevin Drum
How Your Twitter Account Could Land You In Jail 11 March 2010
But the protesters had their own crowd-control methods, and that's what had brought the state troopers to the CareFree Inn. What they found when they broke down the door were a couple of middle-aged housemates from Queens, New York. Elliott Madison sat at a desk with a laptop and a cell phone. A police scanner lay nearby. Michael Wallschlaeger was at th […]
The Huffington Post News Editors
Aerogel chunks in Boing Boing Bazaar 11 March 2010
Now in the Boing Boing Bazaar: chunks of aerogel! $50 buys you a pair of aerogel discs. Silica aerogel, the infamous and ethereal material comprised of up to 99.98% air, can be yours at last. Known for its superinsulating abilities, ultralow density, and its use on the Mars rovers, silica aerogel is just one member of the amazing class of materials known as […]
Mark Frauenfelder

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