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Things my dad taught me
2 to the 8th power is 256. Race car engines are on their sides, and that happened in 1953. Or 1954. Engineers are very creative, and may well be chaos muppets disguised as order muppets. Don’t speed up when cars are trying to pass you on the highway. Don’t worry about what other people are…
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I see you
When the twins were first home, we were given a talking dog toy. The dog was bigger than the babies put together, and was really meant for larger infants. It was cartoony, with big words printed on its ears, stomach, paws, etc. The premise is that the dog is interactive and helps babies learn nursery…
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On Words, sort of
Recently LinkedIn got hacked and a lot of people’s passwords were compromised. And the overwhelming reaction was sort of a cross between a yawn and an eye roll (well, except for the folks at LinkedIn, that is). I was thinking about that when I was driving in to work today. What was the motivation, really?…
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Babies are healthy
I don’t know how to explain it, exactly, but when the twins get sick, they are under the weather for about a day. Sometimes two. Then they’re back and better than ever. Meanwhile, they give whatever they have to me, and I am ill for weeks. Granted, they get a lot more sleep than I…
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Rain
We’ve been having a strange afternoon for rain. It’s been humid and hot for the past few days, and today the towering thunderheads rolled in. For about 15 minutes late this morning there was a brief shower with enormous raindrops. They were just huge. And widely spaced. And about two hours later the rain came…
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The sweetest
Yesterday evening we took the twins to the park before bedtime. We put Eleanor in the swing (Henry was already asleep), and she smiled and yawned as she swung back and forth. That was adorable and sweet. But the sweetest thing was when a little girl, who had come to the park with her dad…
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Growing up happy
I can’t imagine any parent is any different, but I like to believe my little angels are growing up happy. Observe: These are not rare smiles – they are almost always smiling. They are teething just at the moment, so they’re crankier than is normal, but even now they smile and giggle a lot every…
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Heisenberg uncertainty principle for babies
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle for babies states that you can either take a picture of your baby doing something cute now, or see what cute thing the baby is going to do next, but not both. I suppose if we’re going to be technical and correct, the principle would have to apply only to physical…
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Numbers you push
I use the number pad on my keyboard to type numbers a lot of the time (when I’m not using the laptop, in which case I never enable it). I’ve also been on a lot of conference calls lately. I know – I’m extraordinarily lucky, but this is not intended to make you insanely jealous,…
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do
Edited to add: I’m not a programmer or coder. I know a little coding, but don’t think of myself as a fully-professional coder/programmer. I work with HTML (not yet HTML5), CSS and PHP daily. Take a moment to read this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html. The author, Jeff Atwood, makes some excellent points: determine what your problem is; solve…
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