I wanted to make a cute animated gif to comemorate the recent eclipse:


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So My son has been playing with levers (lifting the couch and other heavy objects). I come home for lunch and see a beam sticking out from under the couch.

Aayan: I've been making levers. With the stool... ummm... fulcrum...
me: yeah.
Aayan: I made two things! I made one a lever! Umm... the other one isn't. I made invention, you gotta see!

(after a ( Read more... )

Okay, saw this list and it just shut my brain down. I could not think about anything else, so in an attempt to get this out of my head and move past this, I will put down the list here ( Read more... )

...So Aayan voted yesterday. Actually, I voted, but Aayan got to see the whole thing and press "next" and "confirm" [he read it 'confeerm'] on the panel ( Read more... )

I got this working theory that some lies are more sticky simply because of their ridiculousness. I've been looking at many lies that are strangely logically inconsistant in a radically obvious way, for example ( Read more... )

Hilmi: "There once was a very poor boy, who couldn't-- his family couldn't buy any food to eat ( Read more... )

We were just reading his kid encyclopedia and there is an entry on computers:

A: "CD dot com--No wait, that's not a 'c'. CD dot rom? Where is CD dot rom?"

M: "No, it's CD-ROM, for burning CD's"

A: "Like DVD's?"

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A: "Printer, Scanner, Flop-floppy... disc(?) What's a floppy disc? Do we have those?"

I just read about the cultural phenomenon of 'red shirting' children (no idea what it has to do with red shirts ( Read more... )

A friend of a friend summed up my feelings about it pretty nicely in one article:

Newsweek guest voice.This last week has been like a stab in the heart. I am reminded of the split lips and bloody noses I had to endure growing up in America when these kinds of things were flying around in the media, and my heart breaks for the kids who *I am ( Read more... )

Today morning (about his not being allowed to go to a party): "You just don't understand my feelings ( Read more... )