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Transcript of a brief conversation this weekend with my one-year-old daughter: Daddy: Peanut, do you have a poopie-butt, or did you just fart? Peanut: Fut. Daddy: Ah. Very good ….

In a previous post, I wrote that complexity and specification never spontaneously arise unassisted from the chaos of a random non-intelligent source. You’d think that would be a reasonable statement that anyone could agree with, but from time to time … Continue reading →

This morning, our three-year-old was playing with this and had an accidental (and somewhat unpleasant) encounter with positional decimal numbering: Mommy: Nice tower! Can you count the levels? Audie: One, two, three, four …. M: And the numbers are written … Continue reading →

Q: Why does Mr. Squid swim “up to the top” and not “down to the top”? A: Because if he were already at the top, he wouldn’t need to swim up. Q: Why? A: Because he’s below the top, not … Continue reading →

1. Emptying the dishwasher 2. Doing the laundry 3. Fixing a broken door 4. Drywall repair 5. Painting 6. Mowing the lawn 7. Assembling the kids’ trampoline/beds/swimming pool/etc. 8. Cleaning up dog poo … 9,999,999. Writing something that makes people … Continue reading →

Kid: Daddy, where did these pickles come from? Dad: We got them from an old, one-eyed toothless gypsy hag, but only because we correctly answered the following three riddles– Kid: Mommy, where did these pickles come from?

While most Americans would likely consider the foremost practical application of the First Amendment to be that they cannot be prevented from expressing their views, an arguably more important application is that they cannot be forced to express views with … Continue reading →

Story #1: This morning I woke early with a need to poop so urgent that only a morbidly obese Scotsman portrayed by Mike Myers could truly empathize. Ten minutes later when I emerged from the master bathroom, my gaze was … Continue reading →

Stephen Hawking passed away today, so I anticipate a lot of Hawking quotes on the Internet. Most people are not especially conversant in contemporary experimental physics (myself included) and, under the misunderstanding that everything a scientist says is necessarily a … Continue reading →

(Originally posted to Facebook on February 29, 2016 at 12:39 PM) Audie turned 1 year old this past week, and Andy arranged twelve photos of him in sequence, one photo for each month of the past year. The difference between … Continue reading →