This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Sundry and Various Thoughts
Feb
20
2019
Here are some thoughts I jotted down that aren’t quite sufficient for their own individual blog posts. If you’re the type of person who likes Twitter, pretend each of these are tweets.
- “Dollar-cost averaging” could be summarized as “two wrongs don’t make a right, but lots of little wrongs are okay”.
- No, the station is not supported by viewers like me. Viewers like me never contribute anything.
- I wonder how many parents would pay extra for Lego sets to be in silent packaging. Just for the fun of being able to surprise kids with Legos for Christmas or birthday presents.
- Now the other way is easy: any present can be made to sound like it is a box of Legos by throwing a handful of Legos (excuse me, Lego bricks) into the box. Or buy a small box of Legos and wrap it together with the other surprise present. Any shaking of said present will then produce a Lego sound and the child will not expect the non-Lego gift.
- If “cat” is pronounced “cat” and “cate” sounds like “kate”, why isn’t “caterpillar” pronounced “kay-ter-pillar”? Shouldn’t it be spelled “catterpillar”?
Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
Luke 11:11
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:57 am and has been carefully placed in the Uncategorized category.
March 1st, 2019 at 8:20 pm
Read anything by John McWhorter. You’ll learn everything you want about how language evolves. (Although I guess I haven’t seen him talk about cat and caterpillar, so maybe not everything.)