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.
You’re Mocking Me, Aren’t You?
Apr
4
2013
I will also laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your dread comes,
Proverbs 1:26
Archive for 2013
Count to 31
Apr
2
2013
I recently had occasion to be scorekeeper for a kickball game. The usual scorekeeper advised me to have one team’s score on each hand and when the teams switch sides for kicking or fielding, then I was to swap hands so that the hand closest to that team had that team’s score.
It was an easy enough concept, but I have only 5 fingers on each hand so I was hoping for a low-scoring game. My backup plan, if the score went above 5, was to use sign language. I know enough ASL to be able to count to 10 on one hand.
The problem was the final score was 17-16. I had to count to 10 for each team and then I had to start back at one and remember to add 10.
After the game, I got to thinking of how I could have handled each team’s score on one hand. My solution for how to keep score with one hand?
Count in binary, using each finger as a bit.
For 5 bits, the maximum count is 31, so I can now handle a score of up to 31 to 31.
My recommendation is to use your left hand palm-down and your right hand palm-up so that the LSB is on the right, as it should be. I practiced, and I found that although the bits are in correct order if you use your thumb as bit 0, it’s harder to read. I keep my thumbs as bit 4 because I don’t have to move them as much that way.
Here’s a diagram:
The first pair of hands shows the standard binary form. The second pair of hands shows the decimal equivalent, for those familiar with the concept of places. Instead of 10s place, 100s place, 1000s place, etc., we have 1s place, 2s place, 4s place, 8s place, and 16s place.
| Bit | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the giant.
2 Samuel 21:20
Burn Kit
Mar
28
2013
I haven’t had much training in emergency medical situations, but I did have something back in high school health class. And various bits and pieces of knowledge that I picked up over the years, especially being a parent.
The one piece of advice I remember about burns is this:
Do not put butter on burns!
All my knowledge about what to do with burns consists of that – do not put butter on them. I have no idea what I am supposed to put on burns – I know only what NOT to put on them.
In order to help those of you who have the same problem as I do, I have decided to put together burn kits that you can keep in your house or car or wherever you think you might need them. That way, you won’t have to think about what you are supposed to put on burns – it will be right there for you.
Here is my first prototype:
Like I said, put something that’s not butter on burns, right?
But if the bright spot remains in its place and has not spread in the skin, but is dim, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burn.
Leviticus 13:28
Font-fil-A
Mar
26
2013
Eat Mor Font
Now that no one is talking about Chick-fil-A anymore, it’s time to announce that Font Grill has released a new font.
Introducing: Font-fil-A
Go download Font-fil-A.
You know what goes well with a chikin font? Potatoes and kern.
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, and this is a distinguishing mark in every letter; this is the way I write.
2 Thessalonians 3:17
Worst Piñata Ever
Mar
21
2013
This post was inspired by a radio commercial. I forget which company it was or what they were trying to sell. It said something along the lines of “hitting a hornet’s nest like a piñata”.
Now available on T-shirts! Go buy some Worst Piñata Ever merchandise on Printfection.
Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.
Deuteronomy 7:20
Confusing Songs
Mar
19
2013
We have been listening to a lot of a particular CD of children’s songs lately, so I have some of them floating around in my head.
I will share them with you here, so that you too may have them floating around in your head. I think research has shown that if you can get a song stuck in someone else’s head, it leaves your own head.
Old MacDonald
Old MacDonald had a farm and Bingo was his name-o.
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
and Bingo was his name-o.
Song of Many Lyrics
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky
Now I know my A-B-Cs
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
Head and Shoulders on the Bus
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes.
Knees and toes.
Knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, round and round
All through the town
I wonder how many people are named “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt”?
Actually, I wonder how many people have the name of “Jingleheimer”. If that is anywhere in your name, I doubt it matters what your first or last name is.
and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,
Acts 16:20
Chimpansy
Mar
14
2013
Just don’t call him that to his face.
Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Job 14:2
