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A Happy 47th To You!
Jan. 8th, 2010 07:48 pmMy coworkers brought in white cake with cream cheese frosting and strawberries today. Plus chips and queso and salsa. Plus breakfast tacos. Yea for birthdays and nice coworkers!
In related news, Wikipedia explains, "There exists a 47 society,[4] an outgrowth of a movement started at Pomona College, California, USA, which propagates the belief (or, to some, the inside joke) that the number forty-seven occurs in nature with noticeably higher frequency than other natural numbers, that it is the quintessential random number.[5] The origin of 47 lore at Pomona appears to be a mathematical proof, written in 1964 by Professor Donald Bentley, which supposedly demonstrated that all numbers are equal to 47." Thus, we are all 47. Happy 47th to you! Or, if you prefer, happy random birthday of your choice. (I hope I did not hurt your brain too much with that last sentence.) (Or maybe you are choosing by using a random number generator.)
This just in from my favorite weather source: "Now that we have extremely dry air and clearing skies, the overnight will be dangerously cold. We expect a low near 16* in Austin, but of course that means it will likely be colder for the hills, rural areas, and north towards Waco... those locations will see a low temp range of 7 to 16 degrees." Ha! Danger! When it's well above zero with no snow or ice. I love living here. In fact, I'm basically with raaga123 on this issue, only I prefer ice to snow for fun.
* 16 is really 47 in base 41.
Baby lesson of the day - My teenager niece, T, was playing with my baby niece, A, when I visited yesterday. T was taking movies of herself and A on the phone and playing them back for A. They were both laughing their heads off. But I noticed that not only was A watching the movies and laughing, she was also watching T watch the movies and laughing. She looked at the movies more than she looked at T, but she kept looking back and forth.
I almost never do that. Whenever there's something interesting going on, I'm pretty much always watching the interesting thing and never watching other people. The one exception is when I don't want to be watching the interesting thing, such as during horror movies. I can always tell whether it's safe to start watching the movie again by watching other people's faces. I wonder if there are a lot more situations where I can get additional fun or information by watching how other people are responding.
Sadly, this means peer pressure is already happening at the age of nine months. For several weeks, A wasn't even looking at the interesting things, and now she's not only copying people but specifically watching us for clues on how to act properly. Scary, eh?
In related news, Wikipedia explains, "There exists a 47 society,[4] an outgrowth of a movement started at Pomona College, California, USA, which propagates the belief (or, to some, the inside joke) that the number forty-seven occurs in nature with noticeably higher frequency than other natural numbers, that it is the quintessential random number.[5] The origin of 47 lore at Pomona appears to be a mathematical proof, written in 1964 by Professor Donald Bentley, which supposedly demonstrated that all numbers are equal to 47." Thus, we are all 47. Happy 47th to you! Or, if you prefer, happy random birthday of your choice. (I hope I did not hurt your brain too much with that last sentence.) (Or maybe you are choosing by using a random number generator.)
This just in from my favorite weather source: "Now that we have extremely dry air and clearing skies, the overnight will be dangerously cold. We expect a low near 16* in Austin, but of course that means it will likely be colder for the hills, rural areas, and north towards Waco... those locations will see a low temp range of 7 to 16 degrees." Ha! Danger! When it's well above zero with no snow or ice. I love living here. In fact, I'm basically with raaga123 on this issue, only I prefer ice to snow for fun.
* 16 is really 47 in base 41.
Baby lesson of the day - My teenager niece, T, was playing with my baby niece, A, when I visited yesterday. T was taking movies of herself and A on the phone and playing them back for A. They were both laughing their heads off. But I noticed that not only was A watching the movies and laughing, she was also watching T watch the movies and laughing. She looked at the movies more than she looked at T, but she kept looking back and forth.
I almost never do that. Whenever there's something interesting going on, I'm pretty much always watching the interesting thing and never watching other people. The one exception is when I don't want to be watching the interesting thing, such as during horror movies. I can always tell whether it's safe to start watching the movie again by watching other people's faces. I wonder if there are a lot more situations where I can get additional fun or information by watching how other people are responding.
Sadly, this means peer pressure is already happening at the age of nine months. For several weeks, A wasn't even looking at the interesting things, and now she's not only copying people but specifically watching us for clues on how to act properly. Scary, eh?