yet another programmer. 34m / married / 2 kids (8.2/6.2)
Colorado
Joined November 2008
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when did water bottles for children become a thing because it wasn't when I was a kid
the true cause of the fertility crisis is the sisyphean struggle to simultaneously locate and keep fresh water bottles for all your children
it's a problem unique to the third millenium
🯁🯂🯃 HEY, LOOK
that hand isn't an emoji. it's 3 separate Unicode characters from the "symbols for legacy computing" block
notes towards improving voxel grid visibility computation:
cod.ifies.com/voxel-visibili…
children are connoisseurs of every scale of chaos
germs, glitter, pebbles, blocks, toys, stuffies, furniture: they cover it all
not to mention their more metaphysical assaults on order
(son realizes that parents that go to prison can't see their kids)
5yo: "maybe when they're a grown up they can break the law and maybe go to the same prison and see their dad"
5yo upset that he won rock-paper-scissors for the mango popsicle but sister is still happy with her coconut popsicle
water is the source of all life
houses protect and separate your family from the rest of the life in the world
thus the true enemy of houses is water providing succor for foreign life
time to call the plumber again
5yo: "will humans evolve to eat dirt?"
"no, there's not enough energy in dirt. just some minerals that some people get by eating dirt"
"what does dirt taste like?"
"dirt"
it's well known that it took hundreds of millions of years for microbes to evolve the ability to decompose wood
but the mechanism is funny: they just spit out lots of hydrogen peroxide and hope it oxidizes the bonds in the lignin more than it damages their cell walls
4yo during morning cuddles with Mama
"Aren't you glad we're not butterflies?"
"I guess? Why?"
"Because butterflies die after laying their eggs, just like sockeye salmons. So then you couldn't snuggle your babies."
it's comforting in the hospital to lean into the objectification
the professionals flitting around your bed aren't primarily judging you as a person by your presentation and reactions, they're viewing you as a nesting doll of tubes and sacs of varying compositions they're fixing
