Doctor? Is that you? Why are you driving a minivan?
Posted 23 hours ago
So I turned 30 today.
You know you’re getting old when you get a present for your birthday and you’re genuinely surprised.
Posted 1 day ago
I love how Babycenter keeps nagging me that I should be potty-training Mini-Marmot. They do not seem to be taking Mini-Marmot’s opinion on the matter into account.
Me: Do you want to be a big boy and learn to use the potty? Not wear diapers anymore?
Mini-Marmot: No! Nope. Nooooooooooooooo!
Later
Me: Are you a big boy or a baby?
Mini-Marmot: Baby!
Alright then.
Posted 3 days ago
Meeting another two-year-old is always such a stark reminder that Mini-Marmot is a. frickin’ enormous and b. not very verbal at all. We just met our 2-year-old neighbor, who speaks very clearly but is at least four inches shorter than our little dude, despite being a few months older.
Posted 4 days ago
A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday that Fox Searchlight Pictures had violated federal and New York minimum wage laws by not paying production interns, a case that could upend the long-held practice of the film industry and other businesses that rely heavily on unpaid internships. In the decision, Judge William H. Pauley III ruled that Fox Searchlight should have paid two interns on the movie “Black Swan,” because they were essentially regular employees. The judge noted that these internships did not foster an educational environment and that the studio received the benefits of the work. The case could have broad implications. Young people have flocked to internships, especially against the backdrop of a weak job market. Employment experts estimate that undergraduates work in more than one million internships a year, an estimated half of which are unpaid, according to Intern Bridge, a research firm.
Posted 1 week ago
Posted 1 week ago
He turned two the same weekend we moved, so he didn’t get a party. Fortunately he’s two, so all he noticed was the presents and the new house.
Posted 1 week ago
Well at least I’m sure he’s my kid.
Mini-Marmot likes TV, but ONLY Sesame Street and Doctor Who - nothing else. Even Thomas the Tank Engine didn’t hold his attention for more than a minute.
Until today, when I was flipping through channels and came across Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He’s totally into it. I bet he’ll be reading the books inside four years.
Posted 1 week ago
Posted 1 week ago
Assume for a moment that some of these measures really have helped make our persons and property safer—are they worth it? Where and when was the public debate on whether they’re worth it? Was there no such debate because we’re not capable of having or demanding one? Why not? Have we actually become so selfish and scared that we don’t even want to consider whether some things trump safety? What kind of future does that augur?
Posted 1 week ago
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection…
The fact of the matter is that the ‘real world’ is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group…We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
– Edward Sapir in “The Status of Linguistics as a Science,’ Language, Vol.5 pp. 209-210 (via leakygrammar)
Posted 2 weeks ago
The only nice thing about the “wetlands” at the bottom of our yard: random flowers.
Complaining about many things, since 1983.
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