Archive for June, 2008
…should be utterly excited about the following news. I say should because you really hate to chase someone off with good news despite themselves…
The following guests have been fully confirmed and lined up to appear together in a panel session with Q&A at Comic-Con in San Diego, Friday, July 25, 7:15 p.m.
On the panel will be: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Frank Conniff, Bill Corbett, Joel Hodgson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Bridget Nelson, Mike Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein. Wow.
The moderator will be Patton Oswalt.
To explain to the rest of you; that is the ENTIRE group behind Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Including those who ‘washed their hands’ of the show and said they’d never look back.
I’ve always been impressed how in cop shows they can tell the age of a random person. The really amazing thing is that they do this without cutting them in half and counting the rings.
Today, after getting picked up at my bus, a father walked by with an infant. I looked at H and said, “6 months?”, she agreed.
Before having one myself… I was useless at aging a child.
I’d ask, “So how old is he? 3 yrs”
“No Andrei, she’s 9 months”
“Oh.””
“Okay, so she’s like 5 right?”
“no, I’m 10”
Now… oh, now… Now I know what physical milestones occur to the month. I know when the head is likely to be up unsupported. I know when certain levels of motor control occur. Now granted, I’ve learned this not only from having a recently acquired model of my own. But because having one of these devices seems to give you every right to invade in every other parent’s life with the obnoxious question, “Ooh, How old”
I think the question is designed solely to give a parent a warm fuzzy about their own child’s developmental progress.
Yes… my new super power. Telling the age of a toddler or infant without cutting them in half and counting the rings.
and 101.5 temperature.
I really should have accepted when the boy heaved upon my lap that I was going to share in his misery.
H had it yesterday.
This is nasty.
Dizzy, nauseous.
And enough energy to not want to be anywhere in any position.
meh