Henry has been anxiously waiting for me to finish his Star Wars themed room, and Sunday was the big day. It features a LEGO building table with storage, a Death Star themed bed with working lights, masks of some of his favorite characters, and wall mounted light sabers.
Category Archives: Parenting
Typical Conversations: Don’t Bite the Baby
Henry probably plotting Rina’s demise…
When Henry was around one-year-old he, as some kids around that age do, bit Rina.
Rina: “Joshik just bit me!”
Matt: “You have to bite him back so he knows it hurts and doesn’t do that anymore.”
Rina stared at me blankly for a moment.
Rina: “Really?”
I stared back at her for a moment.
Matt: “No, don’t bite the baby.”
Rina: “Oh, okay, I thought you were serious.”
Typical Conversations: Lasers
My 3-watt laser hitting an Oreo cookie. For science.
Warning: Nerd Alert – if you’re not into science and the skillful application of lasers to burn, burst, or melt objects you may want to skip this chapter.
I’m very fond of all things science, but especially lasers. I got my first one when I was about 14-years-old, and over the years, my interests in lasers only grew. For a while I even worked at a company in southern Arizona that made an array of laser scanners for military, industrial and commercial uses. In fact, when the space shuttle Challenger was destroyed due to cold O-rings, my company got a phone message from the contractor who built the solid rocket boosters, Morton Thiokol, inquiring as to whether we could build a laser flatness detector (more properly a laser interferometer), which works by the same mechanism that creates the holograms like on your credit cards. Continue reading
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