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I'm writing this on Sunday night, at the end of a really fun weekend. Saturday we spent the morning browsing our neighborhood tag sales, and in the afternoon we explored the natural foods store and bought Minnow a bigger car seat at Target. For the evening, we hired a babysitter, so that Fish and I…
Here's what I wrote in 2009 about weekend fun.
The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: "Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear as well as absence of bodily pain through knowledge of the…
After gazing at the cute owlet all day, I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be fun to have a pet owl, like a pet parrot?" Now deep down I figured that was a horrible idea on a LOT of levels (and turns out, yeah, its a BAD idea). But I'm sure that with the huge popularity of the Harry Potter movies, quite…
They say that time flies when you're having fun but it also works the other way round. If you make people think that time is passing more quickly, you can make tasks more fun, noises less irritating and good songs even better.
I'M NOT HAVING FUN!It's clear that our perception of the passage of…
Fun indeed. A pleasure meeting you face to face, and thanks to Orli Bahcall, Peter Binfield and Joe Palca for their own very informative presentations--not to mention Robert Anholt and the rest of our NCSU Keck Center hosts. It was at least as much fun to be on the panel as it could have been to be in the audience.
Thank you, John. It was great to finally meet you in person. It was a fun and informative day.