Friday, October 15, 2010

FOR THOSE TIMES WHEN WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS INVENTIVE PARENTS:  This is humbling.

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  1. isaac_spaceman9:22 PM

    Wow, I suck as a dad. 

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  2. Adam C.9:47 PM

    Yeah...the other night, I helped my 6-y.o. make a paper airplane that flew across the whole dining room, so....

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  3. It's times like these that I realize that not having kids = not having to compare my parenting to anyone else.

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  4. Damn...yeah, gotta do something special this weekend.  Maybe we'll build the fusion reactor in the basement I've been considering.  Wow.

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  5. I'm not a parent and think that's amazing. What a good, lucky family. I want to do that.

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  7. I would say that family has some disposable income.

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  8. The Pathetic Earthling11:03 AM

    I bet that's less than $1000, all in.  And that's if they had lost it.  Not a small chunk of change, but not so different than a trip to Disneyland or a cruise or some such.

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  9. The Pathetic Earthling2:02 PM

    My own Dad was an engineer at the Berkeley Radiation Lab in the 1960s and used to launch high altitude balloons to do high energy physics (HAPPE - the High Altitude Particle Physics Experiment, in particular) and they'd do much the same thing.  Launch out of Chico, CA, float the experiment for a few hours, then recover it by parachute over Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Utah or Nevada.  Of course, I'm guessing that the experiment package on that thing was $1M in hardware and had the computer power of today's keyfob flashlight.

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  10. Charles Carmicheal5:23 PM

    Total awesomeness!

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  11. Kcosmo's neighbor10:30 PM

    But were they eating freshly baked chocolate chip cookies during this whole experiment??? I think not! Take that smart science dude dad.

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  12. Stacie from St. Louis9:41 AM

    Yeah, well I made cupcakes with green icing and orange sprinkles for my daughter's band bake sale!  Take that, nerdy space dad.

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  13. Adlai9:49 PM

    Every time I hear "weather balloon," I think of this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHSb5WwADU

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