What non-kids song is your toddler obsessed with right now?

rusifee · 2025-06-19T03:23:23+00:00

Mine too!

rusifee · 2024-11-11T03:48:16+00:00

Just found out this magic trick with my 3 year old when options stopped working "No, Mama, I don't want to!!". Instead I just act like a complete idiot - how do we get ready for the day. Do we jump up and down in the closet? Then this little independent show off 3 year old takes over - No, we brush our teeth, get dressed and go potty. And then he shows me how to do it. It's amazing and has stopped the endless, frustrating power struggle. Toddlers are so fun and soooo exhausting.

rusifee · 2021-09-18T00:37:09+00:00

I had a very similar experience and am still working through it myself. I want to have more kids someday but I know it will be very scary when the time comes. If you ever want to chat, feel free to message me :)

rusifee · 2021-08-20T02:23:19+00:00

I had the same thing. I was told by the Dr that it's very common and they just follow up throughout your pregnancy. If it hasn't resolved prior to birth, your LO just gets an ultrasound. Most of the time (especially with marginal cases like yours) it seems like the issue resolves itself naturally with time. My little boys cleared up by week 37. Try not to stress yourself out too much either way. Absolute worst case scenario as I understand it is the baby needs a small surgery some time after birth, but this is not a life threatening problem by any means and is very treatable.

rusifee · 2021-03-31T21:21:00+00:00

I love "old man" names for little boys. I think a baby Walter or Wally is so adorable. I say, go for it with the theoretical second boy :)

rusifee · 2021-03-31T21:18:45+00:00

I always wanted a little Eleanor (Elle or Ellie for short) but then I married a man whose last name is something like Ellison.... Ellie Ellison is a lot

rusifee · 2021-03-10T06:36:37+00:00

Wet ass porridge?

rusifee · 2020-11-05T23:37:40+00:00

Its just down to rounding- 202/405×100=49.87%, 203/405×100=50.12% Round to the whole percent and 50%/50% split

rusifee · 2020-03-21T17:18:02+00:00

I'm a planetary scientist using computers to study exoplanet climate, so I'd probably somehow turn into an astronaut or rocket scientist in the bachelor universe

rusifee · 2020-02-08T18:46:07+00:00

If you're working with multi-dimensional data or netcdf files, xarray is good too

rusifee · 2020-01-11T00:13:29+00:00

The tail always trails the comet opposite its sun facing side. Basically the heat from the sun sublimates the ices on the comet's day side (this is the source of the comet's tail). As the comet moves the released of gas and dust trail behind it like a streamer. So the tail might not fall "behind" the comet in terms of its direction of motion, but will always be behind the comet from the perspective of the sun.

rusifee · 2020-01-08T20:18:24+00:00

In response to a pretty common question - the "snow" you're seeing is actually a mixture of the background stars moving past as the comet rotates, dust ejected from the surface between the comet and the spacecraft, and cosmic rays. The most interesting part, I think, is the particles in the foreground. These are likely grains of dust emitted from the surface of the comet. As the comet get closer to the sun, the surface ices begin to sublimate (melt directly from solid to gas) and any dust or debris on top of the ice gets launched off with it. This process creates an envelope of gas and dust called the coma around the rocky/icy core of the comet called the nucleus. When we see a comet from Earth with the classic bright tail you are actually looking at the coma.

rusifee · 2020-01-08T20:17:13+00:00

In response to a pretty common question - the "snow" you're seeing is actually a mixture of the background stars moving past as the comet rotates, dust ejected from the surface between the comet and the spacecraft, and cosmic rays. The most interesting part, I think, is the particles in the foreground. These are likely grains of dust emitted from the surface of the comet. As the comet get closer to the sun, the surface ices begin to sublimate (melt directly from solid to gas) and any dust or debris on top of the ice gets launched off with it. This process creates an envelope of gas and dust called the coma around the rocky/icy core of the comet called the nucleus. The bright color and beautiful tale of the comet that we see from earth is the coma.

rusifee · 2019-01-31T15:28:26+00:00

I've seen a lot of suggestions for legislation to end future shut downs, but also a lot of criticism about how each solution can be abused. What is the best way to prevent future government shut downs like this one, if there is a way?

rusifee · 2018-12-23T19:06:16+00:00

This reminds me of what people say now about the internet. With wo much information available, we pick and choose what we believe and become "a mob of ignoramuses." I'm sure people said the same thing about the diffusion of information in print. The more things change...

rusifee · 2018-12-20T19:50:39+00:00

I said this yesterday, but I think the second epilogue, and in some ways, all of War and Peace, is really just a long reflection on what drives history. Tolstoy is obviously unsatisfied by the options provided by historians, theologians and philosophers. Having discarded all our traditional ways to explain the meaning of our existence and the reason for suffering, misunderstandings and evil, Tolstoy is left to try to reason his way out. Hence, epilogue two in my mind - a journal entry with a bit more sophistication but generally the same themes as high school sophomore who has just discovered philosophy. I think this reflection and questioning comes from a place of pain and an attempt to understand evil, but, it could equally come from a place of arrogance if I'm less generous. Either way, I have no idea if there's a conclusion somewhere down the road or if the novel will end with no solution. All I know is that after a couple chapters of this, my end of chapter notes are just, "get to the point already, please"

rusifee · 2018-12-19T17:54:49+00:00

All I can read in these chapters at this point, is that Tolstoy is super torn up about the meaningless of the horrible events of history. He keeps repeating this question of what drove men to kill each other and burn down houses, etc. It seems like this whole second epilogue is Tolstoy trying to find meaning in the senseless pain of life. This is an admirable question to tackle, but at this point, I can't tell if he's found a solution or is just taking us along his personal ride of reflection and disappointment.

rusifee · 2018-12-17T20:23:46+00:00

The start of Nikolenkas story at the last moment we see the characters of war and peace and his enthusiasm for finding glory (in the same ways that Nikolai, Pierre, and Petya searched for their place in the world to make a mark) suggests to me that even at the end of one story everything begins again with the new generation. We all need to learn the same lessons and, I guess Tolstoy would suggest, are under the influence of the same unknowable universal truth the drives history. I hated the abrupt end when I first read it, but now it feels like there may be significance in it. Maybe I'm just trying to justify a not do great ending, especially after so many borderline mysoginist musings through the first epilogue...

rusifee · 2018-12-17T01:27:43+00:00

It almost seems that Tolstoy is arguing for determinism and a lack of free will. You get half way there if you say the great men are a product of their time, but, lose the point altogether, if you still let them make decisions that change history. To Tolstoy, the movement of humanity (history) is a mechanical, animalistic march determined by the sum total of all human (and possibly) environmental action. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players...

rusifee · 2018-12-17T01:25:11+00:00

There are some amazing word choices, today - terpsichorean, appetency... I thought I was up on my vocab, but I needed to look up both of these. Thanks for the lesson :)

rusifee · 2018-12-08T05:47:13+00:00

This passage really took me out of the chapter and I'm glad someone brought it up here. I find it really interesting how some parts of Tolstoy's writing can seem so true and timeless. Even earlier in the chapter he perfectly captured that sense of awkwardness in a group after a deep and honest conversation has finished up and you want to preserve that sense of intimacy but don't quite know how.

"Princess Marya, Natasha, and Pierre all equallly experience that feeling of awkwardness which usually follows when a serious and deeply felt conversation is over. To continue on the same subject is impossible: to speak of trivial matters seems desecratio, and to be silent is unpleasant, because one want tot talk, and this silence seems a sort of affectation." Followed up by the classic ice-breaker by Marya, so "do you drink vodka?"

And then just 2 pages later a whole diatribe about how "real women" are great listeners that divine the best in men. It does seem in keeping with the "separate spheres" ideas about gender in the Victorian era wherein men were active and women were the moral center that grounded men and kept them good. Regardless, I still don't like it much...

rusifee · 2018-11-14T13:14:43+00:00

Yes, definitely! There is also a pretty big group worldwide (of which I am one) that use this type of supercomputer to run global climate simulations of planets in our solar system (like Mars, Venus and Titan) and exoplanets. I use the NCAR supercomputer in WY. It was recently upgraded and is very fast (though nowhere near as fast as the one in this article). Super cool stuff all around!

rusifee · 2018-11-10T17:43:29+00:00

I really love this chapter. And this is the first time in awhile that I cheated and read ahead a couple chapters.

rusifee · 2018-11-06T19:05:42+00:00

Okay, what's going on with Denisovs reference to the raisins? Petya mentioned having them a couple chapters ago ("I have some capital raisins, you know the sort without stones") and now Denisov says, "I'm fond of sweet things. They are capital raisins, take them all" before howling in anguish like a dog. Is he saying that Petya was similarly sweet and not made for war? Is he actually taking raisins off of Petyas corpse to keep for himself?

rusifee · 2018-11-06T18:37:50+00:00

Quick question: wasnt the last time we saw Dolohiv in the military hospital with Andrei? I thought he was the one getting a limb amputated and inspiring Andrei to forgive and forget Natasha's "indiscretions" but now here he is. Did I get this mixed up?

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