I read a news article today that talked about a couple from Australia raffleing off their Micronesian resort. They must have sold more than 50,000 tickets for 49 aus. dollars. I think to myself “that is awesome. I’d love to buy a profitable business for $49. How cool is that!” In reality if I had seen the raffle before it ended I would likely not have bought a ticket because there was too much risk of getting nothing out of it. I wonder: am I not risky enough?
Monthly Archives: July 2016
I love cherries
I’ve been into cherries this year. Jam and jelly! here are some stats.
4 pounds of cherries, 5 1/2 ounces of cherry pits
9 pounds of cherries, 12 ounces of pits, 2 ounces of stems
26.25 lbs of cherries for $25.
Mapping Katja’s mental concepts
I know I won’t touch all the mental concepts that Katja has right now. But here are some (more noun like concepts) that I can easily remember:
- Beard
- Bird
- Bath
- Blueberry
- Ball
- Bottle
- Bye(-bye)
- Dad
- Mom
- Water
- <æ> for Andrew
She has some verb like categories or actions that I think are salient as well. Some of these things are tactile motor movement skills which require some sort of mental conceptualization, while others are directional in nature:
- up (which is not just vertical, but might include “hold me”, or switch people holding me)
- down
- open (pull)
- closed (push)
- More (food)
- Turn around to get off the couch or go down a step
- Point
- Wave bye-bye
- Soft hands (as in gentle hands — when she is pulling my beard)
- Dance
- She also crawls and assisted walks
- Feeds herself (we can assume that she can feel hunger)
- Takes things off: She doesn’t like anything on her head, can take her pants off
- She likes to reach out with her index finger and thumb and experience the feeling of hair
- Reads a book while cooing to herself
- Plays the drums
- She is music aware
- She is speech sound aware (she knows she hears a sound she is not making and that it is different than what she is making) for instance the difference between <ah> and <u> but can not yet pronounce <u>.
She has a sense of emotion that clearly includes:
- Happy laughter
- Empathy when others are crying
English Bible Narration
If I had my choice of dramatized Bibles to listen to I would chose one where Morgan Freeman was narrator, where Michael Cain was perhaps Samuel. And Samuel L. Jackson is the Egyptian Pharo. Then Danny DeVito was Paul or Peter. George Cloony as Joseph (OT). Linda Hunt as Miriam (NT).