Samuel

That boy totally takes after his daddy.

Oh Yeah. Arthur with a killer mouche.

Hey there sport fans. Today, the family went to the Oregon Logging Conference. This seems like a strange event for a family of environmentalist, earth conscious, back to the land type organic granola crunchers like us. And it is, but there is one marvelous redeeming feature of this event; lots and lots of machines which on Saturday morning they let kids climb around on (in what is probably a massively bad idea from a liability standpoint). You can see some pictures of Arthur and his friends climbing around here. But in this post, what I want to show you is exactly how dangerous a place the world really is. I went around the displays of machines looking for pictures of everyone’s favorite stick man getting mangled in various ways. It’s amazing all the bad things that can happen to you when you’re not careful around machines. Check it out;

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A few weeks ago, I was working on an audio project that involved this sample. I was working within earshot of the toddler, so he heard it repeated probably close to 100 times. Results were as one might predict, and a reminder to be more careful. Note that the sample is not safe to be played in polite company or out loud at work.

In my life, I’ve had some good friends who have been transgendered. Recently, our toddler has started asking about how Mama and Papa seem to have different parts. Mama was trying to explain how girls have yonis and boys have penises, but she got caught up as she tried to explain this in such a way as to be comprehensible to a toddler but not impose hetero-normative ideas as first principles. If anyone reading this has any ideas, they would be welcome.