Can O' Worms: Abortion

( You may or may not want to think about it... )

I have no desire to turn my blog into the kind of battleground this subject always creates, so I'm doing something I very rarely do: I'm turning off comments.

Sunday: Housework, Officework, Foreplay, Sex

Omaha and I spent the early part of Sunday housecleaning. After a breakfast of crepes-- pretty good considering I'd never made them before-- we vacuumed the floors, straightenend up the children's spaces, even got Kouryou-chan to clean up her own books, and cleaned off all the kitchen counters and the stove.

Then it was off to the office. Yes, I had to work on a Sunday. Suck. Well, at least they bought us pizza (Zeke's!) and I managed to get three of the four bugs waiting for me off my plate. I'm particularly nervous about the set of changes we've made-- they're performance improvements of the first order (parallelizing formerly serial queries of a large cluster, and exploiting knowledge developed in the first query to avoid follow-on queries and timeouts of inaccessible devices) that fix formerly quite naive implementations, but they're big changes this close to release. I hope any problems shake out quickly.

( Adult stuff. )

"I Can't See!"

So, I've got this bright four-year-old who, from the confines of her car seat, can't quite view the world. This leads me to an idea: a periscope. Not just any periscope, mind you, but a world-class "see the world" kind of periscope. A dome that magnetically affixes itself to the roof of your car; a wi-fi enabled transmitter, and a headset, or just a pair of binoculars, that let any kidlet view the world from the privacy of their carseat. And no drilling holes in the roof.

Of course, the technology is prohibitively expensive at this point, and when it finally does come down in price we'll be driving plastic cars to which the mount won't affix and gas will be so expensive we won't be able to afford to drive anywhere anyway, but it's an idea...