Your Lyin' Eyes

I've been thrilled with the 'Life' series on Discovery channel. I don't think I've watched any twenty minutes of it and not seen something I wouldn't have believed if it had been just told to me or if I'd read about it but not seen it for myself.

My brother passed along the clip below, which is not from 'Life' but from the TED series of short lectures, also well worth perusing. If you can watch this clip and not be gobsmacked with amazement, you shouldn't be wasting your time here.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/206

Random Observations

So, was there any hint that this tenant might not be viable?

Maybe they're just not that into ping pong.

Bigger and Better

When we were kids our parents kept track of our growth on this Hickory Dickory Dock clock chart, which has somehow survived lo these many eons, intact. There's a notation of our lengths and weights at birth, and at birthdays thereafter. The girl and I continued with the chart with our daughters, though since it topped out at five feet, they weren't on it long.

For the last year or so I've been charting the incredible speed at which my grandkids are zooming up the chart. Today, at about 10 1/2 years old, my grandson is 3 1/2 inches taller and 25 pounds heavier than I was at 11.