On Tuesday, I was watching a Mariner’s game and Jerry happened to come sit on my lap. He watched a bit before something caught his eye. He stared for a bit longer and then it dawned on him - “poi!” he said. (Poi is Japanese for throw.)

Jerry had realized that the pitcher was throwing the ball to the catcher. We spent the next 10 minutes watching the game - with Jerry and I both noting when “poi” happened. Then Jerry hopped up, ran over to where my baseball mitt and ball were (on the shelf) and pointed at it - “boh boh” (ball).

Conversations with Jerry are becoming more and more rich.

verbal words:

da da - dako (carry me) ba - bus oppai/pai - oppai (breast milk) bo - poi (throw) da - daddy (me!) bo bo - baru (ball) bo bo - boshi (hat) bu - book bon - zubon (pants) itai - itai (ouch) uh oh - uh oh babi - baby tsee - cheese gepu/upu - gepu (burp) ba ba - blanket pa pa - pan (bread) nen ne - neru (sleep)

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything: Forty-two.

Now what was the actual question, again?

Joseph Palmer - Hi Joe! ;)

(Found randomly from http://pk-kirsch.de/ )

Glück ist, das meiste aus dem zu machen, was man ist.

Reichtum ist, das meiste aus dem zu machen, was man hat.

(Translated by Google)

Luck is, to make most from, what one is.

Wealth is, to make most from, what one has.

Eriko, Jerry, and I went to Vancouver, BC on Saturday. We spent about 8 hours in the car in exchange for about 8 hours in Canada - most of which were spent with Naofumi, Eriko’s cousin. We went to Stanley park, the aquarium, walked around downtown, and hung out at the Oakridge Mail (unfortunately it was raining.)

I finally had an opportunity to listen to some of the longer podcasts; I found this one particularly interesting. In it William talks about his new book and fields questions regarding the problem of inevitable nuclear proliferation. I haven’t exactly done research on this subject, but William was very unbiased and rational in his approach towards analyzing the problem. I recommend it for anyone tired of one-sided media coverage of this issue.