+10 to this.

Companies are loyal to the bottom line, not to you. Don't sacrifice living your life trying to prove yourself trying to be the best employee ever by doing nothing but work. Companies love for you to make extra effort all the time, but if they can make a million dollars by firing you, it doesn't matter how good of an employee you are. Work hard, do your job, but be ready to leave at a moment's notice when something better is around - you REALLY don't owe them anything.

I'm sure he would have understood that. And then he would have gone around telling us, his grandparents, and anyone else that he had to shit. How would you describe the words Fuck, or Bitch? :D

Besides, when he was a little older and more aware of appropriateness, we had a better discussion about which words are appropriate to say in public. It was a much better way to handle it.

Well, I do enjoy watching videos of other people's kids swearing. It can be pretty cute when they violate social norms they're not aware of. But wow, when it's YOUR kid, it becomes much less funny and much more socially embarrassing.

I will believe you on that. I did learn that there's only so many hours of animated trains that you can watch as an adult before your brain starts to melt. I am glad I have excised the knowledge as much as I already have! :)

Well, he does have a point. When my son was two, we did have some very deep philosophical conversations about moral relativism. I'm sure I could have just explained why he shouldn't shout out "SHIT", even though it made people laugh. He totally would have understood.

A few years ago when my son was a toddler, he really loved Thomas the Train. He loved watching Thomas the Train clips from the show, people opening new toy packages, etc. One day I heard curse words coming from the iPhone. I grabbed the phone and it was a video of kids filming their own Thomas show with their toys and they were swearing at each other like sailors. That started the "No YouTube Rule" which has been in effect for several years. :)

Fair enough. I know refined uranium is much, much more radioactive (I would assume mostly because it's nothing but Uranium, so it has a much higher concentration of radioactive particles). I'm assuming exposure to that would be of much greater significance that picking up a piece of uranium ore that has very little actual uranium in it! Of course, we're rapidly arriving at the limit of my knowledge of refined uranium, so I'll be the first to admit I don't know what I'm talking about! :D

You can get some for free if you want to take a trip. Right outside of Moab, UT is an old Uranium Mine. There's a tailings pile nearby and you can pick up a piece of it. It's mostly combined in other rocks and has very little radioactivity. It's not the refined, ultra-pure stuff, 5 minutes of exposure will kill you type; that's what they did with all the other stuff they didn't think was crap.

NOTE: While it's not VERY radioactive is still IS radioactive. Don't plan a long camping trip there, or decide carry a piece of it around in your pocket. Ummm... I guess unless you like having tumors.

I think that 1 of 2 things happened: 1) Apple uses Time Machine in their versioning of iWork or 2) Apple took the same interface from Time Machine and integrated that into their versioning system. If it's number 2, it's easy to see why someone could make that mistake. Either way, iWork kinda blows and the versioning in OSX doesn't work with MS Office. The best you could hope for with Time Machine is to restore an earlier version from a few hours before.

I like the versioning on Sharepoint. It's the best thing about Sharepoint. But, Holy Jesus Christ... Sharepoint sucks to administer. I'm not a dev, but I had to help set-up and run and on-prem site; and unless you've taken a class or gotten certification on it, it fucking sucks to setup and maintain. But man, I do like the versioning! If I only ever had to be a user of a site that someone else administers, then I would forever be OK with that!

Seriously though. You want kids to be interested in circuits? Teach them about logical circuits, then get into Minecraft's creative mode and use Redstone to have them build their own circuits. Show them videos of the crazy, elaborate calculators people build. Have them take that practice, and show them how it applies to real-life. If you can make that connection, you open up the possibility for them to engage in some self-learning when they get home. That's how you'll get them interested.

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It kind of makes you wonder. If SciFi shows always struggle the first 2 seasons, what would Season 3 of Firefly been like? Imagine if Season 1 was the WORST season of the show! :D

So, I'm definitely not a physicist, but I have a question that your comment seems to be at the root of.

As far as I understand it, we're trying to figure out what's happening on the edge of the expanding universe, but we have no idea what is outside of our universe that it is expanding into. It could be something that doesn't follow any of our laws of physics and is inexplicable, all we know is that it not this universe. If we know our Universe started in NotThisUniverse, and you mention the beginning of the universe does not need to conserve energy, then doesn't it follow that energy came from NotThisUniverse? And possibly, once here our laws of physics allowed for the creation of a stable universe? If so, could we explain the vacuum energy as saying that the expansion of our universe into NotThisUniverse is allowing the conversion/transfer/creation of energy from NotThisUniverse "stuff" to our universe stuff?

Then he grabbed his mobile device and started blogging again. :)