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Serendipitous learning… about farts!
This afternoon I unexpectedly learned something new about Japanese language and culture. In my family we’ve been making a point of watching anime together as a family, for entertainment and for Japanese practice. This isn’t just passive consumption of media, … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged anime, 科負う, fart, folktales, Japanese study, serendipity, traditional values, trivia, 屁, 比丘尼
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Child Development: Words with character(s)
The Tomato Princess has been expanding her vocabulary day by day, and it’s interesting watching the way she’s trying out the use of various words. When her older brother was the same age, we actually used quite a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged bilingualism, learning Japanese, speaking practice, the kid, Tomato Princess, vocabulary, writing practice
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Child development – an unbeatable sense of comedic timing
This just now happened. We were eating dinner. My wife and I were slicing the bread I’d just made and eating it topped with slices of cheese. At this point I should probably note that the Tomato Princess loves cheese … Continue reading
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Tagged 16 months old, comedy, dinner, fake-out, timing, Tomato Princess
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Child Development: The “Litest” RPG
A road to gaming As part of my nefarious secret plot to induct my kids into the joy of nerdy gaming, I’ve been introducing The Kid to various activities in that vein for a while now. This actually began when … Continue reading
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Tagged invention, nerdery, RPG, social development, the kid
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Ace of crowns: Challah!
The onset of coronavirus brought a rush of baking to the country, and our household was no exception. I tried baking challah for the first time I can remember, certainly the first time on my own, in the first week … Continue reading
A fabled foray into interactive fiction
Longtime readers will remember that I’m interested in tabletop role-playing games and have even dabbled in a bit of design and setting-creation, but it was still with some surprise that back in October, I found myself visiting the local university’s … Continue reading
Child development: the self-propelled tomato
As some readers may already know from other sources, The Kid has a little sister now. Not too long after she was born I looked at her round, red face and thought, Oh, a tomato. So now one of her … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged desert rain frog, mobility, physical development, the kid, Tomato Princess
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Cognitive development: pics and puns!
It’s been a long time since I used this blog to publicly marvel at the kid’s development, but this one’s too good to let pass unremarked-on. In his preschool they’ve been working on drawing, and on writing letters and numerals; … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive development, puns, the kid, writing systems
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A Friday link: The power of (mis)translation
[Here’s the link] One of the blogs I follow is A Book of Creatures, which regularly introduces cryptids (animals that someone has said exist… that probably or definitely don’t in reality) from around the world. Many of these would make … Continue reading
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“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
(J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King) 彼方を立てれば此方が立たず (Achira wo tatereba kochira ga tatazu; “If one raises that side, this side will not rise.”) Definition: It’s difficult, almost impossible, to get all sides of something equally accepting and happy about … Continue reading →