One of the blogs I follow was just talking about behavioral regressions and growth spurts/mastering new skills. And how there is rarely a connection between the regression and the new skill. I don't know if growing counts as a skill, exactly, but it seems like it would fit the general pattern.

Has my work computer slowed down a lot in the last month or so? Or does it just seem to be slower because I know we're getting new workstations soon?

eta: No, it's my work computer being slow. I had to go to the bathroom to give it time to think about things....

Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal

In remarkable research, the sociologist Rebecca Warner and the economist Ebonya Washington have shown that the gender of a person's children seems to influence the attitudes and actions of the parent.

Warner (1991) and Warner and Steel (1999) study American and Canadian mothers and fathers. The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, the authors argue, the anticipated and actual struggles that offspring face, and the public policies that tackle those, matter to those parents. . . The authors demonstrate that people who parent only daughters are more likely to hold feminist views (for example, to favor affirmative action).

Possibly there might be someone here who would find this interesting:

BETTER WETTER? Who's Hotter When Soaking Wet? (PHOTOS, POLL)

The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers.

I have been saying this for years!

Oh Jesse. Does your work do like neighborhood centers? Specifically tutoring?

Report: California Proposition 8 Decision Coming Down on Thursday

Last night was Deadliest Warrior between Maori warrior and Shaolin monk. I'm betting the monk won, although the warrior footage they showed was quite nasty.

The monk did win, almost entirely due to the weaponry. Mostly the twin hooks (which look AWESOME). Personally, I think the computer model on the show fails to take in to account the various warriors' mentalities, but I understand that that's a harder variable. Next week looks interesting: William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu. I'm betting the forged steel weaponry will win out again, since neither are armored.

The monk got served in the dance-off portion, though.

The monk did win, almost entirely due to the weaponry. Mostly the twin hooks

That's their only winning weapon! I've never seen that before. Normally it's 2 and 2.

William Wallace looks to have chainmail. Doesn't seem a fair fight.

And the last is Taliban vs. IRA. They're really going to have someone represent the Taliban and trash talk? Not that I think it's a good thing, but I have little doubt about finding an IRA proponent on US TV.

All this having been said, it's a dumb show, but I'm still going to watch the Aftermath of the Spetsnaz/Green Beret episode.