See when a word was first used in print. Turns out I’m as old as “nano-bot”, “gangsta rap”, and “air quotes”.
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Lydia taking her first shower by herself, and enjoying it immensely. “I love you, Mommy.” Dancing to music afterwards.
Holland Farm with the family. The corn pit; striding through the corn maze with Lydia and Ruth; the picnic by the car; sending Lydia and Amber on the zipline, each by herself; rolling through the big pipe with the girls giggling and trying to stay upright; the picnic at Bucee’s.
Melissa: I mocked it at first, but I’ve come to accept it.
Brian: Hey, that kind of describes our marriage!
Analysts find the best scenario for economy emerges when a Democrat is President, but Republicans control Congress.
It depends on what you mean by “the economy”. GDP? Stock market performance? Decreasing the poverty rate?
Melissa: It’s Friday night, what do you want to do?
Brian: Curl up with a sexy…book. But not Facebook. Facebook’s a hussy.
You should never assume that Google is in the right, but Oracle is always wrong.
Folding the church laundry with Lydia. She helped because she wanted to.
Singing “Do You Want to Be a Bullfrog?” as a family at the dinner table (to the tune of “Do You Want To Build a Snowman?“)
My band: Wee Wee Wonky Bomb
His [President Warren G. Harding’s] speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly as a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.
In the animated movie Hercules, I wonder why Disney used the Greek name for the ruler of the underworld, Hades, and not his Latin name, Pluto?
So next time someone tells you we shouldn’t be eating food that’s been genetically modified, you can tell them we already are.
Nikita Prokopov: The most important feature of Sublime Text
Melissa: Ooo, I know what I’ll do for your funeral! I’ll release a balloon to represent your soul rising to Heaven, and it’ll be teal because that was your favorite color–
Brian: No, don’t do that.
Melissa: But as we celebrate your life–
Brian: Celebrate me now, not at my funeral! I want you to be sad when I die; I was a cool guy!
Melissa: If I wear that, people will think I’m gay.
Brian: They won’t think that with a hunk like me walking beside you!
№ 132 Books for People that Don’t Read Books
Once again, Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono from The Sci-Fi Christian podcast stop by, this time with book recommendations.
At the Hutt house, playing with Amber and keeping Lydia company while she used the restroom.
Melissa: He’s got a sexy, smoldering look.
Brian: Yep, that’s what you want in a doctor.
№ 131 Cereals: Revisited
The first cereals episode is justifiably a classic, but this time we’re doing it right. Lots of research went into this one, but don’t worry; there are still a lot of incorrect choices.
The girls dressed in princess dresses, sweetly singing happy birthday to me while I lay in bed ❤️
№ 130 Mobile Sushi Restaurants
Do you live in Mobile, Alabama and need sushi restaurant recommendations? No? Probably skip this one then.
Brian doing a ridiculously energetic and hilarious dance to “Wiggle Through the Night”, a song on the girls’ microphone
Trying to guess the names of classical music tunes; laughing because Brian tried to sound educated so many times
Laughing with Brian while watching “Baggage” with Jomboy and Jake on YouTube
On 02/02/2020 GitHub captured a snapshot of every active public repository. Those millions of repos were then archived to hardened film designed to last for 1,000 years, and stored in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault in a decommissioned coal mine deep beneath an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway.
A Leaf For My Boo, Adam’s autobiography
Doing the sandwich song with the girls, one parent holding the feet and the other their hands
№ 129 Cheeses
Melissa finally hosted a cheese party. Brian got a new favorite cheese.
Eric Meyer: Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
Laughing with Brian while reading My Immortal
Clothing that injects junk license plate data into surveillance systems
Is that how we want to raise our children? As elephant racists?
Looks like you’re faced with Sophie’s Choice: do you shoot your peanut butter child, or your chocolate child?
Church softball game–Brian hit really well each time at bat, and later got Philip Wedge out between first and second base.
№ 128 Conspiracy Theories (Part 2)
Brian and Melissa wrap up the conspiracy theory discussion. Melissa reveals the theory she believed until this year and Brian reveals the one theory he believes.
Koserstag 2020
№ 127 Conspiracy Theories (Part 1)
Melissa and Brian discuss conspiracy theories in general, and start the list of their favorites. Part 2 will follow in a couple week, unless they get to us.
Daughter sandwich song with the girls right before bed
Beating Michael and Esther at Wingspan on our first playthrough
№ 126 Fast Food Restaurants: Revisited
Brian and Melissa update an old favorite: top ten reasons for their future congestive heart failure.
There’s only so many things you can care about in a day, and Josh McDaniels is never going to be one of them.
Creating a conspiracy theory with Brian about Japan having faster-than-light space travel!
If every animal is special, and each one has its own, unique intelligence, then why should we be any more enamored of the octopus than, say, the clownfish or the clam?
№ 125 Moral Dilemmas II: Melissa Strikes Back
Melissa turns the tables and puts Brian on the hot seat with another list of ten moral dilemmas.
№ 124 Podcasts: Revisited
Brian and Melissa redo their list of favorite podcasts.