Paolo's Mom Answers Questions About the Universe

This looks interesting.

I hate you CBC, for showing plugs about David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things, with the question ‘How was the ocean born?’

Now that my son has seen your trailer, I am stuck with answering this question. Paolo and I hardly finished how the Earth was born, now you complicate it more with how the ocean was born.

Anyhow, long story short, I gained a little but of knowledge today knowing the the ocean was born shortly after the earth was born. The theory is, is that the water came form underneath the earth and rose up as steam because of the earth’s hot surface. As the Earth cooled down, clouds started to form and it rained for many days and nights, forming the first bodies of water. And there you have it - the Ocean.

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via @siczar The Epipleptic Bicycle by Edward Gorey..

I always loved Edward Gorey’s art on Johnny Dixon novels when I was a kid..

Paolo last year, with his anti-mommy campaign. He kept asking me how to spell the words..if I knew it was for this poster, I wouldn’t have helped him.

I just submitted one of Paolo’s drawings on Threadless. Please vote for him - he’s real proud of his robot ;)

Paolo and me, our morning walk to school banter

Paolo and me, driving to his therapist’s house. And yes, he was serious about transforming the car into a plane :)

I (heart) the eighties.

via The Indie Music Database

Paolo has a new favorite song. I didn’t brainwash him or anything to like it. He listened once and liked it. I let him know there were two versions, and checked to see if he noticed the difference. One has drums and the other has pianos, he said - and both have violins. I didn’t even know he was interested enough to know the differences between musical instruments - it’s a nice surprise :) I guess Grade 2 music class covers that.

I asked which one he prefers the most - both, he said. Good answer. It’s a pretty solid song either way.

The song is Ra Ra Riot’s Too Too Too Fast. The album version on this post and the Say Hi Remix version here (it’s #3 in the list). I would’ve posted both on Tumblr, but I can only do one audio file a day :p

I get this question at least three times a week. I went for the straight answer that I could logically think of which was zero. But then backtracked, since I wasn’t sure. My uncertainty now, has resulted in the recurrence of this question, week after week.

I got a reply from one my friends from twitter (@gotcaffeine) who said that it’s sometimes zero, but mostly not.

Reliable old Google let me know that you can’t determine it since infinity isn’t really a number. If you define infinity, you probably can know the answer: like an infinite number of even numbers minus all the numbers equals…something. So yeah, it might be zero - it might not be zero - but generally speaking, infinity isn’t a number so you can’t use operands like minus and plus for it.

Now, I just need to find a way to explain this to my little 7 year old without him killing me with his follow up questions….