Centerfield

this blog appears to be in the ICU on the vent with BP dropping and urine output nil.... in other words in critical condition. Let's do an EEG to see if there's still meaningful brain activity.

blog hdr:
I've been silent because I've been recovering from our kid's birth. I was writing while the birth was going on. There's a genre of birth descriptions, known as birth stories, that I just didn't enjoy and came to actively hate after the 80th or so included the text, "pure life force." So here's my version of what happened at our birth:

Our Real Birth Story

Births are so tiring.

First I had to stop the hacker from killing her. I checked the control machine. Since it was a Windows machine, of course was running a worm, set to take control of any anesthesia machines attached to my wife, administer a fatal dose of anesthetic to my wife, and suppress the resulting medical data changes from being seen.

Five days of labor later, just as the baby started to come, the terrorist came. His group must've gotten another bot into the analysis machine for my wife's block, that I didn't think to look for, so they knew when to act.

He'd sneaked a grenade and a pistol, a Kel-Tel P-32, into the
hospital. He threw the grenade, killing the doula and the doctor.
Two bullets stitched the nurse. Then another bullet came for me, but
I quickly deflected it with my silver iPhone back into his neck,
killing him all-but-instantly.

I was neatly stacking the bodies when the baby fell out of Momma's womb and splatted against the floor.

So, what are my hopes for the kid?

I'll raise him as a patent clerk, just like Hitler's Dad raised him. And make him go to all sorts of stupid patent clerk-type classes he doesn't like, just like Hitler. And command him to be a patent clerk when he's a rebellious teen. And he'll take it out on the WHOLE WORLD. Bwahahaha!

I'm expecting him to conquer the ENTIRE world, not just putz out early halfway through his first continent due to arrogance and obvious stupidity. After all, our kid will have the advantage of the computer games to play for practice conquering the world. He'll understand about "One Thing At A Time" until the mopup stage. Unlike certain wannabe predecessors. Bwahaha!

Some people have asked about physical details. Well, he was born full-grown, 8' 4", 180lbs, eyeless and with green hair.

Congrats.....now Kyle XY has a brother.

Wow, that story was really a stretch, my best to your wife and your future NBA star son.

Congrats to the Professora and yourself, Jon! And howdy to the Future Scourge of the Universe, a prediction that will no doubt see rapid fulfillment in at least your immediate environs.

As one parent to another, let me welcome you both to an entirely new perspective on life, one at least partially engendered by chronic fatigue and sleep deprivation. ;-D

I'll hopefully be posting more over the summer, Chris.

How 'bout you? Nothing to say?

If we can't get more group participation, I may look for another home. Seems to me most blogs need a solid group of 3-5 folks with a desire to post several times per week to keep things interesting. Unless you're a prolifik, like instapundit.

It probably wouldn't hurt for us to recruit 1-2 newbies. Any thoughts?

There may be something to be said for the thesis that everybody (including the usual commenters) got a life in the same week . . . but it's temporary. Statistically unlikely, perhaps, but possible. Why not give it another couple of weeks before doing anything radical.

I'm wondering if anyone has come across a third kind of objection to gays in the military.

Of the ones I have heard, the vast majority seem to be the same (bad for morale, the troops won't like it, etc.) as those which could have been made, with equal or greater accuracy, about President Truman's ordering racial integration of military units half a century ago.

The only other kind I have heard reduce to this: someone might be subjected to unwanted homosexual advances. And while the military already has regulations in place to deal with sexual harassment, if those were used with regard to homosexual advances, it would become necessary to actually enforce them regarding cases of unwanted heterosexual advances. (Oh, the horror!)

Has anyone come across an objection that doesn't fall within those two categories? Just curious.

My first Father's Day has been going pretty well - some fun electronic battles fought, some playing with the kid and a cat, and a nice rotisserie place that we hadn't gotten around to trying (El Regio).

Brian;
I've been slow in posting due to the following reasons (excuses): 1) just moved into new house and going through unpacking, reshuffling, remodeling 2) on the Board of Elders of my church and involved in new pastor search etc. 3) dealing with various family issues (i.e. son going off to Europe, mother losing ability to care for herself) 4) began training for a Marathon (my first).

So lately I've lurked.