Funny Little Girl

Damn G is funny! She has developed a very pointed sense of humor.   Well, at least for a 3-yr old.

Writers, psychologists and comedians have all theorized as to the development of comedy.   Robert Heinlein said in Stranger in a Strange Land “They laugh because it hurts… because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting.”   A long-running theme on Star Trek: The Next Generation was the android Data developing a sense of humor as a step towards humanization.   George Carlin called it something that could be physical,   mental or mystical.   Chris Rush told me years ago to use the fewest words possible and tie it all down with tits and ass.

I don’t think you should overthink it.   Its obvious that she has gotten smart enough to understand irony and juxtaposition, laughing off accidents, silliness as a contrast   to normalcy, all while happy and clever enough to play with those she loves.

It is really really fun!   Its not exactly heady material, but totally giggle-worthy.   When we were playing hide-and-seek, she hid right out in the open and pretended to be hidden by closing her eyes, but kept this up only as long as I kept going “Hmm…where is Genevieve?”   This happened after she sent Kila jumping out of the way of her feet on the downslope of the swing, and laughed just like I do when riding buds faceplant on something stupid.   At the gym she kept hiding in the locker, and repeated the moment of jumping out and trying to surprise Alana and me like a punchline.   She has started telling knock-knock jokes; she can’t complete one, but knows that its something that should make someone laugh.   I’m going to start teaching her yo momma jokes, I think she will relate to them better.   She is even cute when she is being a pain, holding a screwdriver I needed out of my reach while maintaining a shit-eating grin as Mommy and Daddy got mad at her.

It another way for her to connect with us, and put ideas together into complex patterns. And I’ll take a good laugh wherever I can find one.

Cram This Up Your Ass Chuck Schumer

Vimeo has a system outage where videos spent hrs waiting for conversion, and at the same time, as part of their default coding they fill their available space with  a promo for their enhanced service.   Seems reasonable.

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Posts from Vimeo’s support staff explain the issue and diffuse concerns of a conspiracy:

We had a network glitch earlier that caused a lot of videos to be
delayed. We've since patched it up and resumed encoding. All your
videos should be available in the next few hours!
Trust us we are not intentionally causes errors for our free members,
the technical difficulties that began last night have been affecting
both free and Plus members.
No need to reupload. We are powering up our systems to run through the
backlog of files that accumulated due to this glitch. We have your
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We have an outage, on the other hand, and get pressured from Senators and Attorney Generals to remove an integration feature that helps users.   StubHub continues to do what they want, accept pre-listings, and not offer the kind of guarantees to customers that we can.