Amitai Schleier @schmonz@octodon.social

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Help me find a summer internship in Cleveland, NYC, or Chicago for a sophomore in Computer Science at CWRU?

It’s for the daughter of one of the best teachers I ever had. So it would be especially satisfying to contribute to her learning in some small way.

"The Agile Fluency Model offers an alternative to some false dichotomies." https://schmonz.com/2017/12/29/training-agile-fluency-game/

#AgileFluency #agile #tdd #refactoring #congruence

@MightyBigCar also, ha ha autocorrect. “Naked” meant to be “named”

@MightyBigCar that’s a very reasonable reading. I’ve tried to address that in the web page where these graphs might appear, which I’d better just link to already: https://schmonz.com/qmail/acceptutils

@MightyBigCar ha! Indeed. Left is old, right is new hotness. In context, they’ll each appear in a naked section of the page with more details.

We sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" (with harmony!) to Taavi, bib on, awaiting his first taste of mixed apple-banana. On "braaaave", as if on cue, he joined in with his loudest shriek. He got what he wanted, but not until we eventually stopped laughing.

I believe “after” is better, and these before-and-after diagrams are intended to help you agree. Are they succeeding? What might help more? https://octodon.social/media/gB9mPczQad9rQbK6-ok https://octodon.social/media/S-81mM_N1LCxe7ORy1U

Thanks to this very thoughtful Christmukkah gift from my in-laws, Taavi just heard my favorite Medtner sonata for the first time.

You can hear me playing it in recital here: https://schmonz.com/2007/12/06/medtner-sonata-reminiscenza-op-38-no-1/

Merry Christmukkah!
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This afternoon, I put Taavi down for a change. He said “dada.” I said “dada?” He laughed.

This evening, Taavi started making long sequences of ba-ga-da sounds. And crawled one body length, then turned around and crawled back.

We are in good trouble.

Nach Hamburg über Hannover!

Taavi needed help to nap. Playing Brahms Op. 10 No. 4 calmed him, but that’s it. That’s my son. I can’t fall asleep to great music either.

Six months. Sassy.
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Today’s supermoon marks the sixth lunar month of our super Taavi Lua, who is hard at work on talking and crawling.
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Taavi’s face is not a square, but he can produce a decent approximation.
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Taavi with his Nana.
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New favorite thing: put my ear to Taavi’s chest. He gets to grab my beard and hair; I get approximately this view, plus a derpy grin.
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Taavi’s first conscious experience of a Residence Inn. Perks of his previous visits: stay free, check out late, recall warm fuzzy memories.

Today: appreciation, pairing, Taavi floor time, nap, first swim lesson, family walk in town, dog walk in neighborhood, baby nap on shoulder.

Soon this apparatus will be less useful for sitting and more useful as a temporary jail with a crinkly-sounding thing. https://octodon.social/media/B3CNVs5m4unxGC9XcJ0

Alternate caption: “Zaphod Babybrooks”