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02 July 2008 08:14 am

Me: At this age, I’m already over the hill.
Mom: Really? But you’re so young.
Me: Yes. I’m in my most fertile years. I should already be having kids by now.
Alex: Twenty is about the right age.
Mom: So human fertility doesn’t look like t-distribution.
Dad: No. It’s more like chi-squared.

01 July 2008 10:25 pm

Byrnes: You just randomly flipped to only being on Yahoo.
Me: Wireless. But I think it’s the encryption really. The network was free for a while, and everything was fine. Then Dad put encryption back on.
Byrnes: Well turn the damn encryption off! Seriously. Who’s gonna steal your wifi?!
Me: The deer. In the backyard.
Byrnes: They have 802.11n?
Me: Dad: Gotta encrypt. Or someone’s gonna steal our bandwidth. Alex: Sure. If they’re sitting in a car in our driveway.
Byrnes: Seriously. They’d have to be within 100 feet of the BASE STATION.
Me: What’s within 100 ft? TREES. Those damn trees. They’re out to get us.
Byrnes: The bloody deciduous. Those bastards.
Me: And the conifers! They’re green YEAR ROUND.
Byrnes: With their piney pine pines! They PINE FOR YOUR WIFI.

30 June 2008 11:53 am

Mom: Alex wants to go to graduate school for neuropsychology but he doesn’t know where to apply yet.
Me: Once he figures out what about neuro that he likes, it’ll be easier to narrow down the choices. Cognitive, ev-bio, comparative ..
Mom: I’ve noticed that you two have very similar interests.
Me: We are your kids.
Dad: That’s right! You and Alex are related!