Sozlet stories - Page 59

@sozobe,

I did think I noticed a certain resemblance between the two of you.

I like her anti-Hanna-Montana-girly-girl attitude! I missed that post the first time around, and I'm sorry I did.

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Part of an email I sent a friend yesterday (typed on my Blackberry):

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I'm typing this at the park that serves as [sozlet]'s school playground. The sun is warm on my back, the breeze is cool -- fall definitely approaches.

We are here because, at home, [sozlet] thought it would be cool if a blue poodle and a pink poodle had purple puppies. This led to a long discussion on genetics, which led to her wanting to come swing on her "thinking swing" and figure it all out. (Her focus, for now, is just how to make a poodle genetically blue -- as opposed to dyeing it. )

She still looks puzzled.

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@sozobe,

That's going to be some deep thinking. Did you talk to her about Mendel, chromosomes, dominant and recessive genes, and the like?

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@sozobe,

Is she a fan of Pooh? He has a thinking place....

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@Thomas,

Thomas:

Eyep. It was one of those onion conversations -- kept going deeper.

DrewDad:

Eyep. She loved Pooh in his Disney incarnation when she was tiny (2 or so), then disdained him when she got older, then just this summer read the original, un-Disnefied Milne and loved that.

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

Thomas:

Eyep. It was one of those onion conversations -- kept going deeper.

DrewDad:

Eyep. She loved Pooh in his Disney incarnation when she was tiny (2 or so), then disdained him when she got older, then just this summer read the original, un-Disnefied Milne and loved that.

Love it!!!

Especially happy she has discovered the REAL Pooh.....HATE the Disneyfied shit.

The thinking place thing is so real, isn't it.

I used to have a solving practical problems place...and it was the back verandah, for some reason.

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@sozobe,

Then she knows, of course, that a blue poodle and a pink poodle will, on average, have a blue puppy and a pink puppy for every purple puppy they beget.

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@Thomas,

We talked about that in passing but really got stuck on the fundamental question of how to make one of the parent poodles genetically blue in the first place.

I suspect that this part of her brain is engaged because her class gerbils -- one tan, one black -- just had babies (two tan, two black, and one half-black and half-tan).

She hasn't come up with the blue-poodle answer yet, despite much pondering. She really thought she would -- I kept saying "that wouldn't work" in response to her suggestions, she'd ask why, I'd tell her, she'd nod and ponder, she'd come up with another suggestion...

Dlowan, yes, I re-read the Milne books after she did, they're fabulous.

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@sozobe,

Heh...

I was just talking to her about this and asked her if she'd figured it out yet. No. Then one minute later:

"I figured out how to make a blue poodle!"

How?

"Make it sad!"

<rimshot>

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@Thomas,

I don't think they are likely to have a purple puppy at all.

I think you keep having to mate the ones that are most purply looking together, and gradually head towards purple.

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Talking about sozlet's love of dinos on another thread reminded me of this:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/sozobe/rocks.jpg

She made it last night. I asked her what she was doing, "writing a report." For school? "No, I just want to write a report." It was all off the top of her head and it may all be bullshit, I'm not sure.

The writing is a bit hard to make out and some was cropped (not sure why, can't seem to fix it), so a transcription with spelling mistakes intact:

(PET) ROCK STATUS (ROCKS, COOL)

Rocks, Intiroduction

Rocks are hard clumps of minerel. They have been used as tools (for crushing) for centurys. Rocks are some of the most ancient things on The Earth. Rocks are very Impervious.

A History Of Rocks

In prehistoric times the dinosaurs swallowed pebbles (which to us are HUGE) to help digest food.

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

I asked her what she was doing, "writing a report." For school? "No, I just want to write a report."

This girl sure has nerd cred.

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