Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Drew's future

My stepmom sent me this joke, and it's sure enough the exact reflection of Drew's future as a father:

A four-year-old boy was eating an apple in the back seat of the car, when he asked, "Daddy, why is my apple turning brown?"
"Because," his dad explained, "after you ate the skin off, the meat of the apple came into contact with the air, which caused it to oxidise, thus changing the molecular structure and turning it into a different color."
There was a long silence. Then the son asked softly, "Daddy, are you talking to me?"

2 comments:

The DP said...

i think samir's future as a father involves training his three year olds for half marathons.
i am so scared one of the kids is going to come out lazy and onerous like me, samir will not be able to handle it.

Supermom said...

OK, I know this post is over 2 years old, but DANG! I can so relate. That is SO my husband.

Once my son was in his car seat, barely able to talk when he points to the fog over the reservoir and says, "smoke".

I start saying, 'yes look at the pretty smoke' when DH starts in on something like this:

"Fog forms when water vapor in the air at the surface begins to condense into liquid water. Fog normally occurs at a relative humidity of 100%. This can be achieved by either adding moisture to the air or dropping the ambient air temperature. Fog can form at lower humidities, and fog can sometimes not form with relative humidity at 100%. A reading of 100% relative humidity does not mean that the air can not hold any more moisture, but the air will then becomes known as supersaturated. Fog formation does require all of the elements that normal cloud formation requires with the most important being condensation nuclei. When the air is saturated, additional moisture tends to condense rather than staying in the air as vapor. Condensation nuclei must be present in the form of dust, aeresols, pollutants, etc. for the water to condense upon. When there are exceptional amounts of condensation nuclei present, especially hydroscopic (water seeking such as salt, see below) then the water vapor may condense below 100% relative humidity...."