Decibels no zero sum deal

Anyone who stresses out about the 2nd law of thermodynamics and the finiteness of resources has never considered the problem of the noise-production capacities of small children. This becomes apparent to me whenever I take a day off from work, and particularly when the weather is crappy and we're stuck inside. Natalie is particularly prodigious in this capacity, although Graham has, since birth, been blessed enormous excess lung capacity. It would be great to securitize this surplus capacity and set up an exchange, even if only OTC.

This would seem to account for some of Mary's ersatz axe-murderer tendencies at the end of the day. Not that we own an axe.

Thankfully, the relaxing holidays are upon us. We'll just throw together a little something to eat and kick back and enjoy ourselves. Yeah right.

That reminds me of a fine tale of the duelling linguists. One of them was holding forth, saying how remarkable it was that while double negatives were everywhere construed as having an affirmative meaning, the opposite was not true: double positives were nowhere understood to be negative. To which the other responded: "Yeah right."