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Thursday, March 12, 2009
The human brain is pretty cool
My lovely bride and I were blessed with our first child about six months ago. The journey of a new father has been extraordinary so far and it has been fascinating to watch our little guy grow and change every week.
Back in drama school we had a great Alexander/Feldenkrais instructor who spent a number of weeks with us learning to crawl. I am sure that sounds strange for a bunch of grad students to be stretched out on the floor learning to roll-over, sit up and crawl 20+ years after the fact, but it was a remarkable project.
Now, 16 odd years later, I am watching my little boy go thru the same wants/needs and flexing/stretching of the same muscles to look around or accidentally roll-over as he tries to reach something. After that semester of work, I am completely enraptured by every move he makes, and I can see his little brain working out those issues that we studied so long ago.
I was reading something the other day that talked about the innate reflexes in babies. Apparently, if you hold a baby up as if it is standing on its own two feet, immediately after birth, the baby will walk. Obviously, he cannot support his own weight, but the reflex is there in the brain to put one foot in front of the other and walk. If you do the same test again, 4 months later, the baby no longer shows that same reflex, he will just stand still, rather than start the walking reflex. What shocked me about this little experiment was that if you stand that same 4 month old baby in a bathtub with water up to his waist, the walking reflex returns!
Back in drama school we had a great Alexander/Feldenkrais instructor who spent a number of weeks with us learning to crawl. I am sure that sounds strange for a bunch of grad students to be stretched out on the floor learning to roll-over, sit up and crawl 20+ years after the fact, but it was a remarkable project.
Now, 16 odd years later, I am watching my little boy go thru the same wants/needs and flexing/stretching of the same muscles to look around or accidentally roll-over as he tries to reach something. After that semester of work, I am completely enraptured by every move he makes, and I can see his little brain working out those issues that we studied so long ago.
I was reading something the other day that talked about the innate reflexes in babies. Apparently, if you hold a baby up as if it is standing on its own two feet, immediately after birth, the baby will walk. Obviously, he cannot support his own weight, but the reflex is there in the brain to put one foot in front of the other and walk. If you do the same test again, 4 months later, the baby no longer shows that same reflex, he will just stand still, rather than start the walking reflex. What shocked me about this little experiment was that if you stand that same 4 month old baby in a bathtub with water up to his waist, the walking reflex returns!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
My latest addition to the dictionary of bizarre corporate-speak
I was on a call the other day with some very smart people. There was a team from a large bank and another team from IBM. During the call we were discussing the normal delays that happen during a large software roll out, and someone said:
"The tech guys have been solutioning this issue for the past week, and hope to have it resolved soon."
Solutioning? Really?!?!
"The tech guys have been solutioning this issue for the past week, and hope to have it resolved soon."
Solutioning? Really?!?!
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