Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Aerodynamics

Lately, Gillian has been carefully studying aerodynamics and it's relationship to gravity. She conducts most of her research from her high Evenflo perch at 9am and 6pm daily. Generally, the test runs begin with how many times water-filled plastic can hit the floor, and how many times people can be trained to retrieve it (it's science and sociology, people!). Next is foodstuffs. She generally prefers to use denser vegetables in lieu of the airier and more valuable carbohydrates, for obvious reasons. Even when they are delightfully seasoned and cooked to perfection. And she holds eye contact with her observers as she first dangles the item over the edge, then drops it.

The experimental design is not limited to the Evenflo perch. It is also interesting to conduct data runs at the grocery store with General Shoulderbag Items. I bet no one could predict that a writing pen could impact linoleum no less than 2000 times in 45 minutes! (needless to say, not having the pen for said experiment was not an option (if that one time trying to pry it from her tiny vicegrip fingers is any indication).

We hope that this empirical endeavor concludes shortly. Tomorrow would be good.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You need one of those bank pens with the chain attached. Can't help you with the butternut squash though...