Math is Hard! Call me DadPa
Continuing the stream of “oh crap, I’m going to be a dad” musings…
My life continues to hurtle (hurdle? hirdle? härdel?) beyond my control into the abyss of impending fatherhood. Among my many preparatory projects, both assigned and invented, has been the business of a new field of general study I have begun to refer to as “baby math.” Baby Math consists of a series of calculations developed for the purpose of prognosticating one’s doom. The better known calculations consist of things like “square root of the number of diapers required in the first ten days at home with a newborn divided by ounces of Tide Stain Stick used in first month = Adjusted Gross Domestic Product of Madagascar.” While intellectually stimulating, I have recently run across some calculations that I find disturbing. Read more
