The set-up When Sarah was about 20 weeks along with this baby, she began to lobby for us to not find out what the gender was until the baby was actually born. After all, she figured, we could be surprised by learning if it was a boy or a girl at 20 weeks, or at… Continue reading And then there were five… (The story of Claire’s birth)
Tag: Names
Fun with Markov chains and Book of Mormon names
So a guy posted on Reddit yesterday about the Markov text generator that he wrote to generate pseudo-Greek names. If you don’t know what a Markov chain is, Wikipedia explains that “Markov processes can also be used to generate superficially ‘real-looking’ text given a sample document”. In his case, he put in all… Continue reading Fun with Markov chains and Book of Mormon names
And baby makes four
This morning Sarah woke up at 2:15 with pretty strong contractions. She got me up soon after, and we called for Becca (her sister and doula) to come help with the labor. We looked out the window and saw that it had snowed quite a bit overnight, so the roads were pretty bad. Becca and… Continue reading And baby makes four
You Gotta Love It, Baby
I got the chance to laugh at Sarah the other day while we were tossing around names for Baby Brother. (A few weeks ago, we were pretty much settled on Nathan, but we’ve since backed off it.) Our neighbors have a son named Stockton (after Utah Jazz great John Stockton), so Sarah said, “We could… Continue reading You Gotta Love It, Baby