{"id":183309,"date":"2014-12-29T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/29\/i-have-a-very-strange-son\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:15:00","slug":"i-have-a-very-strange-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/29\/i-have-a-very-strange-son\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have a Very Strange Son"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I have been watching the Dr. Who<\/i> marathon on BBC America<\/i>, and this evening, I had an epiphany.<\/p>\n

Since I was at home, I shared it with Charlie.<\/p>\n

I would have shared it with Natalie at the same time, but seeing as how she is in Hawaii, she will have to read it on Facebook.<\/p>\n

<\/a>My epiphany was that the toys in the Pixar film Toy Story<\/i> are weeping angels. (See picture the picture with the doctor, I am not the first to come up with this idea.)<\/p>\n

Whenever someone looks at Sheriff Woody or Buzz Lightyear they are inanimate, but when unobserved, they move on their own.<\/p>\n

They, and Mr. Potato Head, are weeping angels.<\/p>\n

I mentioned it to Charlie, and he suffered a bit of a meltdown, and he strongly<\/span><\/b> implied that I had ruined his childhood.<\/p>\n

About a half hour later, I talked to him again, and he gave me a high-five.<\/p>\n

He told me that after some reflection, he realized that my brief moment of insight actually improved<\/b> his memories of the whole Toy Story<\/i> series.<\/p>\n

Weird.<\/p>\n

FWIW, he’s getting into Dr. Who<\/i>, though he is still first and foremost a Brony.<\/p>\n

In particular, he likes the degree to which the show adheres to the Novikov self-consistency principle<\/a>, and so does not  create paradoxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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