Cousin Anne came to visit this weekend. We had a great time. I had considered trying to get her to go visit the Exploratorium, a science-oriented museum in San Francisco, but then I decided that was silly. So then I asked her what she wanted to do and she said “I heard the Exploratorium is good.” So right away, you’ve got yourself a good cousin.
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Bad Cousins are ones that:
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It’s worth nothing that Anne is very low key, but the right exhibit at the Exploratorium can make her appear high strung:
Ha! High strung! Now that’s comedy you can take to the bank.
I haven’t been the Exploratorium in about twenty years or so. I was surprised at some of their new exhibits. For example, there was an exhibit featuring Vanna White that attempts to demonstrate how our perceptions are easily fooled. First, the exhibit shows two photos of Vanna White upside down:
Seems okay, right? But here are the same pictures right-side up:
Wow! That’s a powerful scientific lesson! I think we can all learn something from this demonstration--namely, it can be dangerous to look too closely at Vanna White. Although, in all honesty, I knew that already.
I had never met Cousin Anne before, and it’s interesting the things you find out about people that no one bothered to tell you about. For example, it turned out that she’s a big fan of punk rock. I took her to Fisherman’s Wharf, when I should have brought her to see KMFDM at the Mezzanine. So not punk rock.
On the other hand, it’s no big. Because the good thing about first meetings? In most cases, it’s likely that there’s many more to come.
Posted by Greg at 06:03 AM on 10/30/06