The nines aligned for Henry Michael Berendes’ birth.
The third child of Polly and Chuck Berendes arrived at 9:09 a.m. on 9/9/09, weighing 9 pounds, 9 ounces.
“I don’t know how it happened, but it’s pretty crazy,” said Chuck, 29.
The La Crosse couple talked about the possibility of the triple-nine birthdate and chuckled when the doctor selected the date for Polly’s C-section, Chuck said.
Chuck even brought up the possibility of nailing the time when the surgery was scheduled for 9 a.m. at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center.
“I told her the last one went pretty quick, what if it’s 9:09?” he said. “She (Polly) said, ‘Whatever, Chuck.’”
Delivery room staff watched the time for awhile, but Chuck said it slipped their mind until Henry was put on the scale.
“They measure in metric and the doctor did the math in his head but to be sure he had the nurse convert it,” he said.
“When she said 9 pounds, 9 ounces, he started laughing and I started laughing,” Chuck said.
9 pound, 9 ounce baby born at 9:09am on 9/9/09
New study proves the express lane sucks
I’ve always wondered if the checkout lane at the grocery store is actually quicker than than the other lanes. My belief is that it isn’t and thankfully someone else did the work to prove it.
Dan Meyer did some research and found that it’s not the amount of items that slows things down, but the amount of people.
The manager backed me up on this one. You attract more people holding fewer total items, but as the data shows above, when you add one person to the line, you’re adding 48 extra seconds to the line length (that’s “tender time” added to “other time”) without even considering the items in her cart. Meanwhile, an extra item only costs you an extra 2.8 seconds. Therefore, you’d rather add 17 more items to the line than one extra person! I can’t believe I’m dropping exclamation points in an essay on grocery shopping but that’s how this stuff makes me feel.
He also discovered some obvious points like that writing a check is slower than using credit and credit is slower than using cash.
(photo: KirrilyRobert)
Scientists levitate mice with magnets
Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals, with a space inside warm enough at room temperature and large enough at 2.6 inches wide (6.6 cm) for tiny creatures to float comfortably in during experiments.
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