Houston, We Have a Ca-Ca

The fun and unusual baby news keeps rolling in from across the country.

Meet Natalie Meilinger, mother of three-month-old Jack and unwitting astronomer. Seems that Jack's video baby monitor has been picking up more than just his breathing and crying, it's been picking up satellite video of the space shuttle Atlantis.

In between the feedings and the changings, the Meilinger's have enjoyed video footage of the space shuttle docked at the ISS and astronauts heading out for a jaunty space walk. The pirated baby monitor video is not breaching any security system or encryption, it is a simulcast of public video shown in the Web. NASA officials, rocket scientists all, had no explanation for this phenomenon.

We picked out a baby monitor, but audio-only, no video. I'm starting to re-think that. Especially if someone can show me how to jigger the monitor to pick up out-of-market baseball games.

The Best Show on Television

Between work and moving preparations, there hasn't been much time to write lately. I do want to state, definitely and for the record, that the greatest show on television, ever, is "America's Funniest Home Videos." Apologies to the Lears, Wheadons, Abrams, and Burrows of the world, but AFV (as us insiders call it), is the finest show, ever. I am not kidding.

Here is one of my favorite baby-related clips from AFV. It is awesome in so many ways, I feel compelled to count them.

1. It's babies laughing! In unison!
2. All the babies are bald
3. The "this isn't as funny as everyone else thinks it is" look on the poor mother's face
4. The baby in the lower left (or, as I call him, Baby 7pm) simultaneously laughing and thumbsucking
5. This clip won $10,000, which, collectively, should get this family about four weeks worth of diapers

Disgusting, Yet Hysterical

Warning, do not watch this video if you are eating, have a sensitive stomach, or can't bear to see what little babies are capable of sptting up.



**This appears to be taken from the best televlsion show, ever, "America's Funniest Home Videos." Seriously, Joss Weadon, J.J. Abrams, Aaron Sorkin, you are all hacks at entertaining compared to the general populace.