Blogdaughter Sally of Whimsy Capricious says she has trouble keeping enough fluids by her bedside to keep her from getting thirsty at night:

we own hundreds of plastic kid's cups. Glittery Barbie, Little Mermaid, Disney Princess monstrosities...tons of them. The trouble with these cups is that they don't hold much liquid.

May I recommend one of these?

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8 inches high, 5 inches diameter, holds about 64 oz of liquid, and has a spill-resistant closable top.

Wait... Sally's English... I need to convert to metric... where's that calculator?...

[spends several minutes longer than necessary playing with calculator]

Oh! The NUMBERS...

About 20 cm high, about 13 diameter, and holds just under 2 liters.

[Hat tips to blogdaughter Boudicca of Boudicca's Voice and Ted of Rocket Jones for the calculator link]

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1 Eric and Matt need to see this sippy cup... Seriously.

Posted by: Bou at July 29, 2005 09:43 PM (5JHEt)

2 Whimpy! LittleJoe found one that holds over 100 oz, I had to buy one for myself.

Posted by: Contagion at July 29, 2005 10:12 PM (M8Swz)

3 That is why I love my Grandpappy, always a step ahead, and always thinking of the other guy.

Posted by: ArmyWifeToddlerMom at July 29, 2005 10:15 PM (XCgIJ)

4 LOL! God, people of my generation suck at measurement. We were taught metric at school, yet the real world still used imperial till long after we had grown up. Now I'm just totally confused by either! And, yes, I can't park ;-) Thanks, Harvey.

Posted by: Sally at July 30, 2005 05:52 AM (Q5UbG)

5 These were great in college for having alcohol in the dorms with out the dorm nazi noticing!

Posted by: Sissy at July 30, 2005 08:25 AM (z5XSP)

6 Contagion - is this going to devolve into one of those "mine's bigger" arguments? :-D

Posted by: Harvey at July 30, 2005 02:44 PM (ubhj8)

7 Don't want that to happen to Herbey... he always ends up a little short on one end, if you know what I mean....

Posted by: Madfish Willie at July 30, 2005 03:36 PM (ikJsr)

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7 is easy. 8 is hard.

Just don't put anything in the corner squares and you'll figure it out a lot faster.

And remember, there's a reason the knight is called a "queen-zapper".

[Hat tip: Jed of Boots & Sabers]

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1 Damn you! I had stuff to do today!

Posted by: Ogre at July 13, 2005 09:25 AM (/k+l4)

2 that isn't too hard at all. I got it pretty quickly. but who's bragging

Posted by: Mustang 23 at July 13, 2005 09:50 AM (WsyQC)

3 That's easy! Just place a super hot guy next to each one and they will forget about each other. What? Oh, not *that* kind of Queen. Sorry

Posted by: Machelle at July 13, 2005 10:37 AM (ZAyoW)

4 yeah - turns out i used to be a chess geek back in the day and happened to remember the keys to this one. go figure.

Posted by: Patriot Xeno at July 13, 2005 02:08 PM (SXM2F)

5 There are 92 non-isotropic solutions to the 8 queens problem. It's a classic recursion exercise for young students of computer science. The "knight's tour" -- from an arbitrary starting point, make a knight visit every square on the chessboard once, no repeated visits -- is another such.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at July 15, 2005 03:11 PM (MzH7h)

6 PHWEEEET! I've got a "too many big words" penalty on Francis. The ball will be moved back 15 yards from the spot of the foul. Still second down. PLAY BLOG!

Posted by: Harvey at July 15, 2005 03:18 PM (ubhj8)

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