Chin Up … AND … Hang in There Baby!! (UPDATE)

As a continuation to my February 21, 2026 post, A Bauby, a Baby, a Court and, and because I consider Bauby’s case and others in the same or similar  predicament, my mind turned to renown Stephen Hawking, who in the late 1980’s began using an early eye-gaze system on his wheelchair after ALS progressed to the point of preventing him from using his fingers, when in his finals days he had lost the ability to speak, eat, and move independently, he remained mentally active and communicated using a cheek muscle twitch.  

It also occurred to me that the surname Hawking, like Bauby, is an addition to the newly applied and prolific over the last month “First and Last 2 Letters in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster, … and so Hawking then makes “hang”.  His first, middle and surname are also additions to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster and so providing us with:  step hen; will ill I am; hawk haw king kin in. As to the cryptic inner twin meaning behind “hang”, the definitions and etymology provided are lengthy, butt then I wondered if perhaps the inner twin world want us to connect “hang” and “baby”.  So I googled: 

common phrase that includes the words baby and hang

And then AI spit out:  

The most common, iconic phrase that includes

"Hang in there, baby". 

So I clicked on the wikipedia link provided that brought me to the “Hang in there baby” wikipedia page, where the above image came from.  Note from the wiki page: 

In 1963, he photographed another of his Siamese kittens, Sassy,  in various acrobatic poses, including the "chin up" on the bamboo pole that would later be used for the "Hang in There, Baby" poster.

The kittens name, Sassy, is an addition to the “Ass in Name” pattern cluster, so a twin heads up… and then there’s the “chin-up”…, that jives with a recent post, Presidential Butt Chin Masseter, note the following excerpts from the post: 

• Lauren Chapin  (May 23, 1945 – February 24, 2026)actress (Father Knows Best)        (*chin)

As for Chapin, her surname is an addition to the recent “First and Last 2 Letters in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster, and so making “chin”… , so…as in “chin up”… “takin’ it on the chin”…, “dimpled/cleft/butt chin”… what chin?! 

So we have a “Chin Theme” pattern cluster now in the works, … and a “Chin Up, Hang in there baby” pattern cluster.  

 Now turning back to Hawking, note from his  wiki page: 

• Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018)                                        (*hang)

My stepson, Gillman Payette was born on his birthday, and so an addition to the “Targeting Family Birthdays” pattern cluster.  

So my next related question to AI, about the first person to note eye movement communication, produced the following answer: 

Literary Foreshadowing (1845): Alexandre Dumas described a paralyzed character using only eye-blinks to communicate in The Count of Monte Cristo

So Dumas and the Cout of Monte Cristo are both leads, note the following 

The Count of Monte Cristo: … like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet.

Note from Auguste Maquet’s wiki page:  

•  Auguste Maquet (13 September 1813 – 8 January 1888) 

So there’s January 8th again,… my stepson was born on the anniversary of his death, so a second addition to the above cluster … and more specifically a “Targeting Family Birthdays/Gillman Payette (x2)” pattern cluster.   So continuing on, and because The Count of Monte Cristo was made into film, I googled another question concerning the paralyzed character in the novel: Noirtier de Villefort (Gérard de Villefort's paralyzed father), to which AI responded with: 

• Based on notable film and television adaptations of 
  The Count of Monte Cristo, the most recognizable actor to play the role of Noirtier de Villefort is Anthony Dawson in the 1975 television movie.

Note from Dawson’s wiki page: 

Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 –  8 January 1992)

We have yet a third January 8th, expanding the cluster: “Targeting Family Birthdays/Gillman Payette (x3)” pattern cluster, and a “January 8(x4)” pattern cluster.

On perusing the list of actors in the 1975 Monte Cristo film, I found two surnames that are additions to the  “First and Last 2 Letters in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster : 

• Richard Chamberlain (March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025)                                        (*chin)
• Harry Baird (12 May 1931 – 13 February 2005)                                                         (*bard)

Another addition to the “Chin Theme” pattern cluster. Chamberlains birthday and date of death also generates a “March 29, __, 31/ Date Sequence” pattern cluster … and/or a “March __, 29, 31/Uneven Day/Date Sequence” pattern cluster.  

And: 

Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 – 5 Dec 1870)                            (*paie/pay)

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• Verb (je paie): I pay, I am paying.

Etymology: 

• pay (v.) c. 1200, paien, "to appease, pacify, satisfy, be to the liking of," from Old French paier "to pay, pay up" (12c., Modern French payer), from Latin pacare "to please, pacify, satisfy" (in Medieval Latin especially "satisfy a creditor"), literally "make peaceful," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace).
• hang(n.)
• late 15c., "a sling," from hang (v.). Meaning "a curtain" is from c. 1500; that of "the way in which a thing (especially cloth) hangs" is from 1797. To get the hang of (something) "become capable" is from 1834,
• hang(v.)
• a fusion of Old English hon "suspend" (transitive, class VII strong verb; past tense heng, past participle hangen), and Old English hangian "be suspended" (intransitive, weak, past tense hangode); also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja "suspend," and hanga "be suspended." All from Proto-Germanic *hanhan(transitive), *hanganan (intransitive) "to hang" (source also of Old Frisian hangia, Dutch hangen, German hängen), from PIE *konk- "to hang" (source also of Gothic hahan, Hittite gang- "to hang," Sanskrit sankate "wavers," Latin cunctari "to 
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UPDATE : further research March 2: 

• Auguste Maquet (13 September 1813 – 8 January 1888) 
• Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821)
• Henri-Gatien Bertrand (22 March 1773 – 31 January 1844)                           (*bend)
• Pierre-Gustave-Eugène Staal (2 Sept1817 – 19 Oct 1882)                               (*pire)
• James O'Neill (November 15, 1847 – August 10, 1920)
• Ali Pasha (1740 – 24 January 1822),
• Abbé Faria (31 May 1756 – 20 September 1819)
• Napoleon III ( 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873)
• François "Pierre" Picaud (2 May 1780–1815)                                                    (*pire)
• Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866)            (*cher)
• Tony Johannot (9 November 1803 – 4 August 1852
• Léon Mathot (5 March 1886 - 6 March 1968 )                                             (*leon/lion)
• Henri Fescourt (23 November 1880 – 9 August 1966) 
• Henry Levin (5 June 1909 – 1 May 1980)
• Arturo García Rodríguez (8 May 1908 – 3 November 1973)
• León Dulfán (16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996)                                              (*leon/lion)
• David  Greene (David Lederman; 22 February 1921 – 7 April 2003)             (*lean)
• Richard Chamberlain (March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025)                                 (*chin)
• Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) 
• Viktor Vasilyevich Avilov (August 8, 1953 – August 21, 2004)
• Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) 
• Kevin Hal Reynolds (born January 17, 1952)                                                        (*reds)
• Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002)
• Pierre Niney (born 13 March 1989)                                                                             (*pire)
• Alan Fernand Badel (11 September 1923 – 19 March 1982)                               (*fend)
• Andrea Giordana (born 27 March 1946)
• Mahiro Maeda (born March 14, 1963) i
• Dean Fujioka (born August 19, 1980)
• William Gutiérrez Levy (born August 29, 1980)                                                   (*levy)

Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965)                                     (*bill cons)

Andreas Siegfried Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016),

Note 

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018)

• Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie  25 Mar1762 – 26 Feb 1806)          (*paie)
• Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) the Citizen King
• Napoleon Bonaparte III (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873)
• Watts Phillips (16 November 1825 – 2  December 1874)                                                (*wats) 
• Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) 
• John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792)
• Beatrice Cenci (6 February 1577 – 11 September 1599)
• Cesare Borgia (13 September 1475 – 13 March 1507)
• Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) 
• Karl Ludwig Sand ( 5 October 1795 –  20 May 1820)                                                    (*sand)
• Nicholas I (6 July [O.S. 25 June] 1796 – 2  March [O.S. 18 February] 1855) 
• Auguste Maquet (13 September 1813 – 8 January 1888) 
• Victor Emmanuel II (14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878)
• Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882)
• Alexandre Dumas fils (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) 
• Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) 
• Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) 
• Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867)                                          (*bare)
• Gérard de Nerval (22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855)
• Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798–13 August 1863)
• Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) 
• Jacques René Chirac (29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019)
• Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola  2  April 1840 – 29 September 1902)
• Horatio Nelson (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805)                                                 (*neon)
• Adolphe Charles Adam (24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) 
• François Louis Hippolyte Monpou (12 January 1804 – 10 August 1841)
• Gilbert-Louis Duprez (6 December 1806 – 23 September 1896) 
• Eugène Gautier (27 February 1822 – 1 April 1878 ) 
• Adolphe de Leuven (29 September 1802 – 14 April 1884) 
• Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas ( 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896)
• Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) 

Today is the birthday of Nicholas I

Note 2nd day cluster — May 2 is a blank 

As to the “May __, 20(x2), 22(x2), __,/Even Day, Date Sequence” pattern cluster, and with May 22nd being “one off” from May 23– the day of the year where 222 days remain we use the To bridge the gap, we use the formula as per usual by first going to the days wikipedia page, in this case either May 18 and/or 24, where there are 3 lists— Notable Events; Notable Births and Notable Deaths, where we then limit our search to only years having 3 identical sequence of numbers ie: 1999, 2000…., and taking into consideration the “one off” as mentioned above we arrive at the intended one (of 8 possibilities, see below) who stands out the most: 

• 2001 – Irene Hunt (May 18, 1902 – May 18, 2001)author, illustrator                        (*hunt)

She was the only one whose name is an addition to the recent  “First and Last 2 Letters in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster (making “hunt”) and also an addition to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster (that her first name is an addition to as well and so making “ire”)… so “ire hunt”.  

That she died on her birthday means the cluster (of 3), is complete: 

•  “May __, 20(x2), 22(x2), __,/Even Day, Date Sequence” pattern cluster

• 1998 – Obaidullah Aleem, Indian-Pakistani poet and author 
• 1999 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer
• 1999 – Betty Robinson, American runner 
• 2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik, composer and musicologist
• 2001 – Irene Hunt (May 18, 1902 – May 18, 2001)author, illustrator                        (*hunt)

• 1886 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (died 1946)
• 1888 – Hanna Barysiewicz, the oldest female resident of Belarus 
• 1889 – Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and engineer

Regarding January 7 gap:

• 1998 – Owen Bradley, (October 21, 1915 – January 7, 1998) American record producer (born 1915)^[270]
• 1998 – Vladimir Prelog (23 July 1906 – 7 January 1998) Nobel Prize laureate 
• 2000 – Gary Albright (May 18, 1963 – January 7, 2000) American wrestler 
• 2001 – James Carr (June 13, 1942 – January 7, 2001) American singer 

• 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith (April 16, 1808 – January 7, 1864)  American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (born 1808)^[241]
• 1888 – Golam Ali Chowdhury, Bengali landlord and philanthropist (born 1824)^[242]
• 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (born 1852)

Key contributors and developments in the history of this communication method include:

• Early Caregiver/Manual Methods: The earliest and most fundamental approach to communicating with LIS patients involved families and caregivers creating manual codes, such as blinking (once for 'no', twice for 'yes', or a single blink for 'yes') or looking at letter boards (E-TRAN or Eye Transfer boards) to spell words.
• 1960s-1980s Technological Foundations: Researchers like Alfred Yarbus in the 1950s/60s pioneered eye-tracking, showing that gaze reflects thought processes. This established the premise that eye movement could be used for, rather than just be a result of, communication.
• The 1980s Eye-Gaze System: The first electronic eye-gaze tracking systems that allowed patients with paralysis to control a computer screen were developed in the 1980s.
• Stephen Hawking: In the late 1980s, Sir Stephen Hawking began using an early eye-gaze system on his wheelchair after ALS progressed to the point of preventing him from using his fingers, highlighting the technology's potential for paralyzed individuals.
• Niels Birbaumer: In the 1990s and 2000s, neuroscientist Niels Birbaumer and his team at the University of Tübingen did extensive work in communicating with completely locked-in patients, often using gaze as a starting point before moving to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
• Jean-Dominique Bauby: The French journalist who famously documented his experience with LIS in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (published 1997) dictated his memoir by blinking his left eye to select letters from the alphabet, demonstrating the power of simple eye movement for complex communication.

Alfred Lukyanovich Yarbus (3 April 1914 – 1986)   

Niels Birbaumer (born 11 May 1945)

Jean-Dominique Bauby (23 April 1952 – 9 March 1997)                                   (*baby)