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extemporanea

not at all about the rugby

Oct 21, 2007 08:00

It seems to be a random sort of morning. Thus, random linkery:

Programming language inventor or serial killer? Difficult to say, actually. I got 5/10. It's cheating to actually know what seminal programmers look like, all you geeks who are going to knock my score into a cocked hat.

And, apparently, Dumbledore was gay. No, really, Rowling says so ( Read more... )

linkery, hee, potterslash, harry potter

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wolverine_nun October 22 2007, 07:01:47 UTC

K recognises your userpic :D. I don't think she's actually recognising it as a picture of you, as I have pointed it out before and told her that it represents you. But any way, she'll point at it delightedly and call your name when she sees it on my screen :)

extemporanea October 22 2007, 07:17:15 UTC

Good grief. She thus has more of a grasp of LJ than some adults. Doesn't it scare you to think that your two-year-old daughter is already literate in technologies which didn't exist ten years ago and have been painstakingly acquired by us in adulthood? It's a bit dizzying to think what her generation will probably achieve, being embedded from birth in a world with an internet as a given. One starts to see where Charles Stross is coming from.

Does K own any of the Hairy Maclary opus, btw? if so, which ones? I still owe her a birthday present.

wolverine_nun October 22 2007, 07:45:05 UTC

It is a bit, well, I wouldn't say scary, but certainly remarkable, that she gains these skills so fast. She can say "press button", using this one a lot, also, she knows the things on the screen are called windows! "Mummy, close window," she'll say, contemplatively eating cereal and watching me do stuff on my laptop.

We were watching the Crown final on YouTube and I was explaining "they're playing the game that daddy plays, the one he practices in the morning" (she regularly wakes up during sessions of pell work :) and she was demanding "more games, Mummy!" and I had to go surfing YouTube, looking for combat videos. It's not just a technological upbringing she's getting :). She knows quite a bit about armour by this time, too :D

wolverine_nun October 22 2007, 09:04:32 UTC

... practises ...

sorry

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Luckily I don't have to do this for a living... schedule5 October 22 2007, 09:15:15 UTC

4/10 on the serial killer / programmer test. Hmmm...

Re: Luckily I don't have to do this for a living... extemporanea October 22 2007, 09:46:42 UTC

I like the way they advise the testee not to seek a career in law enforcement or IT recruitment :>.