The garklet has taken to my iPod Touch like, well, a toddler to a device with an icon-rich direct manipulation user interface. Last month, he impressed me by being able to unlock it without having been shown how (must have watched me). Two weeks ago, he impressed me by playing music on it (and correctly understanding that |> means go and || means stop). Last week, he demonstrated that he was able to *select* music on it.
This morning, when the iPod 'boing'ed me awake, he snatched it, searched out and started up the photo app (it isn't on my home screen), showed ias and myself photos of him and both of us, and then quit the app and started up the Aera flying game (I hesitate before calling it a flight simulator - it's too much fun for that).
I fear for the day that he starts playing with my email before I'm properly awake.
Oh, thank you for this excellent post: it's great that you've recorded so much detail, because you won't remember it when **FIXME and **TODO are older.
Walking! And psychological conversation! Amazing stuff, and so quickly.
I'm wondering if broccoli is **FIXME's favourite food to look at, or for its surface exture, or tree-form, rather than its taste? (We can't get enough of the stuff, along with spinach, but I'm reasoning along the lines of "children are actually logical within their own contexts" so he may be reporting accurately without actually wanting to eat broccoli.)
We have frequent discussions over this one (and cucumbers, and other things I have forgot). I have taken to saying very firmly "botanically it's a fruit, but culinarily it is a vegetable" in a tone that brooks no contradiction.
At one point C had it in his head that strawberries weren't fruit, because Daddy had told us they aren't strictly speaking berries. For my part, I class that in the same category as "black isn't a colour" and refuse to give up centuries of linguistic tradition just because some scientists have redefined a word for their own field of study.
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This morning, when the iPod 'boing'ed me awake, he snatched it, searched out and started up the photo app (it isn't on my home screen), showed ias and myself photos of him and both of us, and then quit the app and started up the Aera flying game (I hesitate before calling it a flight simulator - it's too much fun for that).
I fear for the day that he starts playing with my email before I'm properly awake.
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Walking! And psychological conversation! Amazing stuff, and so quickly.
I'm wondering if broccoli is **FIXME's favourite food to look at, or for its surface exture, or tree-form, rather than its taste? (We can't get enough of the stuff, along with spinach, but I'm reasoning along the lines of "children are actually logical within their own contexts" so he may be reporting accurately without actually wanting to eat broccoli.)
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oh joy.
We have frequent discussions over this one (and cucumbers, and other things I have forgot). I have taken to saying very firmly "botanically it's a fruit, but culinarily it is a vegetable" in a tone that brooks no contradiction.
At one point C had it in his head that strawberries weren't fruit, because Daddy had told us they aren't strictly speaking berries. For my part, I class that in the same category as "black isn't a colour" and refuse to give up centuries of linguistic tradition just because some scientists have redefined a word for their own field of study.
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