not at all about the rugby

[freckles_and_doubt]

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. I have to say (a) I thought so, so much of his dottiness is explained by the Great Tragic Love Affair With The Proto-Nazi, and (b) she's timed the announcement beautifully: manages to have her political cake and eat it. All the liberals will be jumping around happily, the fanficcers are probably swooning, and she's already sold all the books to the frothing right-wing who will feel the need to denounce gay wizards. You go, girl.

I'm a bit sad that Neville marries Hannah Abbot, though. Gay!Neville is a curiously compelling fanfic creation.

Off now to herd toddlers. Wish me luck.

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[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

... practises ...


sorry

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

:o!

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

M loves Youtube too. We have a collection of cat videos that are her personal favourites. She particularly likes the series called "mean kitty".

Families used to gather around the TV screen, now they gather around the computer...how the world changes!

We are so bad even our cats are on facebook! I have yet to "hook" the child up yet...but soon, soon my pretties!

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Oh! and yes, she has the first book in the series. We consider it fairly lacking in plot and character development, but she really likes it. Hairy gets told off every time for digging in the dustbin, and she lets out happy cries of "Dog!" every time P asks "who's this?" pointing at one of the dogs.

And no, you do *not* owe K anything!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I like the series because the rhythm and rhyme of the (I agree, rather simplistic) words work so well for toddlers. Da Niece adores them. She got a Slinky Malinky one for her birthday, as a gesture of cat-indoctrination.

I don't feel obligated, promise: I'm just really enjoying buying books for toddlers.

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

Ex: I think that your desire to give children Hairy Maclary is admirable. We have them all, the DVD, the CD, we even own the cat...big fans.

However when the mouse was small it took us ages to figure out what she meant when she repeated "K K don a day" with rising levels of hysteria...until we eventually realised it was Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. Stupid Grown Ups!

W_N they will always love what you loath...it is a fact of life. I am suffering Bindi the Jungle Girl at the moment (Steve "the crocodile hunter" Irwins precocious and abused daughter). It makes me froth but MM loves it...aaaaargh...I even caught her setting pebbles "free in the wild"!

Zoo biscuits

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

At the party on Saturday, I had a zoo biscuit with a polar bear on (in icing, Saturday was too hot for polar bears). I pointed to the bear and said to my niece "Nanuk" and she said "kitty". I suppose it means more if you know that I have a cat called Nanuk. I was quite impressed by her word-association skills for 16 months old.

Luckily I don't have to do this for a living...

[schedule5.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Luckily I don't have to do this for a living...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

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