Author: Alex

Animal Finder

Alex / / Alex, Critters, Mago Elf Liam

Mago: I just had an idea for how to find all the animals of one kind. Find a few of them and sample their DNA and then put it into a computer and have the computer analyze it, and then upload it to a satellite that scans the world for that kind of DNA, and it will find all the animals of that kind.
Me: Hmm, I dunno how a satellite finds DNA.
Mago: I dunno. A very advanced satellite.

Twitter Weekly Digest for 2012-06-03

Alex / / Twitter Digests
  • My nephew was baptised, and afterward, & after everyone sang “I am a Child of God,” I (Alex) imagined someone shouted “PLAY BALL!” #
  • Times like this I’m grateful to have any kind of Brain-to-Mouth Filter installed. Cuz’ I’d totally be there. I’d totally shout that. #
  • Nem, after the baptism service meeting: “When we sang, [Mago] was only doing the actings of the mouth.”#

One Thousand Times the Wonders

Alex / / Alex, Mago Elf Liam

Me: Your world has a thousand times more wonders and distractions than mine did.
Mago: Because you didn’t have the internet.
Me: I didn’t have internet games, or games on phones, or really advanced consoles for games like the Wii. But I did have computers I played games on, and the Nintendo.

[I wish I had said: “We played Angry Birds through the snow uphill to and from school. And we liked it.”]

Mago: What computers?
Me: I had the Commodore 64.
Mago: What’s the Commodore 64?
Me: (face of dissapointment) That old computer I’ve shown you. With the giant keyboard.
Mago: Oh. What’ju play on it?
Me: A lot of things. That game “HARD HAT MACK” I’ve shown you, and a game called “ZORK” where it’s like you talk to the book–
Mago: Oh, and that game where you’re a mouse in a maze.
Me: “RADAR RAT RACE.” Right.
Mago: Wait. What’s “BLACK HAT SMASH?”
Me: Huh?…I think you mean “HARD HAT MACK?”

Vegetable Wars

Alex / / Nem Nem Niamh, Tia

Every day is a battle to get vegetables into Nem’s tummy. (Nem is four years old at this writing.)

This evening:

Tia: Nem, come here and get some veggies in your tummy…
Nem: Actually, I don’t very much eat those.

I chuckle.

Nem: What? What’s funny?
Me: You are.
Nem: No I’m not.
Me: I think you’re being very silly.
Nem: No, that’s not silly!

Later, I could’nt recall how she phrased her reply (to write this), so I asked her.

Me: Nem, what did you say about vegetables?
Nem: I said I don’t very much eat those…And it’s not funny. At all.