Being Smart in a Stupid Way

Found on the home page of a website today, this small piece of instruction:

Note: A click on the Français/English link - upper left - will take you to each corresponding page in the other language.

The site? Mensa.

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Who woulda thought? It figures.

Leaving Saskatoon this afternoon for my long drive home I saw, pulled over at the side of the highway, a broken-down tow truck being towed by a broken-down tow truck.

Say it with me: Eye. Ron. Nick.

Yeah, I really do think.

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Tapping on that spacebar

Grandpa Robb has come for a visit. Like most grandparents who’ve not seen their grandchildren in a year, he came bearing gifts. In addition to the usual stuffed animals and dresses and sticker books, he also brought the girls an XO PC.

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Rowan gets her geek on.
Rowan writing a letter in the Write activity

This is a nice little computer, that satisfies the nerd even in me. It’s quite a powerful little machine for tiny hands, and I find it quite refreshing that it’s a computer that’s the size of a toy, rather than a toy that pretends to be a computer.

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Lilah gets her geek on.
Lilah drawing a picture in the Draw activity

We’ve set the computer up for the girls on the coffee table, where our laptops live, so that we can all use our computers at the same place in the house. The girls, who always want to be just like Mummy, don’t have to pretend anymore. And with a real web browser, Rowan can play her games from the CBC website on her own computer.

It’s pretty cute, isn’t it? The little green ’n’ white computer, being used by the wee midgets?

Also pretty cute?

The computer’s point of view:

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Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?

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