Man, these old models were bulky! There was no chance of one getting lost in your ear canal. ;-) Then again, the Fischer-Price models for children's digicams, cassette and CD players are similarly large. But also durable. Probably IS a great gift for a kid.
And a very lovely kid she still is. It's by no means systematic that a pretty child will grow up into a beautiful adult, but for her I have a very good feeling. She's gonna be turning the boys' heads very soon. And, unlike SOME very dirty-minded people, I say that without any personal plans. ;-)
Having lil' uns growing up at home (my brother's kids), I'm beginning to fathom what a father might feel. Especially one that's just unprotective enough to be a good dad. :-) Why, the little sister, still just 2½, has a very strong personality and is already a regular heartbreaker with boys. I guess having a bigger brother forces you to not become a wimp. :-D
"Couldn't stop bouncing and chattering"... I bet I'd love to meet Jade. I love children who are full of life. It's like they diffuse that youthful energy around them and just by being there you breathe in the benefits.
Well, she is a tiny person, this is actually an iPod Nano! Though from that generation where they were more squarish.
I like her a lot, couldn't wish for a more pleasant kid, but in support of my complaints about video games, whenever she has visited in the past year or so, she no longer sits and draws, and doesn't want to go on walks with me, only to play video games online.
A couple years ago we played ball or freeshbee in the garden a few times. One time she managed to get the freeshbee to fly in almost opposite direction to where I was standing, and over the high fence, across a walk path and over another fence. We had like a three-minute walk to recover it!
Bean bag tossing games teach hand-eye coordination, have the advantage for younger kids of not taking a bad bounce like tennis, basket balls etc. and are fun anyway. (Tossing games with corn kernel bags are popular in bars the mid-western states - name is an unfortunate crude double-entendre: Corn Hole.) Anyway, these skills transfer to other sports, or driving nails for that matter. Kids can enjoy it, if you can coax them to try (got to get them outdoors!) Amazon can show you a few examples. -Eric
I like her a lot, couldn't wish for a more pleasant kid, but in support of my complaints about video games, whenever she has visited in the past year or so, she no longer sits and draws, and doesn't want to go on walks with me, only to play video games online.
That's too bad. Maybe you are right about the evils of video games. I'm in my late 30s and although video games existed back then I don't remember the addiction that today's kids seem to have. A few people seemed to spend their lives in the arcades but not many. Now it seems like the majority of kids only care about video games. My 17-year-old cousin's goal in life is to design video games. He's a talented artist. At one time he wanted to go into animation, which would in my opinion be a much more laudable goal. I mean animation is an art form. The WB cartoons hold up today as well as they did decades ago. Pixar's movies will be watched and enjoyed for just as long at least. But video games? Blech!
You guys seem to be forgetting how blurry the frontier between cinema and videogames has become. Take the DragonBallZ games: for years now they've been so gorgeous (and I've only seen them on my outdated PS2!) that they should redo the whole animated series in machinima. It would look absolutely awesome. In fact, the DBZ Budokai games are in good part animated-on-the-go narrative.
The other day in the mall, I got to try Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for a good moment. (Actually, until I noticed a very small and very cute kid looking at me with anticipation :-) Friggin' awesome.
The only problem is when kids don't know how to be reasonable about it. Or, in a word, it depends on the EDUCATION they've received -or haven't!-. Is it any healthier to play inside with miniature cars going "vroom-vroom" for hours, or with stiff barely articulated dollies posing them here and there?
I used to hear the exact same words about television in my days. The result? Today, my parents spend a lot more time watching TV than I do!!! That's because I'm "always glued in front of that damn internet with virtual friends". ;-P
But honestly? Given the typical mentalities in these parts, as far as friends go you people are a lot less virtual than the folks I could be wasting my (still) prime with. At least you've got interesting conversation.
The typical banter of Lebanese natives feels more predictable and scripted that a cheap RPG.
Pascal said... ""That's because I'm "always glued in front of that damn internet with virtual friends". ;-P"
Same goes for me. :-)
"But honestly? Given the typical mentalities in these parts, as far as friends go you people are a lot less virtual than the folks I could be wasting my (still) prime with. At least you've got interesting conversation."
I know that I learn a lot from everybody, here; enjoy the stuff Eo blogs; and...enjoy laughing @ any and all humor, here...especially yours, Pascal. Thanks, all. :-)
If animation is a legitimate artform, then why not video games? Lets try to look beyond the stereotypes. They've come a long way since Pac Man. These days, they're practically movies where you can control the characters' actions. Personally, I think Final Fantasy 7 holds up as well as any work of fiction ever made. I'll agree they can be addictive, but that could be said about almost anything.
No one fifty years from now will give two shits (or even one) about any of the Final Fantasy games or any other video game. They'll be a footnote in the history of computers.
Computer/video games also seem to lead to addiction in a way that many other things don't, so it's idiotic to defend them by saying "sure, they're addictive, what isn't?"
"No one fifty years from now will give two shits (or even one) about any of the Final Fantasy games or any other video game. They'll be a footnote in the history of computers."
First of all, why would that be important? I don't live in the future, I live right now.
And second, I don't think it's true. People are still playing Super Mario Bros twenty years later. Hell, I still go back to Street Fighter 2 on a pretty regular basis. I mean, come on dude, look at the world around you. Games are a million dollar industry, and they don't show any sign of slowing down. You honestly think people are gonna get bored with them in just fifty years?
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I'm pleased to see her again. I remember her.
Yah, she was only four years old in my first post in 2005.
http://tr.im/ioZ9
Start 'em young eh? Me thinks she needs a sax. :o)
Man, these old models were bulky! There was no chance of one getting lost in your ear canal. ;-)
Then again, the Fischer-Price models for children's digicams, cassette and CD players are similarly large. But also durable. Probably IS a great gift for a kid.
And a very lovely kid she still is.
It's by no means systematic that a pretty child will grow up into a beautiful adult, but for her I have a very good feeling. She's gonna be turning the boys' heads very soon.
And, unlike SOME very dirty-minded people, I say that without any personal plans. ;-)
Having lil' uns growing up at home (my brother's kids), I'm beginning to fathom what a father might feel.
Especially one that's just unprotective enough to be a good dad. :-)
Why, the little sister, still just 2½, has a very strong personality and is already a regular heartbreaker with boys.
I guess having a bigger brother forces you to not become a wimp. :-D
"Couldn't stop bouncing and chattering"... I bet I'd love to meet Jade. I love children who are full of life.
It's like they diffuse that youthful energy around them and just by being there you breathe in the benefits.
Well, she is a tiny person, this is actually an iPod Nano! Though from that generation where they were more squarish.
I like her a lot, couldn't wish for a more pleasant kid, but in support of my complaints about video games, whenever she has visited in the past year or so, she no longer sits and draws, and doesn't want to go on walks with me, only to play video games online.
What I gave her was the green one:
http://tr.im/iqzJ
Eolake said...
"...doesn't want to go on walks with me." Sad. :-( I agree w/your video game thoughts.
Very sweet gift, Eo. :-)
A couple years ago we played ball or freeshbee in the garden a few times. One time she managed to get the freeshbee to fly in almost opposite direction to where I was standing, and over the high fence, across a walk path and over another fence. We had like a three-minute walk to recover it!
Bean bag tossing games teach hand-eye coordination, have the advantage for younger kids of not taking a bad bounce like tennis, basket balls etc. and are fun anyway. (Tossing games with corn kernel bags are popular in bars the mid-western states - name is an unfortunate crude double-entendre: Corn Hole.) Anyway, these skills transfer to other sports, or driving nails for that matter. Kids can enjoy it, if you can coax them to try (got to get them outdoors!) Amazon can show you a few examples.
-Eric
I like her a lot, couldn't wish for a more pleasant kid, but in support of my complaints about video games, whenever she has visited in the past year or so, she no longer sits and draws, and doesn't want to go on walks with me, only to play video games online.
That's too bad. Maybe you are right about the evils of video games. I'm in my late 30s and although video games existed back then I don't remember the addiction that today's kids seem to have. A few people seemed to spend their lives in the arcades but not many. Now it seems like the majority of kids only care about video games. My 17-year-old cousin's goal in life is to design video games. He's a talented artist. At one time he wanted to go into animation, which would in my opinion be a much more laudable goal. I mean animation is an art form. The WB cartoons hold up today as well as they did decades ago. Pixar's movies will be watched and enjoyed for just as long at least. But video games? Blech!
That's exactly what I said about my 15-year-old nephew in an earlier post.
You guys seem to be forgetting how blurry the frontier between cinema and videogames has become. Take the DragonBallZ games: for years now they've been so gorgeous (and I've only seen them on my outdated PS2!) that they should redo the whole animated series in machinima. It would look absolutely awesome.
In fact, the DBZ Budokai games are in good part animated-on-the-go narrative.
The other day in the mall, I got to try Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for a good moment. (Actually, until I noticed a very small and very cute kid looking at me with anticipation :-)
Friggin' awesome.
The only problem is when kids don't know how to be reasonable about it. Or, in a word, it depends on the EDUCATION they've received -or haven't!-.
Is it any healthier to play inside with miniature cars going "vroom-vroom" for hours, or with stiff barely articulated dollies posing them here and there?
I used to hear the exact same words about television in my days. The result? Today, my parents spend a lot more time watching TV than I do!!!
That's because I'm "always glued in front of that damn internet with virtual friends". ;-P
But honestly? Given the typical mentalities in these parts, as far as friends go you people are a lot less virtual than the folks I could be wasting my (still) prime with.
At least you've got interesting conversation.
The typical banter of Lebanese natives feels more predictable and scripted that a cheap RPG.
Pascal said...
""That's because I'm "always glued in front of that damn internet with virtual friends". ;-P"
Same goes for me. :-)
"But honestly? Given the typical mentalities in these parts, as far as friends go you people are a lot less virtual than the folks I could be wasting my (still) prime with.
At least you've got interesting conversation."
I know that I learn a lot from everybody, here; enjoy the stuff Eo blogs; and...enjoy laughing @ any and all humor, here...especially yours, Pascal. Thanks, all. :-)
If animation is a legitimate artform, then why not video games? Lets try to look beyond the stereotypes. They've come a long way since Pac Man. These days, they're practically movies where you can control the characters' actions. Personally, I think Final Fantasy 7 holds up as well as any work of fiction ever made. I'll agree they can be addictive, but that could be said about almost anything.
Admittedly true, Jes.
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I suspect that people who think Net conversations are "not real" have no differentiation between quality of conversation.
No one fifty years from now will give two shits (or even one) about any of the Final Fantasy games or any other video game. They'll be a footnote in the history of computers.
Computer/video games also seem to lead to addiction in a way that many other things don't, so it's idiotic to defend them by saying "sure, they're addictive, what isn't?"
"No one fifty years from now will give two shits (or even one) about any of the Final Fantasy games or any other video game. They'll be a footnote in the history of computers."
First of all, why would that be important? I don't live in the future, I live right now.
And second, I don't think it's true. People are still playing Super Mario Bros twenty years later. Hell, I still go back to Street Fighter 2 on a pretty regular basis. I mean, come on dude, look at the world around you. Games are a million dollar industry, and they don't show any sign of slowing down. You honestly think people are gonna get bored with them in just fifty years?
"I mean, come on dude, look at the world around you. "
I'd suggest you take that advice. Get off your fat ass. Stop wasting your life.
Use your brain once in a while, too. It obviously needs a serious workout.
"I'd suggest you take that advice. Get off your fat ass. Stop wasting your life.
Use your brain once in a while, too. It obviously needs a serious workout."
Yo mama so fat, she sat on a rainbow, and it started raining skittles.
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