Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Did you mean?

So Sarah, technologically savvy as she is, has joined the twenty-first century and got herself a smart phone. Among many things, it has had the effect of pleasing the boys because they get, under special circumstances, to play Angry Birds. The first night we let them do this, each one would play while books were read to the other. Connor was so excited he could hardly stand it, and as he played he kept muttering "Angra birds, angra birds, angra birds".

It is astonishing to see the skill with which he has adapted to using the phone but sometimes he gets in trouble. To keep a grip on the phone he has to really wrap his wee hands around it so that sometimes he inadvertently hits a button and is navigated away from the game. This displeases him and we are called in. This happened last night. I was in the other other room but I heard a series of anxious/angry noises and went into check it out. I soon saw that he had somehow activated the voice recognition function, which had kept a record of his utterances. It looked about like this:

"Did you mean: ooooo ooooooooo?"
"Did you mean: oo ooooooh?"
"Did you mean: ooooooooo?"
There were about 15 variations of this and then:
"Did you mean: hell yeah?"

Not quite sure what produced this last one.

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