Saturday, December 3, 2011

Technobabble

Our friend Hunter started the kids building lego cell phones... generally they look like rectangles minimally dressed up with bits that look like buttons. After Finn had made about 20 of these, I asked him what he was mass producing:


His answer: "iPhones!" Well, duh. Larkin heard my question and thought she would help any other kinda slow adults out a little bit with a homonym clue:


Yup. An eyePhone. Finn, not to be out-done, announced that he was designing a model for spies. Wait for it...


That's right... it's an INVISIBLEiPhone.

The kids and I recently had a long discussion about what fractals are. Imagine their delight upon discovering this with the produce:


They were quite tickled by the idea of eating fractals for dinner, although after a taste they both decided to stick with the traditional broccoli we cooked with it.

In other culinary news, Larkin and Finn were very excited to find baby octopi in the seafood section of the grocery store. Emile, bless his fishy little heart, looked up a recipe on-line. After an overnight marinade and a few minutes on the grill, everyone (ahem, almost everyone) gave them a try. Neither Larkin nor Finn have a new favorite food, but Emile, Elly and Janelle declared them remarkably tasty. But can you blame me for not trying them? Check out this cute little guy:


It's wrong, I tell you. Just wrong.

1 comment:

  1. Funny, octopi are the only animals i feel guilty about eating. So much so that even tho i love them (sashimi style, thinly sliced, a little lemon juice), i basically refuse to eat them. Tho, i suppose, ocean going mammals would also be on the do not eat list if it ever came up.

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