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Wow. Cool. And amazing. I feel old. When I was his age, computers were something that we only saw on 3-2-1 Contact! or read about in the 3-2-1 Contact! magazine.
Gosh.
Very cool!
nice!
How is BB taking it?
That. Is. So. Cool!
And Linux, no less. Well, well.
We have one ready to go under the tree for C and A. Great minds think alike.
As with the Mac, I'm going to troll your comments and blog for tips when we finally get up and running...
Oh, so jealous. I covet one, too, despite having no earthly need for it. They're so cute!
Not my area of expertise I'm afraid, but you're right, it sure does look coo.l.
Cheers
Ah, Chichimama, maybe by Christmas I'll have it all figured out and trolling my comments will be a useful endeavor. For right now, the major question is why the document LG wants me to save and print appears on my computer as an xml document littered with code. Open Office, you are making my life miserable yet again.
Next up after that one: why my attempts to install Adobe Flash so that the *&^#%^$ kids can use PBS Kids have been unsuccessful. I swear I typed everything into the terminal just like the nice wiki said I should do. But I get an error every time.
Groovoid!
My mom wanted to get one for MG, but I asked her to wait a year or two because I didn't think she'd use it. Or rather, she'd either not use it or become addicted to it, and I didn't want to deal with either possibility.
But now I'm wishing I'd said to go ahead. Oooh, shiny cool thing...
Very cool! I hope you get all the kinks worked out soon.
That makes me concerned, very concerned. But you and Mr. Blue are smart people, and I am confident that you will figure out how to get PBS kids up and running for me...
I am so glad you are the early adopter. And perhaps I will suggest to M that he work out the kinks prior to the big day...he had visions of a point and click install I believe.
Kewl! Unfortunately, up here we don't qualify for the tax deduction so it's not as good a deal - not to mention my inherent Luddite tendencies. But I still covet one!
So, so cool!
OOOOOOh. Very nice.
You should be able to run Scratch, which should be a big hit with your uber-creative kiddos. (I have a friend who is involved in the Scratch work, so I've been indoctrinated.) Let me know if you want a sample movie to play with.
So very cool! LG's gonna love it. Meanwhile he's learning the solid truth that no new technology comes easily to the end-user at first.
Madeline, what is Scratch?
Oh, and mlb.com emailed me today that J's final Hanukkah present (a World Series pennant) is on its way. Presents trickling in all over.
What does it say about me that I have no idea what that thing is? "Internet connectivity" and pixie comments tell me it's some kind of computer...
Scratch, for Windows and Mac:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Imagine, create, share
On further research, this is not yet released for Linux (though there are techie ways to make it work). Sorry, I thought my friend said it would be on the OLPCs
Scratch is a programming environment/animation tool for kids. It comes with a bunch of preset images you can animate, and you can draw or import your own, record sounds, etc. You program by clicking together command blocks like legos. If you've seen "Turtle Logo" this is the latest thing from the same educational technology group at MIT.
My seven year old enjoys it, as long as I sit with her to help.
He will love that thing!
Oh. I just noticed the link. Ignore my previous comment.
Awesome!!
I was looking at these, but decided to hold firm to my belief that five year olds don't need computers. But I may be persuaded that six year olds do, and then I might have to go and get her one for her birthday. No pressure, but that might depend at least partially on how things go with this at your house.
Coolness! I looked at those and also at the Zonbu laptop ( http://www.zonbu.com/device/notebook.htm ) but we aren't ready to by anything new just yet.
Please let us know how the flash bit goes. PBSKids and Noggin flash-based games are very important at Chez ChaosGirl.
How's it going now that you've had it for a few days?
We got ours about a week ago. And we purposely kept our 6 yr old from using our desktop computer too much until now. She's about to become an independent reader and it was important for me to get her hooked on books first.
But now ... with the OLPC machine, it is so cool to see her sitting at it and looking so capable and curious and independent.
I've been reading up on the rationale and thinking that went into the open source software applications. I guess I'm trying to have her discover the OLPC machine the way its maker intended.
Anyway, I'd welcome other comments on how its going for your all. ksk
Very cool.
happy new year to the scribbler-blues!
Happy happy New Year to the Scribbler-Blue family, from the Buzz-Bob family! 
Thanks for posting about this! I had seen one of the prototypes and was wandering if they were going to do something like the give one get one program. I don't know if you saw this or not, but it has some useful info... http://www.groklaw.net/
article.p...071223132431291
I'm impatiently waiting for mine. Let me know if any of that helps. Also, would gnash(http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) work instead of flash? I would be curious to know.
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