Time To Stand and Stare

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? No time to stand beneath the boughs and stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, in broad daylight, streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, and watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can, enrich that smile her eyes began? A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. William Henry Davies

Saturday, February 5, 2011

What Jamie has been up to

Sorry about the darkness of the screen, apparently that is a problem with the video program he downloaded. Entirely on his own, without any instruction(other than online instruction) or adult intervention, he has figured out how to create videos of video games. And I was worried he was WASTING his time playing on the computer.

You can also see him on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JC1gPFt9U

He is yxo87. For those who are as computer illiterate as me, when you see him typing it is in white and any backslashes indicate that he is using a command to change something in the game. Where did he learn all this??????????

2 comments:

moominmamma said...: Too cool. My 14yo is completely taken with Minecraft as well. It's given him an amazing window into game development, as he's been in on the game's evolution from almost the beginning.

Nice to see you blogging again!; February 5, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Colleen said...: Well actually it was through you that I learned about minecraft. I still lurk on your blog from time to time. I thought the boys might dabble with this game a bit then lose interest....NOT SO. Jamie will play for hours. I can't believe how much he has learned about recording etc. It has gotten so I am asking him how to do things on the computer(but that might not be saying much!).; February 5, 2011 at 10:07 PM