Saturday, February 24, 2007

The Knack

If you search for "knack dilbert" at YouTube, you can watch the Dilbert video clip that explains The Knack. My favorite version of the clip is/was this one, but Sony pulled it (no big surprise, as they still don't get it about Blu-Ray that also doesn't have the picture quality, and they don't get it about DRM or rootkits either). The jist is that Dilbert has The Knack as a child, so he is fated to become an engineer.

Well, looks like Karston has The Knack. This morning, he had to show us that he has mastered his hop frog (a toy that jumps if you press the lever on its back). He made sure we were watching, set down the hop frog, and made it jump. Our house came with two units for an FM intercom system. He can turn the intercom on, and put the two speakers together for feedback. In fact, all this week we kept finding the intercoms on when we knew we'd turned them off recently. Last night, Karston followed Daddy into the bathroom, then went back to the living room for his step stool. He put his step stool next to the vanity, climbed on, and started re-arranging everything next to the sink. This morning, he pulled my hand mixer out of the kitchen cabinet (very common so far), but then he dragged it into the living room to plug the mixer into an outlet he could reach (child-proofed of course, but he tries to get around that too). He knows the mixer is more fun when it's plugged in ... argh! The Knack means we have to watch him very closely.

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