This morning Benjamin was sitting at his computer and I looked over to hear rather strange "popping" sounds emerging and a fireplace image appearing inside Windows Media Player. Not a particularly pleasant sound but the visualizations looked very much like a fire place. Curious as to how he did it I went over and watched.
I am not sure of the exact details because I can't reproduce it on my computer but he essentially took a drawing he had made in MSPaint and renamed it to have no extension. Next he double clicked on a file and was prompted with a dialog asking him which program he would like to open it with. After selecting Windows Media Player he selected yes when prompted about playing it even though Windows Media Player did not support the format. Voilà! He had a fire place with strange popping sounds that corresponded to sparks flying out of the fire place.
It is not surprising that I didn't know about "Plenoptic: Random" theme in Windows Media Player (I confess I don't use the visualizations or even play MP3s). What is troubling is that my four year old taught me something about computers that I didn't know. I expect this to be the first uf many, many, more lessons.
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