Anyway, senior year, the engineer I was seeing at the time was actually working part time in the computer lab as well, so I was there often enough to enjoy watching the progress a mutual friend of ours was making on a project for a programming class he was taking. The assignment was to recreate a classic video game, and he'd chosen Defender, which is a 2D game involving a spaceship that shoots at various things while trying to avoid enemy projectiles.
He didn't appreciate that we nicknamed his version of the game "Duck-fender," but his spaceship really did look like a duck. The final straw, however, came when he started programming the enemy projectiles into the game and they looked for all the world like flying sperm! He got good-natured grief about that from the guys for weeks. It was funny at the time, but over the years I'd completely forgotten about it.
Thing One has been taking a programming elective once a week after school for the last couple of weeks. They are using Scratch to create a computer game, and he's loving every minute of it. Yesterday, he came home with a preliminary version of his game, which he very proudly showed me. And which immediately took me back umpteen years to good ol' Duck-fender!
All I am going to say about his game is that the object shooting the projectiles is supposed to be a rocket and the projectiles are supposed to be bombs of some kind. And that my mind went somewhere else entirely based on their actual appearances, although fortunately I had the presence of mind and self-control to keep my mouth shut and not laugh out loud. Good thing, too, because the explanations could have been seriously awkward!
LOL. That awkward moment when you can't say what you're thinking for fear of messing with a kiddo's development. Nice.
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