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October 17, 2006
Technology, wow.
Yesterday I was computing at the library because our home computers are dead. Totally d-e-a-d. The girl at the computer next to me was typing a report for school and her typing was painfully slow. Painfully. It wasn't just hunt-n-peck, it was hunt-n-peck with one finger of one hand. Like she'd never seen a keyboard before. Poor thing. She typed a paragraph comparable to this one in about 30 minutes. (And I wonder, why hasn't her school adopted some sort of typing class for kids her age? She looked like she was about 6th grade or so...)
Well, she couldn't print. They only let you print if you are a library patron. The librarian came over and looked the situation over and informed them "Sorry. You can't print unless you're a patron."
They were going to close the job and leave but I intervened. (Aren't you proud of me?) I saved her little report on my Y'hoo account via her computer, opened it on my computer (and this amazed the girl and her dad), copy-pasted it to Word and printed. Took about 30 seconds. Whew.
They were very thankful. But imagine not being aware of Y'hoo 'it can open anywhere on any computer' technology.
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Um . . . just . . . w. . . o . . . w.
That reminds me of when my grandma first saw a computer. We were showing her all the different applications and the internet and everything -- by using the mouse of course. She started complaining about the arrow:
"What's that arrow thing?!"
"That's the mouse."
"I don't like it. Its annoying!"
"Well, that's how you move around on the computer."
"Well. I don't like it!!"
Posted by: Carrie at October 17, 2006 03:05 PM