I’m thinking of things slower than my acquisition of computer skills. The good part is I still can get a charge, a thrill, and feeling of “thata boy” when I figure something out and it proves useful. Most recently I figured out how to add people to my blog roll. I don’t so much like to write my own stuff, but I like to comment on other people’s stuff. This is all related. How? You might ask. Well the computer phobia/resistance was justified to my college roommates in the early 80s by saying, “I’m a people person. I won’t spend my life interacting with a machine.” When I started my teaching career I used the computer for basic word processing and email. I thought that computer were very handy and served my needs just fine. I remained resistant to learning much more than that. The next stage of wrongful thinking was, “I’m too far behind to catch up. I’m a Sixth grader with Kindergarten skills.” But today I felt a satisfaction from just experimenting and nothing was blown up or crashed or lost. So I’m taking on a new attitude to help me and encourage me to take the plunge into cyber space. My advantage is I didn’t waste a lot of brain cells learning all that obsolete stuff from 20 years ago. Now that the technology has run its course, I can start learning how to use it and it won’t be different or improved for a long long time. Man, I feel good. And think of all the brain space I have available, or “memory” if you will. See that? I just made a computer reference.
That’s all the blogging for today. I’m hungry and I gotta gigabyte. Get it? Gigabyte. Hungry. I can tell this class is going to open so many portals for me.
tata
