…This is not me,
No matter what you think you see.
I am not here, this is not me…
Just passing by…
I’m really enjoying my Wonder Woman’s grad classes right now. For one thing, she’s in a degree program aimed at “technologizing” librarians, and that means I get to be her onsite consultant, sounding board and even tutor at times.
But one of the other things I’ve enjoyed has been watching her heartily embrace actually using the kinds of technologies (read, “toys”) I’ve been surrounding myself with for years. This computer (yeh, I happen to be using hers right now, cos I had some maintenance to do on it) is a brand new lil Toshiba notebook–one of those rare “built by someone other than me” computers that have graced our household. It’s nice, but she also needed a new scanner (couldn’t use mine cos I’d given it to Son & Heir for school), a handheld (found her a nice lil Palm) and some other neat lil toys, just for one class this Fall.
(No, that’s not the Palm I found for her. :-))
Yeh, that means not only is she learning to use ’em all, but I play with ’em too. Even broke down and finally got a Palm for myself… mostly for notetaking and reading eBooks on while I’m out n about and doing the occasional “hurry up n wait” stint. Been a few years since I carried a Daytimer (and logged my day in 15-minute increments), but I may do a lil of that, too. Might even save some of those inspired blogposts I later ask myself, “Now, what was that blogpost idea” about.
*heh*
Speaking of toys. I installed Steve Gibson’s lil “ClickType” app for my logon on WW’s lil notebook, so I could know when I missed actually depressing a key (each keypress sounds like a manual typewriter “click”). Need to remember to put that on my cruiser…
Oh, well, not really much of import; just a drive-by post.
Linking in over at Clash of Civilizations (even though I have to wonder what other civilization he’s talking about :-))
Palm is nearly ubiquitous, but I still prefer Pocket PC for it’s integration with my Windows apps. I carry mine anytime I’m away from home or my desktop at work. In addition to all the nifty business uses the 1GB flash card full of MP3’s is handy and so is a pocket version of Joust!
Ha, sounds like you are having just as much if not more fun than she is! It sounds like a great thing all around, I’m glad she is able to do that and that you’ve got a little Palm too. I’m just hoping for a laptop in the future, but no thoughts of a Palm (oh goodness, I have expensive insurance on all our cell phones after what the little one has done in the past, I can’t imagine what he could do with a Palm).
Anyway, just dropping in to see how you are doing, still battling a nasty cold-thing along with celebrating the little one’s birthday this past week so I haven’t been around to visit as much as I’d like.