Thursday, March 03, 2005
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Only two more classes to learn all about how to use the computer. The last class is mostly sharing what we have done for our unit project. I am doing mine on the water cycle. I have made some powerpoints, newspaper, and lots of other stuff. I haven't figured how this is gonna make me computer literate, but I have learned some things.
Testing is over for a few weeks. We have one more set of testing in late April, early May.
My daughter in law has strep throat. Ian woke up in the night last night crying with his throat and head hurting. My guess is strep, but his Dad was taking him to the doctor today.
I had dinner with the kids and Will last night. We had a good time and I didn't have to eat alone. BF is still taking classes nearly every night.
Hope everyone is doing great at whatever makes you happy.
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Dear Cynthia,
Well, my visit isn't complete this morning until I make a comment on this entry. I "finally" got my home computer in 1997, a year after I convinced my boss (in his 80s now) that we needed a computer for my schematics and dimensional diagrams for the panels we build, since we were getting too big for me to "hand draw" all the schematics needed for each job. So at work, I "concentrated" on one "program" at a time, first the CAD (computer assisted design) program, then spreadsheets, word processing documents, etc. I call the computer a "typewriter with pictures". I type fairly fast as it is, and have always developed "forms" and "labor saving" means at work (I like a clean desktop, unlike almost every other person at work, who have papers piled everywhere.) I would "learn" what I needed from each program.
At home, I of course got internet service, and in 97 the internet (and computers, for that matter) weren't as sophisticated at they are now. My first operating system was Windows 95 and we had 3.2 at work. As soon as the "power" of computing made itself aware to me, I bought three systems in rapid order, culminating with my present puter, which, purchased in 2001, is pretty ancient now, but is running on Windows XP and contains enough memory and programs for me to design and keep up my websites, and to display video and audio quite well, so it doesn't need to be replaced right now.
My "learning curve" has always been "program based". I find that some programs allow me to do what I want (in image editing, for instance) but they might be limited in other ways, and then I'll find a program that does something else I want to do, so I might use three or four different programs to accomplish any one task.
I can tear the computers apart and put them back together, and I can even write a little HTML code. Like anything else, if one is open to "learning" then one has magic doors open for him all the time. I love computers now, and am slowly but surely working them into the entertainment center in the media room at home.
On the other hand, my roommate, when in the throes of suffering chemo treatments in the early days of the cancer, bought a top of the line Apple Imac computer, which just sits on his desk. He can burn DVD's on the thing, we got wireless internet service so he can surf the net on my account, and still he isn't interested. He doesn't know what he 'needs' a puter for.
Mine took the place of my typewriter, plus it displays pictures.
And to seque back to your blog, I love the photos of cats and animals that you post here. The one of the cats looking hungrily over the hampster is priceless.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool