Maybe we should all go back to the web on Post-Its. You remember, when you were able to keep a collection of URLs, organized, in your cubicle. Or how about the refined version, published by some firm that really didn’t understand what was happening. The Top 100. Perhaps you need a different tool: Gopher worked. Sort of.
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My travel through the tunnel continues. I’m referring to Halt And Catch Fire. Time travel, starting back at the DOS prompt.
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For several years, I’ve been intending to watch the series “Halt And Catch Fire”. And tonight, by accident, I did.
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There are such interesting tools available to the mathematically challenged. Why, I just learned that I am close to 35 million minutes old, and thanks to a skilled programmer, I didn’t have to carry digits or try to compensate for leap seconds. Pretty cool!
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I had almost forgotten about that! In photos of the new and shiny car (not actually new, but definitely gleaming), there was an unidentified object. Turns out, we own one of those gadgets required while camping: an inverter, to charge things in the car). I mean, I knew we had one, but after not camping for several seasons it had disappeared from view.
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Over the years, I had become complacent. After all, I didn’t need to print, often. And we had (have) more printers than would be considered as practical. When your use is occasional, and fractioned, you don’t realize that, perhaps, things are not working all that well.
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As a rational being, I don’t believe in luck. That stated; I am having such a run of “bad luck” with technology. I’ve mentioned that we have replaced a number of hard drives (and a computer, in one case). Goes with the age of the equipment. Well, today the wifi router simply quit.
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Don’t be fooled by the similarities. Dogs are individual. Different. I just watched our visitor probing the kitchen sink for anything interesting, and I can say that our own dog has never tried that route to something wonderful. I was too shy to signal the incongruity, and the visitor has better teeth than me. All of this is temporary; I’m just the sitter for the afternoon/evening. Soon we will go back to our personal “one dog, one family” model. And I will be able to put the trash bins back at floor level, and refill the dog dishes (emptied as a premptive move on my part). Less reason to row.
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School is open. Not everywhere, but across the nation, in small, childlike steps. And we now have to prepare for “the next wave”. You know, pandemically speaking. It’s still too early to call for a trend, so we’re going to have to accept anecdotal evidence. Often without a clear grasp of the population numbers.
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I do believe that it takes a village to raise a child. We’re doing our part. When the blue-eyed hound from yesterday came back, it brought the rest of its “pack”; twins, as a plus. And since young children don’t accept the hospitality of folks, just because we’re old enough to be surrogate grandparents, they came ready to play. We have computers, and they have the mindset.
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