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Silly Me Modern electronic gadgets – we all seem to need them to some degree. I usually get one, find out how it does what I want it to do then use it until it dies. Life with a techie, however, provides another view of the matter. I have learned that there seems to be no end to what these things do – or don’t do. Chuck and I both have new, android phones. When I got mine a figured out how to make and send texts and calls, pick up voice mails, access my web browser and keep it charged. After that I just ignored all of the things it could do. Chuck spent 2 weeks playing with his, adding all sorts of things and finding out that many things just don’t work the way they are advertized or worse yet conflict with each other. 3 weeks into this he can do all sorts of things but he has difficulty making and answering calls. I thought a telephone made and received calls – silly me. Satellite radio. Living out here we only got 2 stations. I have had satellite radio in my car since I purchased it and love it so for Christmas I got him a satellite radio for the house. Hooked up and working well for what he originally wanted. Well, it does lots more so he added a car kit and can also use it in his car. Not so complicated. It also has a recorder, MP3 player and likely other things I know nothing about. He was playing with it today for one of the other features. I’m not sure what it does now but what it is not doing is picking up the radio signal. I thought radios played music – silly me. Good old fashioned hard copy books that I can mark up keep and go back to are my choice. He has a Kindle Fire to down load books and listen to audio books – But – it also accesses the web and has seems to have an endless supply of advanced levels of Angry Birds. Worked so well for web surfing and games that it forgot how to down load books. 2 hours of fiddling and a call to tech support to learn that it had to “reboot” to go back to books. I thought e-readers were for reading books – silly me. Then there are actual computers. I’m not even going there. We have about 8 in the house. I have my full sized lap top and my small net book. I know how to use the programs I need well – e-mail, web browser, photo program and word processing. Yes, I know I way under use the potential of my equipment but it does what I need it for quite well. My biggest problems with the computer are when I drop it and break something. He has about 6 computers including a split monitor (2 that can do the same or different things), virtual machine to duplicate his worksite machine and allow him to work from anywhere, and many things I try my best to ignore. At least one day of the week is spent fixing something that got messed up when he tried to do add something new. I thought computers were supposed to make our lives easier – Silly me. Yup, I’m one silly old woman expecting electronic gadgets to be what they were designed to do. Spiritwoman ^i^ |
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LOLOLOL.... Good one!!!
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A very nice post, SpiritLady  .Didn't you know that computers have been designed to make you buy more computers ??   Have a wonderful week ahead.   "To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle" - Zarathustra
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2/5/2012 5:37 pm |
spirit..I don't even own a cell phone, my land line does not have call display or any other perks..it rings, I pick it up and say hello, if a telemarketer..I hang up. I can turn on my TV, know how to run the dvd player and finally figured out the treadmill. I'm OK with the computer..used it in work a hundred years ago, now it does my banking, keeps in contact with family friends and I have some neat games to play if I can't sleep. Nothing is programed..I even adjust night time temps on the thermostat manually. I just think I have evolved as much as I ever will be..just keeping life simple..
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  @ JKHI had to carry a blackberry for work and hated it. I keep tellin my boss it was a waste of money and I really didn't need one. When the recession I finally got rid of it. I have a basic phone, no bells and whistles. My kids text me and I text back but that's about it.Bruja The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. W. R. Inge
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2/6/2012 12:33 am |
Hi Spirit: I don't have a cell phone, can't set the time on my car's clock, never been on a plane, my new digital camera is still sitting in the box after two years, don't know how to send a twEEt, and couldn't follow any instruction book if my life depended on it. HELP!!
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I have no problem with phones, computers, cameras but wow this new microwave convection oven is so soooooo different than the last one...it is busting my chops here...LOL so far I can microwave on high that is all I have figured out ..OH & the clock is set...Maybe I should trade it to my son for my old one back I am sure he could figure it out in a flash...ROFL Some believe in destiny, some believe in fate. I believe that happiness is something we create
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 Good post. You know more than me on electronic gadgets. So, I'm sillier.  Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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2/6/2012 4:14 pm |
I passed on the 'droids and kept my phone basic and simple. I did break down and get myself a Nook color for Christmas, but as for the "apps"...pass. I have to admit I haven't done this much reading since I stopped assigning essays to my students! Just because you have silenced a man does not mean you have changed his mind.
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