The power of technology is amazing, but even more amazing are the brains that dream up ways to harness technology for the good of mankind. Every single day you can find news of such advancement, but some days the news is such that it affects us all. Such is the case with the news out [...]
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A former dinosaur…
Today I took the plunge that I have long been avoiding - I switched from my regular old run-of-the-mill cellphone to a smartphone. I avoided this transition because I was not sure if I possessed the brain power, time, and energy to pull it off gracefully. Alas, I began to notice that everyone else and [...]
Civility and kindness…are they slipping away from us as a society?
I was visiting Sarah and my new grandbaby Lennon on Wednesday when I first caught the story on television about the bullied bus monitor video that had gone viral on the Internet. The entertainment show that I caught it on only showed a snippet of the video, but a snippet was enough. It was, in [...]
Dot calm…
The last time we visited the beach house was during spring break 2009. Upon our return, I went straight into flood fight efforts. The spring breaks following 2009 kept me close to home based on flood forecasts. But this year with the optimistic flood forecast, the coast looked clear for another family California beach vacation; hence, we are back [...]
Crashed computers and Grandma Lil – perhaps it is half true.
My NDSU laptop froze up unceremoniously yesterday. When I had to shut it off and restart it, I was a bit put-out and irritated. Then I learned - after about a dozen attempts to restart it that ended in what my friend calls the "blue screen of death" - that my computer would not be restarting for me at [...]
Who needs a smart phone when you have a psychic one?
I am struggling with a transition. For a couple of years now I have had a flip phone with a touch screen that is in a word - cute. Well, perhaps I should say aesthetically pleasing as "cute" should perhaps be reserved as a descriptor for chubby-cheeked babies and puppies. My aesthetically pleasing phone, even with [...]
Incommunicado!
It has been a harrowing two days. It all began on Friday morning when my computer started making a loud, continuous buzzing noise. For a moment there my life flashed before my eyes (my life's work that is) and I immediately started mumbling - "arrgh- I knew I should have backed up my data this past month." I must [...]
THE NEW FORTY 