So Very 21st Century....
OK, I admit that from a technology point of view, I am probably more of an 18th or 19th Century kind of guy.
But, there is hope for me.
This picture, for example, was snapped with my small digital camera. Very modern.
I was touring the
Rembrandt House in Amsterdam.
Notice his trademark
"Triangle" lighting effect on the right cheek.
I'm pretty sure photography was prohibited in the museum.
Yikes. Gutsy.
But the other night I really saw first hand just how advanced high tech has become without me keeping pace.
A small group had gathered for a going away celebration.
A few drinks. Some appetizers and an entree or two.
One couple had to leave and dropped some money on the table as they said goodbye.
Later, when the bill came, it appeared they had misjudged how much they owed. Woefully short. I probably would have kept a copy of the bill and discussed it later.
Nope. An
iPhone (?) took a close-up picture and a
tweet-pic (?) was sent to the mobile phone of the couple who had left half an hour ago.
They sent a
text (?) back and apologized.
End of problem.
Life is more simple now.
[Click on the pictures for more detail. Actually, I was born in the last century! Thanks.]
Labels: Crackberry, Droid, e-mail, iphone, LG Touch, Rembrandt, texting, Tweet-Pic
Hi technology..howyah doin'?
Tonight was tedious. Really, really a throw back to about ....12-14 years ago.
I had to send some information (about 8 pages) to a company and they asked me to
"Fax it." I said "Y
ou're kidding right? Can't I just e-mail it?" They laughed and said
"Don't I wish."I did find the way to make my computer fax something but could not seem to gather all the pages and send them as a batch. So I did a cover sheet for each page and listened as my high speed computer shifted down, almost grinding and groaning into a low, low rumbling gear and s-l-o-w-l-y, s-l-o-w-l-y cranked out the cover sheet and page 1 of 8, then cover sheet and page 2 of 8, etc. It took forever.
Finally I got back to making a rapid copy of a friend's CD to add to my blues collection and scanned the cover and back sheet and my speedy printer spit out perfect color copies on shiny photo paper which I trimmed and inserted in the jewel box. Good as the original!
This picture shows me discovering
High Tech back in the 50s when a Bishop England high school buddy and I dropped in to the old WCSC TV5 on East Bay Street and we wandered over to the weather map. Wow. Look at all the weatherman's secrets.
I picked up Charlie Hall's spiffy hands-free microphone, slipped my head through the loop and picked up the wax chalk to mark what the highs and lows were going to be in Wyoming, way up there, up close to the Montana border. It just felt natural.
They've lost that personal touch..the weather person was writing backwards! Mr. Hall was more talented than I ever imagined. No wonder he lasted so long on the air in Charleston.(Actually, since this was black and white broadcasting, the "secret" was writing all the numbers and information on the weather map in advance in a color that did not show. Then he merely traced the letters on the back of the plexiglass map as he spoke into the camera. Shhh...keep that to yourself.
About that time a WCSC employee stopped and asked what we were doing and we mumbled "nothing" and quickly headed for the studio's exit.
Labels: Charlie Hall, e-mail, Faxing, scanning photos, WCSC, weatherman secrets
OK, I admit that from a technology point of view, I am probably more of an 18th or 19th Century kind of guy.
But the other night I really saw first hand just how advanced high tech has become without me keeping pace.
