It's a Start

I take my first baby-steps into the world of on-line, in touch, face-to-face, electronic wizardry that is so common today that most would say, "ITS ABOUT TIME!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!?!" I was reminiscing a short while back about my introduction to computers. Indiana Wesleyan (then Marion College) had entered the age of high-tech with a stand-alone computer that had - get this- a floppy drive. And mind you, this was a whopping 800k of blazing removable memory. My computer class had us programming in BASIC language on this wonder of wonders. And why wouldn't it be? If you wanted to use the previous year's method, you could. Punch cards.

Oh how far we've come. And it brings me to my point. Who isn't plugged in to FaceBook or LinkedIn or something of that ilk? (I hope I can mention their names without ending up in the electronic hoosegow.) I have been resistant to partake of the fruits of the "connectivity", partly because you never know who's looking and who might sneak in the back door. (Computers have back doors too, you know. I don't really know where the back door is, and if I found it, I'm not sure I'd know how to lock it.) Maybe that's why the fear to get "in" with everyone else.

There are some funny play on words, like "safe fax" and "safe text" that have made their way across the the electronic mass-media. That's because someone got themselves in trouble using the new technology indiscriminately. Trying really hard not to do that. I have slid into the world of texting (unlimited texting is the plan required for serious business - thanks, Verizon). But I resist the landslide of FaceBook. Maybe with time, and after the world doesn't collapse as a result of this blog-thing, I'll look into it.

I'm sure I'll have more serious and life-changing thoughts later. But here's a quote you can make yourself feel better with right now:

"We are all stupid - just in different areas." (Mark Twain) You could infer from that, that we are also all SMART, just in different areas. I wish it were true . . . . . .