My printer is a pain in the neck. I have no problem with my computer - it seems to understand
English quite well, but the stupid printer is driving me crazy. It just seems to forget it's purpose.
After I stop and restart, push buttons, cancel projects and restart them 20 times I am in a terrible
mood, ready to bark or bite at anything that crosses my path.The worst one is in FL so I only use
it when I'm visiting there (my daughter, some friends etc). Apparently it doesn't like the times
when I leave it alone so it chews, spits or refuses to print when I'm there. It is a stubborn. When it does finally decide to work I can never figure out what did the trick. I love computers, but printers are a whole different entity. They have a union and they have blackballed me in FL. The one in CT does not know this and therefore works most of the time without a problem. Except once when I
stayed in FL for 6 months. When I got home the printer didn't recognize me or the computer
that was telling it to print. I did finally get it work, by starting from scratch and reinstalling it.
If they would just talk to me and tell me their problems ie they're lonely, they missed me, the cat
scratched them, or the ink is low I would understand and take steps to remedy the situation, but
all I get is stone cold silence. It's sad to be treated that way. I threaten to take them to the dump
if they don't shape up, but the response is stone cold silence. One of these days they will be
sorry that they didn't meet me half way at least.
Come to think of it my cats are a little aloof when I get home after a few weeks away from them,
but usually only until bedtime when they join me in bed, on my pillows and feet. They have to
get very close to my face or hands and lie right on me until I turn over and they slide a bit.
They get up sometimes, but return later, usually.
Musings of a retired nurse, mother of one and grandmother of 3. Doing some part time work editing papers and writing stories. I Worked 34 years mostly in L&D and newborn special care, taught childbirth education classes, and worked with the VNA and did home fetal monitoring for high risk patients. I feel privileged to have shared such wonderful and private moments with so many families. I do miss the work that I did, but not the stress I experienced so often.
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Showing posts with label musings on technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label musings on technology. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Monday, January 20, 2014
New Kindle
I bought myself a Kindle just before Christmas so I could read from it on the way to FL. We left Christmas day for FL and arrived on the 27th. I really enjoyed the Kindle. I was even able to download some
books through the wifi in a restaurant. It does make reading very pleasant and effortless. It holds your page
and is light and easy to hold . If I had had more money I would have bought the more expensive model with the free 4G for the lifetime of the Kindle. But this one is great once you get a few books on it. I found so many I liked with prices anywhere from 0. 99 to $3 or 4 and up. I love short stories and books about
cats. I was able to find many of them. I bought the paper-white model and love it. The battery is good
for days without recharging and doesn't use battery power when it's closed (as my cell phone does).
I think the other brands such as the Nook etc are about the same. My grandchildren have Nooks
and they love them too. I have a nook app on my laptop and find it nice to use as well. And though
I'm not traveling right now (until next year) I'm still using the Kindle everyday. Another plus is that
I can remove the books that I have read from my device and Amazon will keep it stored on their site
pretty much forever or as long as I'm alive.
I think that using a Kindle or Nook would be a good way to encourage children and teens to read. If
they find it enjoyable, they'll use it more and won't have a lot of books hanging around the house.
Of course my grandchildren still like to go to the library to get books, and I like the atmosphere of the
library to read and pass time. I wonder if the library will ever have a lending library of electronic
books. That would be neat.
According to my significant person my local library does have the set up to lend books for Kindle and Nooks. I'm not quite sure how it works, but I think I'll look it up and find out. In the meantime remember books or gift certificates for books are great gifts for almost everyone. Older folks might like the size
adjustment ability for the screenprint. And I should point out that Amazon is not paying me to promote
the Kindle.
books through the wifi in a restaurant. It does make reading very pleasant and effortless. It holds your page
and is light and easy to hold . If I had had more money I would have bought the more expensive model with the free 4G for the lifetime of the Kindle. But this one is great once you get a few books on it. I found so many I liked with prices anywhere from 0. 99 to $3 or 4 and up. I love short stories and books about
cats. I was able to find many of them. I bought the paper-white model and love it. The battery is good
for days without recharging and doesn't use battery power when it's closed (as my cell phone does).
I think the other brands such as the Nook etc are about the same. My grandchildren have Nooks
and they love them too. I have a nook app on my laptop and find it nice to use as well. And though
I'm not traveling right now (until next year) I'm still using the Kindle everyday. Another plus is that
I can remove the books that I have read from my device and Amazon will keep it stored on their site
pretty much forever or as long as I'm alive.
I think that using a Kindle or Nook would be a good way to encourage children and teens to read. If
they find it enjoyable, they'll use it more and won't have a lot of books hanging around the house.
Of course my grandchildren still like to go to the library to get books, and I like the atmosphere of the
library to read and pass time. I wonder if the library will ever have a lending library of electronic
books. That would be neat.
According to my significant person my local library does have the set up to lend books for Kindle and Nooks. I'm not quite sure how it works, but I think I'll look it up and find out. In the meantime remember books or gift certificates for books are great gifts for almost everyone. Older folks might like the size
adjustment ability for the screenprint. And I should point out that Amazon is not paying me to promote
the Kindle.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Is it madness or vision
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." - Aristotle
The above quote is the topic of tonight's blog. I get some quotes from 2 or 3 other newsletters. This one was sent to me by the folks at Penzu online journal. It's a great site. They offer online journaling for free and with a fee you can upgrade to more features. The fee is quite reasonable $19 a year for unlimited journaling and setting up several journals. For example one might be for health, one for notes to save, one for regular journal entries , one might be stories about your kids or pets, or stories you like to write. They have good security measures so your privacy is protected. You can even email an entry if you like. It's all up to you. I'm not promoting this for any fee, but because I belong and I like it. You can try it for free for as long as you like and eventually try the upgrade or not. I have one journal for letters I write to my mother. She died almost 2 years ago, but as things happen that I wish she were here to see and hear about I write her a letter just as if she were alive. I don't know if one can read letters from the afterlife, but after I write the letter I feel so much better. I ever write when I have a problem. It's almost as though she's listening quietly. But that's how I use Penzu journal; you can use it anyway you like.
But the quote above is what I'm writing about tonight. (I'll repeat it so you don't have to look back.)
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." - Aristotle
Aristotle may have been a brilliant man, but I'm not sure about this quote - although he did say a touch of madness. But there may be a touch of madness in more than half the people in the world (just a guess). Depends on what exactly is a "touch" and what is one's definition of madness. Is it diagnosed mental illness? Or is it just the way people describe anyone who is different, brilliant, distracted by the sights and sounds around them, intense and what all. Of course in the time of Aristotle I'm not sure people really knew what madness was except for the extrememly disoriented individuals. But some madness can be more subtle. I think the idea of madness comes into play when someone is close to a discovery that people believe to be either impossible, or extremely unlikely, or amazing and the mere fact that this someone is working on something that others believe impossible means he has a touch of madness unless he's right and it all works out. Then they sing his praises. But thinking about some of the amazing discoveries like electricity, air travel, submarines, travel to space and the discovery of America and a round world, I can sort of understand why they might have been thought of as slightly off center when working on these discoveries. So maybe he was right not that they were a little crazy, but that they were thought of that way. Thus Mr. Aristotle was partly right. It takes a little madness to imagine some of these things even if they are eventually proven to be possible. After cell phones and the internet, I can't imagine what is next to be discovered that isn't an upgrade of an earlier invention etc. But I hope I live long enough to see it.
The above quote is the topic of tonight's blog. I get some quotes from 2 or 3 other newsletters. This one was sent to me by the folks at Penzu online journal. It's a great site. They offer online journaling for free and with a fee you can upgrade to more features. The fee is quite reasonable $19 a year for unlimited journaling and setting up several journals. For example one might be for health, one for notes to save, one for regular journal entries , one might be stories about your kids or pets, or stories you like to write. They have good security measures so your privacy is protected. You can even email an entry if you like. It's all up to you. I'm not promoting this for any fee, but because I belong and I like it. You can try it for free for as long as you like and eventually try the upgrade or not. I have one journal for letters I write to my mother. She died almost 2 years ago, but as things happen that I wish she were here to see and hear about I write her a letter just as if she were alive. I don't know if one can read letters from the afterlife, but after I write the letter I feel so much better. I ever write when I have a problem. It's almost as though she's listening quietly. But that's how I use Penzu journal; you can use it anyway you like.
But the quote above is what I'm writing about tonight. (I'll repeat it so you don't have to look back.)
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." - Aristotle
Aristotle may have been a brilliant man, but I'm not sure about this quote - although he did say a touch of madness. But there may be a touch of madness in more than half the people in the world (just a guess). Depends on what exactly is a "touch" and what is one's definition of madness. Is it diagnosed mental illness? Or is it just the way people describe anyone who is different, brilliant, distracted by the sights and sounds around them, intense and what all. Of course in the time of Aristotle I'm not sure people really knew what madness was except for the extrememly disoriented individuals. But some madness can be more subtle. I think the idea of madness comes into play when someone is close to a discovery that people believe to be either impossible, or extremely unlikely, or amazing and the mere fact that this someone is working on something that others believe impossible means he has a touch of madness unless he's right and it all works out. Then they sing his praises. But thinking about some of the amazing discoveries like electricity, air travel, submarines, travel to space and the discovery of America and a round world, I can sort of understand why they might have been thought of as slightly off center when working on these discoveries. So maybe he was right not that they were a little crazy, but that they were thought of that way. Thus Mr. Aristotle was partly right. It takes a little madness to imagine some of these things even if they are eventually proven to be possible. After cell phones and the internet, I can't imagine what is next to be discovered that isn't an upgrade of an earlier invention etc. But I hope I live long enough to see it.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Are we better off than our parents
Is life better now than maybe 80 -90 years ago? I'm on the fence about this. The big items of communications, medecine, transportation, education, and new opportunities for work, school, new careers, travel, and communication (I'm sure there are more areas, but I can't think of any more right now) have certainly improved. But with the improvements also came new problems. For example the internet and cell phones have made communication almost instant that's good. Along with them though, has come cyberbullying, internet based scams, and more opportunities for pedophiles to find victims, teens carrying cell phones and using them to spread lies, naked pictures either of themselves or illegally obtained of other teens and spread instantly through the schools. Children committing suicide is certainly related to the previous items. So for almost every positive bit of progress comes the downside. More items related to technological progress are things like pollution, unsafe water, oil spills with inadequate cleanup, drug abuse, poverty, fraud in the financial markets and more seem to also have increased. I won't even get into the progress made in weapons of war except the great weapons have not brought peace.
Then there are population issues. Our population has nearly overgrown the planet. There is a shortage of affordable housing, decent schools, low cost health insurance, and low cost medical care for those without insurance and so much more than I can list here. But for the most part most things are better. It's just that no progress comes without a downside.
Having said all that, I feel blessed to have lived during this time of so many amazing changes and to have experienced many of them first hand. Cell phones have given me a strong sense of security and safety. It allows me to connect with my family especially those far away. The internet has helped me educate myself, allows me to read extensively on almost any subject about which I might be curious, communicate quickly with my extended family, shop and mail gifts easily, find some good deals, buy airline tickets, pay bills and store family, business and personal records and information and do my taxes.
Computer science has given us some amazing movies i.e. Avatar, and even 3D TV. Computer science combined with movie technology is almost magical. So this is part 1, I guess. Tomorrow I have some more about life before the tech advances from my memories and from stories my mother told me. Stay tuned
Then there are population issues. Our population has nearly overgrown the planet. There is a shortage of affordable housing, decent schools, low cost health insurance, and low cost medical care for those without insurance and so much more than I can list here. But for the most part most things are better. It's just that no progress comes without a downside.
Having said all that, I feel blessed to have lived during this time of so many amazing changes and to have experienced many of them first hand. Cell phones have given me a strong sense of security and safety. It allows me to connect with my family especially those far away. The internet has helped me educate myself, allows me to read extensively on almost any subject about which I might be curious, communicate quickly with my extended family, shop and mail gifts easily, find some good deals, buy airline tickets, pay bills and store family, business and personal records and information and do my taxes.
Computer science has given us some amazing movies i.e. Avatar, and even 3D TV. Computer science combined with movie technology is almost magical. So this is part 1, I guess. Tomorrow I have some more about life before the tech advances from my memories and from stories my mother told me. Stay tuned
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