Who? What? Where? When? Why? WTF?!?
3:24 PM 9/18/09 · My phone is being obnoxious but that's kinda my fault. It's set to a specific noise anytime I get a text and I've got Twitter set to updates right now. I had to remove @officialTila, least insofar as to turning her update status to off because she seems to be quite recovered from her ordeal and is the hyperkinetic tweeting fiend she used to be again.
I swear I don't know how she does it. Puts out tweets faster than I can type on a keyboard and I'm conidered to be exceptionally fast!
Fast should not be considered the same as accurate. I make typos at damned near light speed!
While I was at the library today there was a really old guy on the terminal next to me. Hard of hearing and apparently fairly new to the internet. He had a care giver with him and I'm guessing the old guy was roundabout his 90's from the look and feel of him. His caregiver was giving him instruction on how to work on the internet, browsers and basic stuff, and the old guy wasn't quite getting it. They were friendly enough but the care giver was clearly strained...
...didn't help much that te old lady on my opposite side was extremely noise sensitive and actually got up to complain to them that maybe they should goto a public senior center where the nopise they were making might be more tolerable. Care giver pointed out they had as much right to be here, the library, as anyone else and she should be more considerate.
Frankly, I agreed with them. Well, him...old guy was oblvious to her. She was a pain besides! I apparently type to loud for her, cracking my knuckles earned me the evil eye, and she seemed to be having a problem everytime I shifted position because my chair made barely perceptible squeaks.
Only other real issue I had was the guy that had been sitting where the old guy was prior to their arrival. Not going into that again, pop over to
Beyond·Wrong and check the posts I made on September 18th.
Before I left I tried to offer a little sage advice. Had done so while still on the computer, and the care giver seemed to appreciate it, because I couldn't help but overhear them even though I wasn't bothered by it. By that point an older lady, who seemed to know the old guy, had taken over as the care giver had wanderd off. My advice was to use the moust less, because that's what he was having the most issue with. Kept getting his left click mixed with the right, negotiating around a page that was more than just screen size was an issue, and there were a number of things all easily tracked back to the mouse...
...I pointed out skimming down was easy if you just clicked the "page down" key. The old guy looked like it had popped up as though by a miracle. The older lady gave me a dirty look and told me to get lost.
Can't do something nice for anyone anymore.
Because the library I'm used to using has shut down for an overhaul, I've been going to the one off University Ave for the last month or so. On the way home I was planning to pop into Quizno's for lunch but that was impossible because the line was literally around the block; bunch of girl's wearing Wisconsin soccer jerseys. So, hopped the bus and went to good ol' California Ave...
...and was stunned to see no trees!
They cut all the fucking trees down!
On a particularly hot day the lack of shady spots was very disheartening. Not to mention the lack of all that beautiful greenery. Ran into my Sister and de Guy while there, happy accident, and sadly they didn't have the niece with them but they did have some info. The city was working on some sweeping thing to widen the sidewalks.
Fuckers.
Okay, I'm kinda xposting this. Parts to
Santa·Clara·CA and others to
Twits·by·Choice, with a bit more extension for each cuz there's other stuff I wanna go off about.
I swear I don't know how she does it. Puts out tweets faster than I can type on a keyboard and I'm conidered to be exceptionally fast!
Fast should not be considered the same as accurate. I make typos at damned near light speed!
While I was at the library today there was a really old guy on the terminal next to me. Hard of hearing and apparently fairly new to the internet. He had a care giver with him and I'm guessing the old guy was roundabout his 90's from the look and feel of him. His caregiver was giving him instruction on how to work on the internet, browsers and basic stuff, and the old guy wasn't quite getting it. They were friendly enough but the care giver was clearly strained...
...didn't help much that te old lady on my opposite side was extremely noise sensitive and actually got up to complain to them that maybe they should goto a public senior center where the nopise they were making might be more tolerable. Care giver pointed out they had as much right to be here, the library, as anyone else and she should be more considerate.
Frankly, I agreed with them. Well, him...old guy was oblvious to her. She was a pain besides! I apparently type to loud for her, cracking my knuckles earned me the evil eye, and she seemed to be having a problem everytime I shifted position because my chair made barely perceptible squeaks.
Only other real issue I had was the guy that had been sitting where the old guy was prior to their arrival. Not going into that again, pop over to
Beyond·Wrong and check the posts I made on September 18th.
Before I left I tried to offer a little sage advice. Had done so while still on the computer, and the care giver seemed to appreciate it, because I couldn't help but overhear them even though I wasn't bothered by it. By that point an older lady, who seemed to know the old guy, had taken over as the care giver had wanderd off. My advice was to use the moust less, because that's what he was having the most issue with. Kept getting his left click mixed with the right, negotiating around a page that was more than just screen size was an issue, and there were a number of things all easily tracked back to the mouse...
...I pointed out skimming down was easy if you just clicked the "page down" key. The old guy looked like it had popped up as though by a miracle. The older lady gave me a dirty look and told me to get lost.
Can't do something nice for anyone anymore.
Because the library I'm used to using has shut down for an overhaul, I've been going to the one off University Ave for the last month or so. On the way home I was planning to pop into Quizno's for lunch but that was impossible because the line was literally around the block; bunch of girl's wearing Wisconsin soccer jerseys. So, hopped the bus and went to good ol' California Ave...
...and was stunned to see no trees!
They cut all the fucking trees down!
On a particularly hot day the lack of shady spots was very disheartening. Not to mention the lack of all that beautiful greenery. Ran into my Sister and de Guy while there, happy accident, and sadly they didn't have the niece with them but they did have some info. The city was working on some sweeping thing to widen the sidewalks.
Fuckers.
Okay, I'm kinda xposting this. Parts to
Santa·Clara·CA and others to
Twits·by·Choice, with a bit more extension for each cuz there's other stuff I wanna go off about.