THIRTY DAY CHALLENGE--A PHOTO A DAY--day twenty eight

A herky-jerky Gif of a flag in the wind. 

 Still  lots to learn about making gifs.

FINALLY GOING PORTABLE

Seven short years ago my Dear Hubby gave me a brand new Dell Computer for Christmas.  DUDE!

It was a superb gift, a useful tool and a wonderful time waster.  Still, computer years are shorter than dog years.  Since 2007 I’ve upgraded from a brick mobile phone to a smart phone with screen which often makes me really feel not smart. 

So when Big Bad Dell started going all blue screen and then fading to black and telling  me to F-Key Off, I finally gave up and brought home Snazzy Sam.

I do a lot of photo editing and sometimes work in Adobe Illustrator which calls for tight click-and-drag functions so I decided against a tablet and got a laptop with a keyboard.

I like how techies give their computer parts video game names—like— a Terabyte of Ram.

What I visualize.

--and a Laser Mouse.

What I visualize.

My Adobe Creative Suite software is supposed to be the same stuff they used to make the movie, Avitar.  I use it to whiten teeth, remove wrinkles and add silly quotes to photos I find on the web. 

My new laptop could probably design the next space station or hack into a Swiss Bank, but I’ll just write blogs, check out Facebook and laugh at people caught on video doing incredibly dorky things.

It may take me seven more years to adjust to this flat keyboard and the mouse pad, although Sam also has a touch screen so I can poke it and prod it around when I can’t figure out why the mouse is weirding out (I was holding it backwards).

I’m also adjusting to a computer smaller than a Samsonite suitcase which isn’t tied to a wall with more wires than a Christmas tree.

It’s strange how we casually accept the magic and wonders of technology and, before we even learn how to use it properly, we’re complaining about how it isn’t as fast or as clever as we think it should be.

Louis C.K. on Youtube--Everything Is Amazing and Nobody's Happy