technology

Case Study 56, Subject Number 9

Tagged:  •    •  

Case Study: Crash and make unavailable to subjects their personal computer. Test reactions and alternate habits.

Subject Number 9: Reaction: Reacted calmly. No sign of panic or anger. Alternate habits: went to Pilates class, did food shopping, read, practiced piano, then subject did something not perceived as previous habit. Subject cleaned.

Christmas Wish List

Tagged:  •  
Oh, how I'd love to have one of these babies. You guys need to check this out. Easy on the eyes. Hundreds of books without having to pack a dozen because you never know what mood you'll be in.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Tagged:  •  
Remember that diatribe I wrote last Friday? Well, the Napoleon Dynamite gods decided to exact their revenge.
After a lovely weekend of camping, where the only chirping was that of birds rather than phones, where blinking was at the awe and majesty of creation and the Creator God, not computer screens. It was beautiful.
Then we came home.
And I needed my Internet.
But I had no Internet. Nor did we have TV.
Verizon equipment had gone kaput.

My Evil

Tagged:
I would love to blame it on my technological frustrations, but it is my evil that caused the problems all the same. A project needed to be finished by today. It required installing a media software package on my computer, editing video clips, and burning the finished product on DVD. Every one of the steps went wrong, Murphy’s Law wrong. I won’t go into the messy details. It would only serve to raise my blood pressure and bore you. Let’s just say it was a late night.
Syndicate content