Oct 13 2007
A Picture to Warm Your Heart
I guess I never thought about what college lecture halls would like look in these days of ubiquitous laptops. What’s really gratifying is to see the number of glowing Apple logos in this room. (click the photo to see the original on Flickr, then click “All Sizes” above the photo to see a bigger one.)
I guess the days of “Hey! Can I borrow your notes?” are gone.
My high school now has laptops included in tuition. Not surprising. I was talking to the twins’ preschool teacher about how a lot of kids can’t read an analog clock these days, and penmanship falls off a lot quicker. Oh well. Not life shaping skills, I guess.
Jim
I’ve heard about the analog clock thing, and the kids basically say they don’t care because they can get the time off their cell phones. Which is stupid, because some day they may actually want to look like a grownup with a real watch.
I don’t think the days of ‘can I borrow your notes’ are gone at all. If anything, you’d have more of that going on, since it’d be so easy to share your note files. A lot easier than trusting someone with your notebook.
I’m sure now it is “Hay, can you send me your notes?”
Can you send data directly from lap top to lap top, like Jay and I can with our PDA’s? If not, they probably just e-mail them.
When my kids want to know what time it is, they ask us. I tell them to look at a clock, and they go searching for a digital clock, even though there is an analog clock right in front of them. Makes me crazy. I’ve been tempted to go around the house and cover up all the digital clocks…on the microwave, stove, VCR…pretty much anything electronic.
At my office we’re constantly sending files to each other via iChat, I’m sure that’s how the kids do it.
At work we send messages by writing with our finger in the dust on the other guy’s car. Clever things like, “fag”… that sort of thing. I know it’s analog but it’s the way we roll.
JOE!! LOL LOL LOL
I can “visualize” time better on the analog clocks. Its a sensory thing.