Well, dear readers, do you know what is interesting? Well, I will tell you what is interesting because why should I be the only one to know what it interesting? What is interesting is that despite the somewhat low posting rate on the weekend, we had more traffic here at haineshisway.com than we normally do on the weekend. Isn’t that interesting? Isn’t that just too too? So, even though there weren’t even our usual number of weekend posts, there were a lot of people hanging out. If, for some reason, a dear reader or two missed the weekend notes, do catch up by simply using the handy-dandy Unseemly Archive Button, because much information was imparted, some of it even could be considered interesting.
Do you know what else is interesting? As I sit here and type away I think back ten years ago, and it is astonishing to me that back then it would have been inconceivable that I would be sitting here like so much fish, typing a daily blog or log or journal or diary, and typing said blog or log or journal or diary on a laptop computer. Ten years ago, I could barely turn on a computer. Oh, I caressed a computer, I fondled a computer, I cavorted with a computer, I laid some heavy hugs on a computer but it was all for naught because I simply could not turn it on. And I was cute as a button back then. Are buttons really all that cute? The saying is “cute as a button” but I just went and looked at a fershluganah button and not only is it not cute it is actually quite stupid-looking. In any case, there I was, ten years ago, and how could I have imagined that here I’d sit, typing merrily away in a Word document, which I would then insert into an Internet form that would then post to a website designed by Mr. Mark Bakalor? And can you even remember what computers looked like back then? And how the Internet was a thing not known by one and all and also all and one? Isn’t that interesting? Isn’t that just too too?
I remember the time I wrote my first script via computer – it was so complicated, with macros for this and macros for that – I had three pages of notes pinned nearby that told me how to do everything – to type, to save, to format, etc. Now, it’s just so easy, everything has been made so that even fools such as I can do them. Oh, there are still things that baffle me, but I can tell you here and now and also now and here, that I never thought I’d see a day where I could zoom around the Internet, post on newsgroups, read and write e-mail, IM people, write a novel on a computer, and meet so many lovely new people. Isn’t that interesting? Isn’t that just too too?
I never thought I would see the day when I would say “let’s all click on the Unseemly Button below” once a day, like a Once-a-Day Multiple Vitamin. And yet, I’ve been saying it for over 250 days in a row. In fact, I’m going to say it again right here and now and also right now and here – let’s all click on the Unseemly Button below.
How far we’ve come. We’ve come to a whole new page and just by clicking on an Unseemly Button. Who, ten years ago, would have thought they’d be doing that? Not me, I can tell you. Ten years ago would you have thought you could watch a movie on a computer? Ten years ago would you have thought you could listen to a CD on a computer, let alone burn a CD on a computer? Or play five thousand games of Free Cell? Isn’t that interesting? Isn’t that just too too?
And yet, for all this amazing technology, we can still slice open an orange and be amazed at the sensation and taste when we bite into it. I don’t really like oranges, so the sensation and taste for me is yechhhy. But still, there it is – an orange, simple yet not. Where are these notes going today? Suddenly we’re into New Age and how simple fruits are more amazing than all our technology. I don’t even know what the hell I’m talking about, frankly or even Peterly. I suppose I’m trying to say that even though all this technology is truly awe-inspiring, so are the simplest things. That is just so treacly, isn’t it? What am I, Kathryn Kuhlman all of a sudden? “I believa in miraclesa”. In any case, it’s all very interesting and it most certainly is all very too too.
Ten years ago, I remember somebody saying to me “the information highway” as regards the Internet, and I looked at that person askance, dear readers. I poo-pood the notion. Or is that “pooh-poohed”? Information highway, I scoffed. Information highway, I said with scorn and ridicule. Well, I had to eat my hat, didn’t I dear readers? However, I’m not sure all of this is a good thing, especially for young people, for whom things come a little too easily with all this technology. They tend to take all this for granted and they tend to get lost in it and they tend to overlook the simple pleasures and the simple glories that abound. They tend to grow up too fast with all this information at their fingertips. My goodness and my gracious, I’m beginning to sound like Harry Reasoner. Well, you young people, don’t take things for granted. There is still the beauty of slicing open an orange and looking at it’s disgusting insides and tasting its succulent and yechhhy flavor. Simple little things are sometimes the most pleasurable of all. What am I, leading an EST meeting? These notes are making me nauseous.
Oh, there are so many interesting things. For example, here is an interesting thing: A toenail. Now that is an interesting thing, a toenail is. Ten years ago could I ever have imagined sitting at a laptop computer writing that a toenail is interesting?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go hither and thither and I must slice open a few oranges from my orange tree and I must travel the information highways and byways of life. Today’s topic of discussion: As long as we’re on the subject of computers – when did you get your first computer, how cumbersome was it, and when did you first get on the Internet, and do you have any stories about first learning how to use the computer and then getting on the Internet. Post away my pretties.