The Computer vs The Senior

(Sorry this is so small...couldn't enlarge it anymore. It reads, "My defination of "computer chip" is what's left after I sledge-hammer the computer").

THE COMPUTER VS THE SENIOR

Happy Birthday, Alexander Graham Bell

So many seniors are afraid to have a computer and use it. A lot of this may be due to the fact that most think it is complicated. It WAS complicated back in the 1950's. A computer took up a whole city block and the average person wouldn't have begun to know how to use it. No one actually thought they would ever purchase a computer. I remember telling my grandmother (who by the way couldn't figure out how to use my stove and turn on the new fangled TV) that in my life time almost everyone would have a computer and in many houses, one for each family member.

Many seniors are too set in their ways to begin to learn the various commands, the process, how to type, etc. at their age. I will admit, one does have to learn a new language in order to survive the new computer age.

Computer dictionary

Application: paper work submitted for employment

Back up: something that happened to your commode or what a cat did when it saw a dog

Compress: something you did to the garbage, not something you did to a file

Computer: something on TV from a science fiction show

Cursor: someone who used profanity

Cut: something you did with a knife

Hard drive: a long trip on the road

Keyboard: what you played on a piano

Log on: adding wood to the fire

Memory: somthing you stored in your mind

Mouse pad: where a mouse lived

Paste: what you do with glue

Program: a TV show

RAM: cousin of a goat
Virus: the flu

Web: a spider's home

Window: something you hated to clean

And if you'd unzipped anything in public, you'd be in jail for a while

Some may even say , "I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper and the memory in my head. As for me, my computer is a good friend. Actually I would be lost without it. And I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash. So using this logic, a computer is safer than flying or driving in a car.

Answer to 3/2's trivia question: What handsome actor is better known as Issur Danielovitch? Kirk Douglas

Today's trivia question: Ed Peterson invented/created something that has helped McDonalds soar in profits.

Thought for the Day: I didn't lose my mind, I sold it on ebay.