To point out the obvious, I'm going to try to remember to go with a larger font. That way I can blog without having to stand up and go search for the glasses. While they do make reading easier, I don't need them for anything else. I figure I'm not the only one in this "welcome to the mid-40's" predicament, and I hope a large font doesn't bother those of you with younger eyes!
stock photo of old computer monitor When I was 10 or 11, I remember sitting next to my dad in our living room and reading computer code to him as he entered it into an Apple computer. We would finish the exercise and he would hit enter (or was it "run"?) and wait expectantly for the green type to appear on the screen. If we were lucky, the whole conversation would occur. Most often, there would be an error either in my dictation of the code, or in the typing of the code. We would then go painstakingly back through the lines, character by character, to find and correct the error. After what seemed like hours (and might have been), we would succeed and the computer would finally run the entire program. It was magical! My dad designed and built an earth-sheltered, passive solar home decades before solar panels were commonplace. He also was on a 9-month waiting list for a Prius, when hybrids were not seen on every street. While my dad is definitely on the cutting edge of technol...
I wish my textbooks did this!
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