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...
Thanks for Reno, who if he had arms, would hug everyone. 
Looks painful! LOL but doggie hugs are wonderful. :o)
ReplyDeleteSilly Reno... he thinks he's a puppy still, I'm sure of it. My sister had a big boy like that who thought he was still little... an Old English Sheepdog. When he climbed on my lap, you could only see my legs, the rest was covered in dog. Love those kind of silly dogs....
ReplyDeleteI've had a relative with two big pit bulls and when they walked over my lap it really hurt. She did finally get rid of them when one attacked the other over a bone. Reno looks like a real lovey dovey dog.
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