The younger generation

My co-worker set up a virtual PC for me, then sent me an image of it on email.  The virtual lets me experiment with software, then with a flip of a switch restore everything back to what it was.  I wish I had a virtual body.

My youngest grandson, the Mouse, was born with “a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad” in the palm of his hand.  Hence, the nickname. 

His seven-year-old brother can do things in cyberspace that, for me, only happen infrequently in the space between my ears.  My seven-year-old grandson knows his way around digital cameras.  He can snap a picture, then rotate a button that I can barely see to display a gallery of pictures taken since his birth.  I still own an Instamatic camera that takes twenty-four pictures on a single roll. 

On my mobile device (shouldn’t that be a car?), I get confused because the little green handset button to make a call is on the left side.  I can’t answer an incoming call on my cell phone when I’m already talking to someone else.  My thinking is, “If you love me, you’ll call back, and if you need something, I probably could do without the call.”

I feel like I’m living Daniel Stern’s life in City Slickers when he futilely tries to understand how you can watch one television show while taping another.  The only difference is I’m not on horseback.  I finally figured it out.  I turn on the recording downstairs and go upstairs to watch another program.

Remember the day when bridge was something you crossed to get over a river, a cell was a couple of molecules thrown together on your body, and bad was bad.

Apple has an “i” for money with their iPad, iBook, and iPhone.  I thought iRan and iRaq were their new athletic shoe and shelving products.  I believed my cousins, Toni and Beni, were lucky because they have an “i” for color.  

That’s nothing.  My youngest son had no idea who this was.

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