Archive for the 'technology' Category

January 31, 2009 | Filed under: wedding bells, technology, misadventures

I’m always eyeballing folks’ Relationship Status on Facebook. Always checking out those little red hearts. It always seems like such a personal thing to be sending to a public feed. Getting ‘In A Relationship’, becoming ‘Engaged’, suddenly ‘No Longer In A Relationship’…and then there’s room for comments; I never know what to say. Congratulations! Oh, I’m really sorry. WTF?

I never worried about this myself because Brian never had a Facebook account. Under pressure from his friends at work, he asked me to help him out (translate: “do it for him”). We both thought this would be a fun Saturday afternoon activity. What is was, in fact, was a pain in the patootie.

Turns out he already had an account under a false name that he’d forgotten about but it was tied to his primary email address so we couldn’t change his name (John Sinclair of Utica, NY…yeah. I don’t know what that’s about). Then we tried creating a secondary email address under a moniker he’s always been known by but it turns out he had already created THAT address, too, and did not remember the password nor THAT email’s secondary email address to retrieve it.

Two email accounts later we set about getting Facebook Engaged.

This took over an hour because we have one computer to work from and had to sign in and out of our respective Gmail and FB accounts repeatedly.

NOW we’re a “real couple”!

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: travel, technology, misadventures

Life’s funny. I responded to an email from Nokia about testing a music phone (forget that I’m not sure whether I would use a music phone, who says no to free use of a gadget? I love gadgets!) and got the phone promptly enough, but unfortunately for this little AT&T customer the phone was locked to T-Mobile. I sent a request for a code or a SIM card and got an invitation to enjoy some cell phone video fun in Los Angeles…

…that’s where you come in…

January 4, 2008 | Filed under: technology, misadventures

After watching the Guitar Hero wunderkind, BigB and I were inspired to get back into the swing of gaming. It had only been, what, 20 years? I’m exaggerating, of course. The last system I owned was a Sega Genesis and man, I could kick some serious Mortal Kombat II butt. I could rip out hearts and deal out fatalities (and Babalities!) with the best of them. Sometimes I’d disconnect the Genesis and plug in the NES. Mario and Luigi were my very own brothers, and we would sail into the clouds, collect coins, bounce those damned turtles around and save the girl on a nightly basis. That was high-tech stuff!

Adventure? Well, that was high-tech in its day, too. Somehow.

I have no idea how I EVER got through that game. All I know is that now I can’t. It’s totally embarrassing. My only consolation is that BigB can’t break his way out of Breakout’s first layer of bricks to save his life.

These games aren’t even in a console. They’re stuffed into old-skool joysticks that plug directly into the projector. Sweet hotness.

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: NaVloPloMo 2007, technology

Some people find the Sanyo Xacti cameras very intuitive and easy to figure out.

Some don’t.

July 2, 2007 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, technology

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The BCH (Big City Hospital) where I work is a mixed bag in terms of technological advancement: way ahead of the times in some respects and way behind in others.

Oh, who am I kidding…we’re behind on everything. Way behind. Laughably behind.

Seriously, I work for morons.