February 13, 2006

• Weekly Photo Challenge “Computers”

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Happy Valentines Day Xanga

  
  

  

  
  

  The
  Weekly Photo Challenge 
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  subject comes fromThe2ndShifter  … Computers …

  
  

  I can’t do this challenge without stating a viewpoint.  To me, Computers are a blessing and a curse.  I feel so strongly about either viewpoint I can and do get upset talking about it.  Without expanding on the subject too much,

  
  

  the blessings =
  great communication system for family and friends to keep in touch. 

  
  

  the curse =
  great communication system for terrorists and crooks to keep in touch.

  
  

   

  
  

  I took some new photos for this challenge.  As I was in a store that sells them I didn’t get pushy.  I don’t think stores care a lot for people taking photos inside.  I didn’t ask, I didn’t try to be noticeable, I just took the  photos.  One friend commented that with cell phones that take photos it is very easy to do and I imagine that is the real truth of it.  I don’t have a cell phone except for a very old one so my picture taking is very obvious unless I take pains to hide the fact.

  
  

  Most of our software buying is done at one place in particular we like pretty well.  Named Micro Center, it’s big and carries about anything you might want.  As you can see below, it carries more than computer related things. 

  
  

  

  
  

  These are TV for the little guys.  I thought they were cute, funny and a real waste of your dollars.  I have never been into purchasing private TV’s for children in their rooms.  I think family activities and actual physical activities plus brain stretching done in books are things much better suited for bringing up kids. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Product is wall to wall in the store.  I have purchased computers, printers, scanners, camera’s and software here.  I have been satisfied and dissatisfied.  The dissatisfaction has not been with the store but with manufacturers.  I will never spend another dollar on any HP product and I have paid out some pretty big bucks more than a single time and felt the same way about all of them. CRAP, CRAP, CRAP…

  
  

  

  
  

  Make your purchase big or small paying at the front door with things from all over the store.  The help has always been nice and pretty knowledgeable.

  
  

  

  
  

  This is my spot …

  
  

  The blue thing on top of one computer is wireless connect.  Underneath the towels, upper right, being protected from dust is the arm used for a flight simulator.  I don’t mess with it and when he does I know why I don’t ever want to fly.  Underneath the computers sits an old desk (very heavy we bought at a goodwill for $100.) It’s a monster I would like to replace with a desk better suited to organizing computer paraphernalia.  As you can see, we need it.  The computers pictured are minus at least 3 and maybe 4 others we have had.  I use all of those you see on the desk and try to play with them regularly.  The small black notebook was state of the art in its time, an IBM ThinkPad.  It contains 3 whole gigs of space and is bigger in storage than our first state of the art desktop we purchased from Sears (a full gig of space, very overpriced I might add) that had a ton of disks etc with all kinds of things you would access to learn from or play in.  It ran Windows 93 and I hated it. 

  
  

  Our very first computer was purchased from Radio Shack as a gift for him and I didn’t touch it or the second one, purchased second hand.  It was a hand built Heath Kit. 

  
  

  I began my learning on the Win 93 computer and we graduated to another pretty quick when I began feeling like I might be able to learn how to use the darn things, a Windows 98 operating system.  It was decent, much nicer than Win 93 in it’s overall operating system planning and eventually we upgraded to Win 98 second edition.  Now, we run Win 98 second edition in the old laptop, and Windows XP Pro in all the others.  The larger Notebook and the larger Desktop are Dells and I love them.  The older desktop to the left is a cheapy and it came from Micro Center.  We have babied it along surgically fixing it several times.  Good or bad, we have I think, progressed .

  
  

  Have a super week and keep on taking those photos.

  
  

  

  
  

   

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