Category Archives: Technology

Verizon’s Newbie Android Class Fail

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Lynn

Last night Suzy and I went to Verizon to take a “class” entitled “Beginning Android”. We were almost the youngest people there — and I’m seventy — I’ve arrived at the age where I want to tell people how old … Continue reading →

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Uncircling, Unfriending, and Unfollowing

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Lynn

Though I don’t maintain an ironclad bullet list of rules about who I follow in my social networks, certain annoyances move me to uncircle, unfriend, or unfollow persons posthaste. (All three italicized words are social networking neologisms.) Give me full … Continue reading →

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About Legacy Posts

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Lynn

As of July 25, 2011, I have migrated over 130 articles from my Neologistics blog, where since August 2005 I have posted many unsorted articles, including items unrelated to editing, writing, or literature. The articles copied from the old site … Continue reading →

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House — Tracy Kidder

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Lynn

This morning I finished reading House, by literary non-fiction author Tracy Kidder, still most famous for his Pulitzer Prize winning book The Soul of a New Machine, written a couple of years before House. The book was published in 1985. … Continue reading →

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Subtle Is the Lord — A Reflection

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Lynn

Cover via Amazon Albert Einstein is such an iconic personage that Time magazine named him Person of the Century in 2000. Despite this, few people can explain what it was this singularly independent, rumpled man did to earn the world’s … Continue reading →

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On TV

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Lynn

We often hear people say dismissively: “Yeah, most of what’s on TV these days is junk, not worth watching.” The point-of-view seems to imply that the ones saying it have actually watched “most of what’s on TV these days’” so … Continue reading →

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Newbie Is as Newbie Does

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Lynn

No one rises to an opportunity to make fun of newbies more quickly than someone, usually young and male, who was himself a newbie just last week and now knows everything. These people like to be alert to opportunities to … Continue reading →

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The Rudest Devices

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Lynn

On July 13th, I became the owner of my first cell phone. My resistance to having one in the past was not entirely for financial reasons, nor because I suffer from high-tech phobias, nor because I’m an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Morons Need Jobs Too!

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Lynn

To each person his own job is or becomes important. Morons need jobs, too. Give them their space; let them do their work. When the average joe looks for a job, his primary objective is usually to find an occupation … Continue reading →

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Why I Hate News Groups

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Lynn

In earlier days of the Internet, I used to read Usenet news groups, now more commonly known simply as news groups. Today I will read some specific news group no more often on average than once in several months because … Continue reading →

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