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Happy Holidays

Let’s start with the relevant icons to explain:

So… we have the new Prius. And it has all the trimmings. Including the ones we couldn’t get when we first went shopping for one 3 years ago. Satnav (Atmos can not be disabled!), Bluetooth, 5 disc CD.. and a cassette deck.

Today I purchased a cassette adaptor. I plugged it into my iPhone and fired up the Doctor Who theme for aiden_freeman

Playing on the car’s really nice sound system…Aiden was giddy. He loves the theme.

Afterwards as usual he babbled a bit at said he requisite, “Doc-Doc?” Which is very good and we encourage him.

Then he blew our minds. After babbling from the back seat we hear him go:

Ooooh Weeee Ooooh.

It took the better part of 5 minutes for us to recover ourselves. The toddler grinning ear to ear at his accomplishment.

This is my boy and I AM a PROUD father.

Usual drill:

Aiden maaaaayyy go down from 7-8ish… So we have to be wary of that.

Friday’s Agenda

Doctor Who (Series 4) “The Unicorn and the Wasp” (Last week’s; for the most part local fans were at Ave Q or in Greece)
Doctor Who (Season 26) “Survival” Part 2 (postponed from last week)
Doctor Who (Season 15) “Invasion of Time” Parts 5 & 6 (Probably while Aiden is being put to bed)
Doctor Who (Season 4) “Silence in the Library” (We may not get to this one as it’s 1 of 2)

We’ll probably be doing this more regularly.

Consider getting into fan mode for these things 😉 (Dress up, wear buttons…SCARF!)

If you’re not one of our regulars (and I know who that is) drop me a comment so I know who to expect.

Potluck food, snacks, drinks appreciated.

Crash space as avail by request

Usual drill:

Aiden maaaaayyy go down from 7-8ish… So we have to be wary of that.

Tonight’s Agenda
Doctor Who (Series 4) “The Doctor’s *@&#&!” (Blanked to avoid spoiler)
Doctor Who (Season 26) “Survival” Part 2
Doctor Who (Season 15) “Invasion of Time” Parts 5 & 6 (Probably while Aiden is being put to bed)
And some Vids

We’ll probably be doing this more regularly.

Consider getting into fan mode for these things 😉 (Dress up, wear buttons…SCARF!)

If you’re not one of our regulars (and I know who that is) drop me a comment so I know who to expect.

Potluck food, snacks, drinks appreciated.

Crash space as avail by request

An anecdote

This morning on the way to the bus I wanted to check something on the ‘net. I reached into my pocket at pulled out a USB Sprint Networking device for my laptop.

The device sits in the palm of my hand. It’s about 2 inches long and maybe 1/2 inch for the other two dimensions.

I pulled it out and stared at it.

I thought about the first typewriter I ever touched in my father’s office. It was one of the new electric typewriters with a metal ball that would pop up and rotate to the position that the key imprint was on.

I thought about my father’s answering machine. An industrial looking, metal box a little larger than a tivo with one of those tiny, red, press buttons on it. One of those buttons that left a divot in your finger because you had to hold it in to record a message. This was the only thing visible on the box.

Then I thought about my first computer and how I would use a 300 baud modem to call a BBS to exchange text information. The only graphics back then were ascii. For the record, Standard DSL is 1.5 Mbps, about 5 times as much data. Ethernet talks about Gigabit and 10 gigabit. which is 1000 and 10000 times as much as DSL.

I reflected for a moment on how unbelievable the technology was in the palm of my hand.

As a kid, all I really could do was talk about my favourite TV show. (At the time in the late 70’s it was an old show called “Doctor Who”). Some people would write their own fiction based on the TV Shows. (I remember beta reading some stories by a woman I used to chat with named Diane Duane)

As I talked about this nostalgic memory with shimmeringjemmy she looked at me and said, “And now you can do it all again. See how far technology has come :)”

Kind of puts it all in perspective