My dad, who has a degree in education and works as a career counselor at a local college, will not properly use bold, italics, or underlining when writing email messages. Instead, he INSISTS on CAPITALIZING certain words for EMPHASIS throughout his WHOLE MESSAGE.
Idiotech
Parents, teachers, bosses, and the general old people population are terrible with technology.
It was a movie, not an article.
We have a flatscreen TV, but my mother deeply distrusts the high-definition channels on FiOS, even though they're the exact same program, only in better definition. She is convinced that the "TV people" subtly change the show she's watching when they "make it bigger", and send "brainwave signals" to advertise products. She bases this on a supposedly factual article she read online; when she showed me the web adress (which she had written down "for safekeeping") I found that it was IMDb, and the "article" was the summary of the movie The Signal. She also refuses to let me show her the Info button (as stated by someone else in this column) because she thinks "they change that too". She prefers to flip up a channel and then very quickly flip back in order to read about the show; since the description box dissapears after a few seconds, she will have to repeat this several times before she reads the entire thing. Apparently she doesn't realize that it's the exact same information. She says her way "makes it safer".
Cell phone battery vs power grid
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My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
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Well that's one way to do it...
My girlfriend was creating a report and created a different word document for each section. When she realized that she needed to include page numbers, instead of combining them into one document she proceeded to print out 96 pages with only the page numbers on them. Then, insert the pages back into the printer and print each document on top of them.
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"Did you call me?"
I work at a furniture store, and sometimes I'm asked to ride shotgun on one of the delivery trucks. The driver is in his 50's and a bit eccentric. Each truck has a flip-open cell phone to communicate with the store, and this driver is often worried he's missed a call. But instead of looking for the little envelope icon to indicate a missed message, he insists on opening the... Read More »
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Hot Spot
My dad has had an iPhone for quite some time now. No matter how many times that I tell him otherwise, he thinks he can only use safari on it if he turns his personal hotspot on. He also thinks that turning it on will somehow boost his signal. He even has my stepmom log into his hotspot to use the Internet even though she too has an iPhone and hey have a shared data plan.
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Write it down.
So I'm teaching my mom how to use email on her computer. So she's sitting in the desk chair and I'm standing over her shoulder. I say, "Ok, so turn on the computer". She goes, "Hold on." She then stands up, goes to get pencil and paper and proceeds to write down "Turn computer on". I say, "You did not just write that, did you?"
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