hmmm…..
So, my daughter gave me a kindle fire for Christmas. I really wanted one and was excited when I opened the box. I brought it with me to Austin and to seminary … and I hate to admit it, but the technology eluded me. Well…. I had also just acquired a new hp computer and was working on getting it going. And at my class at seminary, the library was my first source for books and articles.
So there I was last night. I decided that it was THE night I was going to master this new toy and finally download some books on it. Thanks to my portable WiFi device I got on amazon and found a book I needed for my class. I downloaded it and guess what? There it was!!! A font that was large enough to read and a lighted page so I could read in bed instead of having to squint because of poor lighting in my bedroom. On top of that, I could still highlight sentences and take notes.
OK, so what is unusual about the last two paragraphs? On the one hand, not much; in a way, kinda deadly dull. But as I began to write, it occurred to me, if this blog (there I go again) was catapulted back even ten years, the reader would have no idea what I was talking about. Our vocabulary has changed and it is changing more and more each day. Guess my only hope of keeping up is to make sure my New Oxford American Dictionary is close at hand …. The one on my kindle …. After all, the printed one in my bookcase is dismally out of date.
hmmm…..
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