Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Technology: Ain't It Just Real Great?
Posted 12-17-2018 at 11:06 AM by case44
There's much to be appreciated when it comes to having things done faster. Computers have been the force behind doing things differently that paper and pen usage has, for the most part, all but become obsolete. Still, technology as a whole remains an imperfect science.
Just try waiting for a command which you make on a computer in any type of program. In the words of the late, great Tom Petty, "The waiting is the hardest part...."
Funny how we civilians waste our lives waiting for a computer to make a move. I'm talking, of course, about commands. We get a computer to try to do something, and we'd be forced to watch paint dry. Sure, technology has improved so many lives including that of yours truly. Hotel reservations, for example, got a lot more exciting and a little easier with a little homework to go with it. But at work, where I use a system for brokerage operations, things have to connect to go right. It gets frustrating when the system I use freezes up from time to time, and every few hours, I'd have to shut the system down (many times, without logging completely off the computer) before bringing it back up. I wish it were not so, but then, who am I to dictate? Temptation would be better spent on food and women than on work scenarios. But wasn't technology supposed to be made perfect so as to greatly improve everything we do? One would think so.
Recently, I had to replace my computer tower at home to fix a crash on my old one. Costly but worth it. If only there were better ways to fix crashes and burns and wrong turns without so much expense being exhausted. If only, too, there were better ways to alleviate an ongoing problem on my BOSS work system that keeps fritzing up. Only time will tell.
Just try waiting for a command which you make on a computer in any type of program. In the words of the late, great Tom Petty, "The waiting is the hardest part...."
Funny how we civilians waste our lives waiting for a computer to make a move. I'm talking, of course, about commands. We get a computer to try to do something, and we'd be forced to watch paint dry. Sure, technology has improved so many lives including that of yours truly. Hotel reservations, for example, got a lot more exciting and a little easier with a little homework to go with it. But at work, where I use a system for brokerage operations, things have to connect to go right. It gets frustrating when the system I use freezes up from time to time, and every few hours, I'd have to shut the system down (many times, without logging completely off the computer) before bringing it back up. I wish it were not so, but then, who am I to dictate? Temptation would be better spent on food and women than on work scenarios.
But wasn't technology supposed to be made perfect so as to greatly improve everything we do? One would think so.Recently, I had to replace my computer tower at home to fix a crash on my old one. Costly but worth it. If only there were better ways to fix crashes and burns and wrong turns without so much expense being exhausted. If only, too, there were better ways to alleviate an ongoing problem on my BOSS work system that keeps fritzing up. Only time will tell.
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