[BITList] And the beat goes on...

franka franka at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 13 04:09:34 BST 2012


Hugh
I have a kindle which I keep in the car for the times when I am sat 
there waiting for my wife to come back from were ever I have driven her, 
but that's it no phone no ipad etc. cant say the same for the house 
though that's networked to hell
frank
On 6/13/2012 3:07 AM, HUGH wrote:
> Tuesday,
> Frank,
> Some more on the theme of old people and technology. My wife and I 
> spent the day in Inveraray.  Our daughter and her husband had come 
> back from their caravan there on Sunday and couldn't remember if 
> they'd turned this and that off - younger people and technology.  So 
> they asked us to go up and check.  It's only 3 hours by bus.  On the 
> way back we were at the back of the bus, surrounded - more like hemmed 
> in - by (I counted) 13 Ipod type objects and a couple of Kindles.  
> Fingers were feverishly moving hither and thither on small screens 
> (they think they're big, but they're small), and many had earphones 
> stuck into the ears.  My wife and I were two of the only four not 
> equipped. Oddly enough, we survived the journey.
> I have no objection to people owning these bloody things, but why must 
> they always be attached to them?
> Hugh.
>
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