We started this blog so that we could share Ellie's life with family and friends who we are not able to see as often as we would like. For the first post, we thought we'd share pictures from our day. This morning we got up at our usual weekend time of 6:15 and by 10 am, we had banana bread fresh out of the oven! Ellie was quite the helper...
(Note the box of "Egg Replacer" - after our trip to the emergency room last weekend, Ellie saw an allergist and we have found eggs to be the culprite.)
It's ready to go in the oven and Ellie is ready for a nap!
Ellie enjoying the finished product...
Not bad for a dairy-free, egg-free, low-fat banana bread!
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My first thought in preparing to comment on this new blog, was “Wow, here’s a word that wasn’t even in the dictionary 10 years ago!”
After a few moments, the screen in my mind shimmered…a black and white image…the year is 1963; less than 2 years since Lori was born. I remember my supervisor at General Electric approaching me in the hallway and telling me I was to attend a class in Fortran. Fortran? What in the world is that?!!?
The inventor of Fortran passed away recently…’don’t remember his name right now although I could easily “google it” (another word not around a few years ago except in a whimsical way).
Fortran, for those of you who don’t know (or never heard the word) was the first “high-level” computer compiler that allowed programmers to instruct a computer in an English/algebra fashion –a lot simpler than poking 1’s and 0’s into the machine’s registers by hand.
To “talk” to a computer then meant writing –line by line- in a rigid format your instructions on a paper form. This form was then passed on to the Keypunch Department, where keypunch operators punched little square holes in rectangular cards. A day or so later, one would pick up a deck of these “IBM punched cards” and feed the information into the computer using a painfully slow card reader. If everything was perfect –and it seldom was- the computer would understand what you were instructing it to do and produce some type of response: usually to an electric typewriter or a large printer (computer monitors were yet to be developed). Seldom did your “program” work the first time, so it was back to the keypunch operation to repeat the above process –sometimes many times before the desired computer output was achieved.
The point I am trying to make (yes, there is a point to this epistle) is that I am overwhelmed at the progress, achievements, and change of daily habits, that has come about in our “computer relations” over a few, short years: from punched cards and frustration to jotting notes into my daughter’s colorful, photo-video laden, blog page!
I could write a book (and I have no intention to do so) on my first computer experiences and the gradient from using a PC for the first time, the early Internet, the introduction to electronic mail, etc., to where we are today! Whatta ride!
Congratulations 3pip!
Your loving dad (to paraphrase Nixon: “I am not a geek”)
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Crazy, huh? I can't imagine not being able to go to the computer to "Google" something. I'm reading an Atlas of History book which is VERY thick. It helps to google things to expand my understanding further. ....and there is no end. Need info?, get on the net!
I love it!
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