All right, I forgot AGAIN. Dang it!<\/p>\n
So, let’s say that yesterday, the 14th day of Thanksgiving (or T-minus 14 and counting, man<\/i> I’m sorry I missed that), I was thankful for the Interwebs. It’s useful.<\/p>\n
Personal computers were just becoming commonplace when I was twenty-something. I actually learned how to use a terminal on the UTHSCSA<\/a>‘s mainframe, and I would tell you all about it if I could remember that far back.* I quit that job in 1987 to go back to school, and my electrical engineer husband built me my very first personal computer (with a 12″ VGA monitor!) to use for writing papers. The first modem I remember using was a 9600 baud, and was the envy of some of my tech-savvy friends.<\/p>\n But today I use Facebook<\/a> to keep up with old friends and some relatives I don’t get to see very often, so much so that I feel like I’m involved in their lives. I get information and news from Twitter<\/a>. I do research (for money) on it, I compare all kinds of goods before I order something and have it delivered right to my door, and I can find out for sure if Jabo’s Hardware<\/a> has a dowel the size I need before I bother driving there (at TalkTo.com<\/a>; you should try it). I see photos of enchanting gardens<\/a> in all kinds of exotic places all over the world, search thousands of knitting patterns<\/a> to find the one with the exact details I want. I find out where else we’ve seen that woman from that episode of Elementary<\/a>1<\/span><\/sup>, what started the fire in Milford<\/a>, whether Sarah Michelle Gellar<\/a>‘s second child was a boy or girl2<\/sup><\/span>, who it was Jamie Benn collided with last night<\/a>3<\/sup><\/span>, and what the heck is up with Rob Ford<\/a>4<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n It’s an amazing world. And I’m thankful I get to see it.<\/p>\n *Really, all I remember is that the various machines were named after Lord of the Rings characters. So you worked on Frodo or Bilbo, etc. Yeah, those were the days.<\/span><\/i> All right, I forgot AGAIN. Dang it! So, let’s say that yesterday, the 14th day of Thanksgiving (or T-minus 14 and counting, man I’m sorry I missed that), I was thankful for the Interwebs. It’s useful. Personal computers were just becoming commonplace when I was twenty-something. I actually learned how to use a terminal on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/sup><\/span> 1<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0Independence Day.<\/span>
\n2<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0Boy<\/i><\/span>
\n3<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0Hudler<\/i><\/span>
\n4<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0Oy!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"