Pickles by Brian Crane for May 24, 2021

I don’t bookmark the websites I often go to. I only type the first few letters in and it fills in the rest.

If you can’t learn how to set up a computer, you should at least learn how to ask someone who can.

My homepage is a file that I created. It contains about a hundred links. It is on my computer’s hard drive and also OneDrive (Cloud). It is a pain to maintain, but the advantage is that I can switch browsers or switch to my laptop and get the exact same links. I’m elderly.

okay…

Everybody has that issue. It’s just that, mostly, we don’t notice that we’ve forgotten how to … oh, use a card catalog, or look up a phone number in the white pages. Or double-clutch when down-shifting…

That’s right out of an episode of The IT Crowd.

“Mom, at least let me close some of the 4,296 tabs you have open.”

Add the bookmark without grandma knowing, then show her how easy it is.

I hope I never get to this point.

Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) in “A Study in Scarlet”

Peck, peck, peck, where is the hunt, Opal? Ha ha!

The last panel reminds me of an episode of “Married With Children” ! Every time Kelly learns something new something old goes out ;-)

…like nag after Earl!

My close friend, another elderly guy, once asked me why his pc was sluggish. Having spent a few decades stumbling through my own problems and solutions, I found that he had never deleted emails. He thought when he closed them they were gone. The once major email service provider still had his emails going back to 1999, over 3900.

When I hit delete, the site digitally coughed and wheezed and took almost two days to clear. That was a couple years ago, and he has had no email problems since, except for the many scammers who jumped on his email address, and who harassed him until he learned how to change it.

So, while us elders sometimes resist learning things that might help, we also find ways to make progress toward what we need or want to know. Just as with youngsters, we learn at our own speed.

Ha! Best to leave her to her own devices….

I LOVE my toolbar. It has my most frequented websites.

Oh my GOD – This is TOTALLY my mom..!!!!!

An old Steven Wright joke. He said that someone once told him that in order to learn something new, you had to forget something old. He liked the idea, but could not help but wonder what he forgot in order to learn this new thing.

I know someone exactly like Opal.

My father’s version of this. “I have lived a long time and learned so much that my brain is completely full. If you want me to remember that, I am going to have to forget something else”

When my job was working on PC problems, and I would be trying to recover someone’s data from a failing or corrupted hard drive, always one of the most important things they did not want to lose was their Bookmarks…

I’m just now having to learn to use a cell phone. So far, not too big of a fan of it-TMI, and don’t hardly know what’s junk and legit. Thankful for being able to turn off so much through the settings cog.

Pear is of the old school….very old school.

It was the other way around in my house as my child was growing up. Even in college, and sometimes currently, I would get calls for help with computers. And directions while driving, but the apps have eliminated those calls.

Mom, I’ll create the bookmark. Then, you have to remember how to use it. That way, you don’t have to remember what to type in every time. That will leave slightly more room in your memory.

Sherlock Holmes was concerned that human memory had limited capacity. He didn’t care to know whether the Sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the Sun. It wasn’t relevant to what he did. He would rather save room for something that might be useful to a consulting detective.

This is absolutely true, and it’d be funny as hell if it weren’t happening to me.

I used to do that for the first couple of years when I first started surfing the net. All my notepads would be filled with URLs that I never visited. Now I just bookmark news and read it four years later.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten many things, I just don’t remember what they are.btw: I have a hypothesis that one of the reasons we dream is to dump irrelevant memories and since memories aren’t store sequentially we have some pretty surreal dreams sometimes.

This is simply a lazy belief. The human mind is always capable of learning new things. If you don’t practice old things, you will forget them. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.

All you do is hit CTRL + ALT + PAGE UP + ESC + F10 in that order within two milliseconds

I’ve been telling everyone that my Hubby’s hard drive is full – he can’t learn anything new without getting an error message ;)

“But I don’t listen to her cuz my head is like a sieve, duh-duh-duh-duh…” Cheech & Chong “Up in Smoke”

Her brain has reached it’s saturation point and she is not interested in wringing it out.

Same reason she’s got the browser on “private.” She doesn’t want everyone to know she’s always on chipendancers.xxx.

she can add it to the bookmarks and tell her mom to check the bookmarks the next time she wants to access that website.

I know! Right?

That’s a very old joke.

I think of the brain as a hard drive with only so much memory. At some point, in order to add something, something else has to be deleted, and you don’t always get a choice as to what.