Comments on: Late admission of techno-faux-bia

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:19:35 +0000

@rudibrarian – *blush* thanks!

And it’s true – it’s always nice to find that other folks have things they’re not experts at, and that we’re all in this to help each other and our patrons. It’s easy to forget, though, when we get overwhelmed and feel like we should do everything. This is a nice reminder that we probably *shouldn’t* be trying to do everything – it’s a matter of choosing the most useful and making them work for us. Something we librarians as a breed should likely have tattooed/Post-It’d to our collective foreheads.

By: rudibrarian

rudibrarian — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:14:20 +0000

Greg, the sad thing is I knew that. and yet somehow, phone/computer synchrony threw me into an avoidance spin! We’ll see if I can figure it out out for tonight.

By: rudibrarian

rudibrarian — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:13:08 +0000

What I really liked about this meme is that we sort of view some folks as having all the mad skillz we wish we had, and by exposing what we don;t have to the sun, we can see that we stand on equal footing. The paving stones are in different places, but none of us has all the tech comforts we think we need and we all seem to be doing just fine!

I am going to have to take your rssfwd advice, because I am *terrible* about looking at my bloglines!

Plus, Colleen, you can write like nobody’s business! Take your cool cred all over the map!

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:01:28 +0000

I haven’t tried SecondLife yet, but I’m hoping that my brief stint as a WoW gamer will help me when I finally do get into it.

I despise texting, and am glad to hear I’m not the only holdout. If you need me ASAP, call me. If not, email me.

My embarrassing admission is that I hate Macs. I find the one-button-on-the-mouse thing creepy and unnatural. And I can never close a window because there’s no X. I am hyperventilating just thinking about the Mac upstairs in our IT workroom.

Embarrassing admission #2? I hate feedburners. i despise them. They throw me into anxiety attacks when I don’t check them for a week and I see I have 2000000 things to read. *panic* I use http://rssfwd.com and send the blogs and such that i care to follow straight to my email account. That’s right. You can keep your feedburners and other cool apps – I have gmail, tyvm.

Shh. My colleagues think I am fresh and hip and ‘with it’ on new technologies. I am also just now learning how to use the iPod I bought last year before they got cool touchscreens. But we have a Learning 2.0 initiative that deals with that, so I’m okay, since there’s a module.

I don’t dig creating databases, but in my former life, I was a SAS and STATA geek. I refused to take the PERL class in library school, though, because other than HTML, I don’t do programming.

*sigh* I am feeling terminally uncool.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:12:54 +0000

Rudy, the first thing you should know is that, from what I can tell, most people call in to Unvocab with their cell phones. No VoIP needed. But that’s not the most affordable option for some folks, including me, and that’s where VoIP is handy.

So let me volunteer my services to help get you past the VoIP intimidation cycle. I understand where it comes from and, with my help, we can kick its butt back to FUDville. No obligation to participate in the show. Just a friend helping a friend.

Of course, none of this is an excuse for not listening! You’ll have to come up with a better reason than that.