Thoughts From a Clicker
By Tiny Ruisch
I’ve spent the past two hours trying to decide what I should write about this month. At first, I thought I’d remind everyone that schools have been dismissed for the summer and remind them to drive safely. Then I remembered that when school started last year, everyone was reminded to drive safely. I decided that wouldn’t be a good subject because some idiot would surely think that meant we didn’t have to drive safely the rest of the time.
Then I thought that maybe I could give some hints on how to use your computer more efficiently or how to use one of my favorite programs. I immediately realized that I already try to do that in the various workshops I do both at the club and on Zoom.
I almost started to write things about computing that make me mad or don’t seem to be quite as they should be. Then I wrote a paragraph about companies that make changes that make their product worse. A second paragraph addressed the question of why we need so many file formats. After starting to write about lousy tech name choices, I realized I was probably going to end up with an article about six pages long.
I finally decided on what to write about this month. I’m going to take a few minutes and ask everyone to help make our computer club a little better. How can you assist?
Why not contribute an article to this newsletter? Do you have a favorite program that you think would be useful to other computer users? Take a few minutes and tell everyone about it. Did you get some new hardware? An article reviewing the equipment would be beneficial to everyone.
Have you found a great website that everyone should know about? Heard a funny story that you can’t wait to tell everyone? Why not share it with the entire club. All you have to do is click the link on page two and send it to the editor. I know him and that he will gladly use your submission.
Why not bring a friend to one of our monthly meetings? You can impress them with how smart you are by being a member of our club. They just might decide to join the club. Then we could all benefit.
When he wasn’t busy helping me invent the internet, Vice President Al Gore said, “Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.” I think that means this would be a good time for me to shut up.
Thanks for reading.