Burnt Toast

By Iain Aschendale · May 15, 2020 · ·
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  1. To look at things, all I have is a pile of burnt toast.

    And this isn't a writing or progress journal thing, so if you're hoping for that you can just move on.

    My classes are starting soon and I've got a lot of software to learn. And it isn't, in my opinion, particularly well-designed software. I've been using computers as long as most people my age and there are certain things that are pretty intuitive by now.

    Drag and drop.

    Copy and paste.

    Hit "CTRL" to select multiple items on a list.

    This stuff is... different from that. Not completely and utterly different, but enough to leave me scratching my head as to why the designers made the particular choices that they did.

    So I've just spent the entire morning figuring out how to do what should be a pretty simple copying operation.

    And I'm sure in time it will become a pretty simple copying operation.

    But it's a good thing I wasn't in charge of breakfast because I started in on this project three hours ago and so far all I've managed to do is create a pile of burnt toast and one single solitary slice that's nicely browned.

    On one side, and neither I nor my students take their toast English style.

    It doesn't look like it, but it is progress.
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  1. GrahamLewis
    Progress is progress.

    Maybe you are not quite as computer-savvy as you think. It happens to the best of us.
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