#technology glitches

[teachezwell]

* Fickle Technology

To paraphrase a former IT specialist: “You can love Technology but you can’t trust him.” I wanted to wring Technology’s neck yesterday.  He promised me the moon: Discovery Education, Reading A-Z, BrainPop, and Google docs, to name a few.  He left me holding dust. My student uses eye gaze for communication, so at least we had Tobii Dynavox I-12 and Communicator 5.  Technology pretended not to…

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The opening act last night was a guy named Parker Gispert who is in the band the Whigs (from Athens, GA) and I don’t know if it was a brief bourbon buzz I had or what but I found him really amusing, he just reminded me of the rando guy who walks up to you and your friend at a party or bar and starts talking and at first you may be like Oh here we go but then you realize they are harmless and it’s either how they are or it’s their way of meeting people but they start talking about weird and random things and you just end up like thanks for entertaining me buddy and you may never see the guy again or he may end up in your circle of friends but it just brought back memories of having a circle of friends and going out to bars and parties. I liked his music too and I bought a CD from him as well.

After his set, my sister and I went to the bathroom. I had to go right when we first got there and afterward was complaining about how auto toilets are either too slow or too fast, especially in airports when you have all your gear and the stall may be super small and it flushes as soon as you start doing your bidniz and 2 more times by the time you’re done, and then I couldn’t get the fucking water to go on until I put my hands *over* the faucet (makes sense eh). So anyway the 2nd time we both went into stalls and I was done before her, so when she finally came out she said “Did you hear me shouting NO!” and I said, what, I didn’t hear you at all. And she said “well you were probably already done, it took me so long. I don’t know why I even bothered with the seat cover, I usually use TP but  as soon as I put the seat cover on, the toilet flushed, and so then I got the next one and it did it again!” and by this time we are laughing a lot at the merch table and she manages to spit out “THREE TIMES” and I was dying and she goes “and we just talked about it!!” and by this time the merch dude who was way too serious was like what is so funny? and we were like almost crying. It helps to know my sister who is kinda straightlaced but I’m imagining her going NO! at the toilet and I’m crying again.

[talesfromanaspiringjournalist]

Entry#28: What happened? :|

May 10, 2013

            We were asked to go to Nordis. We went there to discuss on having a group article. It was about the things we covered about election like the Final Testing and Sealing of PCOS machines PLUS the assessment of the different parties in Baguio on the FTS.

            So we went different ways. I went to the side of the Liberal Party (LP). They said that it was fine. There were no problems.

            We are about to have an online conversation later to talk about the article we were about to write. I was confident that we are going to do this perfectly especially that our reports were full of facts.

            The bad thing was our internet got screwed up. Especially mine. YOU CAN’T REALLY TRUST FULLY THE TECHNOLOGY. :|

            Because of the screwed up internet I was having, I went to work on an internet shop. Good thing I was going to sleep over a friend’s house because of our broadcasting internship, there was an internet shp near their boarding house, so yeah I was feeling lucky then. But as I logged in on computer #1, facebook is not working, I went then to computer #2 because the girl who used it said that facebook was working there. By the time I logged in again, it was not again working. Okay. So maybe that was just a coincidence. I went to computer #3, I can’t again log in. I don’t know what’s wrong with me that day. It was a very unlucky moment for me :| So I texted my co-interns and narrated the problem I was facing. I just hoped they understood it.

            By the time I got the chance to talk to them, we divided our parts and worked on our article. Because of the screwed up internet we are all facing, the confidence I felt went away. I don’t know what’s happening then. I don’t really know. And I don’t want to know on what will Nordis say about what we’ve done. T_______T