Anybody who knows me would never accuse me of knowing anything about computers. I cringe when a young person uses the words “intuitive” and “computer” in the same sentence. “Just click and drag it.” they say in their most patient, Kindergarten teacher’s voice. Assuming that works, my next question would be: “Where do I drag it after I’ve clicked it?”
Clicking and dragging a mouse somehow seems cruel.
You know I’m kidding, right? It’s really not that bad but you get the picture. I feel like a dinosaur biding it’s time in a technological age.
The other day I was with Deward Knapp, my website designer and we were trying (translation: Deward was doing the work and I was watching) to get a downloadable version of my Cartoon FUNdamentals book ready to go on Kindle, Amazon.com and my website. There were a significant number of technological barriers and Deward said we needed “Magic Cookies” to get the job done.
When I asked what he meant, he gave me that patient, Kindergarten teacher look and simply said it was programmer’s talk for tricks they use to work around problems in the system. In other words, there was no way he could explain it in a way that I had any chance of understanding.
I guess the lesson here, if there is one, is know your limitations. My problem with that is there’s not a lot of satisfaction in being able to brag that you were able to turn it on…all by yourself. Oh to be 4 years old again… and intuitive.