One Person’s Click…

I wrote to my son: “How do I get on a blog?” Made sense to me. He wrote: “If you want to read a blog – just click, if you want to write a blog – ask your son.”  Now I have one.  (Although at the time, I really did just want to read blogs – which I now can do).

Went to a dinner dance on Saturday and was telling the tale to the guy sitting next to me – got to the part about “get on…” and he said it depends on whether you want to read a blog or write a blog.  Computer people speak a tongue we technically challanged are unaccustomed to.

Apparently one must learn the language – just pushing the on button(s) and typing isn’t enough.  For example: when you push the button on the mouse, you “click”. I think it “pucks”. Listen for yourself…hear? that was not a click. It was a puck.  My calling it “pucking” drove my very computer brilliant son bonkers.  My friends call it a “Ginaism”. My husband learned to live with it – he understands my idiosyncrasies when it comes to language – he would tell me about integrated circuits and call them “cockroaches” because that’s what they look like – to me.

So: “select” is not black out

      “close” is not x out

      “write” is not email (go back up and correct the mail mentions above for yourselves if you are as easily bugged as my son)

I will never straighten out “files”, “directories” and a couple more terms I can’t even remember – or have blocked out. 

Speaking of language, I am listed as the “editor” of the Edison Literary Review – and I am.  But if the editor is the person(s) responsible for seeing that a magazine goes from a sheaf of snail mail papers and electronic submissions (got all those terms right, I think) to the publication you can hold and read – then Tony Gruenewald and John Larkin are certainly editors. They do all the nitty gritty back page work – and brilliantly, may I add. Look through a copy of ELR and see for yourself.

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