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Happy Birthday, Oh Captain, My Captain!

Have a wonderful one, capn_ahab


Okay, I have a serious request for my academic career. I need everyone to please comment me or email me (vivien529@aol.com) for a paper I'm researching. I need you to think back to senior year of high school/freshman year of college and list all items of technology that you personally used on a daily or weekly basis. Please list your dates, as well. I especially need my younger and/or non US Friends to contribute, but all data is welcome.

The paper is on How the digital divide between Digital Natives (those born in the late 80's) and Digital Immigrants (the rest of us) will affect teaching and learning internationally and I just want to get a feel of what all of your experiences with tech (from calculators to vcrs to video games to iPods to fancy tech doohickeys I have no clue about since I'm a DI)

Thank ya kindly in advance!

I forgot!

I had what might be the best visit to a doctor ever today. I had changed my dr. at the HMO to a female cos I just like having a female dr. I went to ask about the pain and agony of my shoulders and neck. The dr. turns out to have scoliosis too, and SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. This is a first. I was so excited and relieved. She gave me a muscle relaxer and told me I must start exercising more (swimming in particular). But hurray! She knew exactly what I was going through because she has the similar pains herself.

rivkat had recommended a book, and I greedily read it over the weekend. I want everyone who loves watching Buffy and/or enjoys the trashy fun of the Anita Blake series to read this wonderful book. It's called Sunshine by Robin McKinley, and it's about an AU that has vampires who are seriously alien monsters, not pretty fellas all dressed up like humans (not that there's anything wrong with that ;), realistic magic, and more questions than answers. The heroine is fabulous - none of the dark, kinda creepy taint that Anita Blake has always had, and the book is one of the few that leaves me saying "More now!" I hope there will be more, anyway - it seems to lead up to at least one other. As icing on the cake, here's what Neil Gaimain says on the back cover: "Sunshine is gripping, funny, page-turning, pretty much perfect work for magical literature that exists more or less at the unlikely crossroads of Chocolat, Interview with the Vampire, Misery, and the tale of Beauty and the Beast."

silveraspen, you particularly need to read this NOW!