Hello from Missouri!
I met a friend named William who has a computer that he said I could use to post a message to my site. It has been a great trip so far to Grandpa's hometown and a lot of fun talking to people here. Some I remember from last year and some I didn't know yet. William is 14 and going to be starting high school. He spends a lot of time at a store in the mall that sells video games and he knows a lot about them. His favorite game is Star Wars and he just bought the Fantastic 4. He spends a lot of time playing them and talking to people on the computer. He told me about many great places to meet people on the internet from all over the world. He was talking with a girl from england for 3 hours yesterday and she really likes video games too. William says they can even play the some games together on the computer. I could not believe this, but he showed me and there was her screen name as player 2. I also learned that no one uses their own name on the computer but a made up one like Williams which is "Space Monkey 4". I thought that was cool because I like space, but I wondered why it was number 4 and William said that there are 3 others with the same name. "Wow, that is amazing" I said and wondered what my name would be if I could think of one. I asked my Dad what he thought and he said that "your name is already made up by your Grandfather". I said maybe my screen name should be "Buckheister" and he laughed.
I will tell everyone all about my time in Missouri when I get back. We are leaving on Saturday and won't be back until next week. I don't have a word for today because I don't have my dictionary, but am learning all about the shortening of words that people use on the internet like lol and btw which means "laugh out loud" and "by the way". Uncle Don says that they are called "abbreviations" and are there to save time. I told him that I know about them but that there are some on the internet that I had never seen before. Uncle Don says that computers are changing everything and that his way of talking and working will be obsolete in 10 years. I asked what obsolete meant and he just said "old and no longer useful". I told him that he should get a computer and he said something I didn't quite understand, "we are nothing but computers".
I met a friend named William who has a computer that he said I could use to post a message to my site. It has been a great trip so far to Grandpa's hometown and a lot of fun talking to people here. Some I remember from last year and some I didn't know yet. William is 14 and going to be starting high school. He spends a lot of time at a store in the mall that sells video games and he knows a lot about them. His favorite game is Star Wars and he just bought the Fantastic 4. He spends a lot of time playing them and talking to people on the computer. He told me about many great places to meet people on the internet from all over the world. He was talking with a girl from england for 3 hours yesterday and she really likes video games too. William says they can even play the some games together on the computer. I could not believe this, but he showed me and there was her screen name as player 2. I also learned that no one uses their own name on the computer but a made up one like Williams which is "Space Monkey 4". I thought that was cool because I like space, but I wondered why it was number 4 and William said that there are 3 others with the same name. "Wow, that is amazing" I said and wondered what my name would be if I could think of one. I asked my Dad what he thought and he said that "your name is already made up by your Grandfather". I said maybe my screen name should be "Buckheister" and he laughed.
I will tell everyone all about my time in Missouri when I get back. We are leaving on Saturday and won't be back until next week. I don't have a word for today because I don't have my dictionary, but am learning all about the shortening of words that people use on the internet like lol and btw which means "laugh out loud" and "by the way". Uncle Don says that they are called "abbreviations" and are there to save time. I told him that I know about them but that there are some on the internet that I had never seen before. Uncle Don says that computers are changing everything and that his way of talking and working will be obsolete in 10 years. I asked what obsolete meant and he just said "old and no longer useful". I told him that he should get a computer and he said something I didn't quite understand, "we are nothing but computers".
posted by Jem Bigsky III at 3:47 PM
1 Comments:
dear Jem,
if you are intereseted in the idea of the obsolete body and cyborgs, (which it sounds like you might be from your last entry) check out the cyborg handbook, edited by chris hables gray. Gray, a 1994-95 NASA Fellow in Aerospace History, has collected writings that explore real cyborgs (or cybernetic organisms) as any entities that mix the mechanical with the organic.
it is also pretty thick in spots and will give you many "words of the day.'
amy
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