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livingdebToday I rode the bus downtown to meet my cousin who is in town and my sister and brother-in-law at Las Manitas. I knew I wouldn't have enough time to have much lunch, so I'd planned to just order a quick appetizer. But when I got there, I did not see any sisters, brothers-in-law or cousins. I checked all the tables and then waited outside. My family members are not known for being perfectly on time everywhere.
The place is very busy so I didn't feel good hogging a table when the other folks weren't there yet. Plus, someone ran to the one table that was empty as I was finishing up my search of the restaurant and plopped her purse on it and looked at me and said, "Sorry."
I don't think she felt sorry at all. I think she felt victorious.
Then after waiting outside for 25 minutes, I went back to work. It's a good thing I have a lot of snacks in my desk.
It turns out that Las Manitas has back patio. You have to go through the kitchen to get to it.
Distance learning update - One thing about me is that I have never been my own system administrator. Everything I know about computers I learned at work because I needed to for my job. At every one of these jobs there has been a system administrator to do all the behind-the-scenes work.
Although I greatly enjoy working on computers, I have an almost unbelievably tiny interest in their inner workings. And so even though I am surrounded by people who enjoy setting up computers and fixing them up, I have never been in the least way like this. My first home computer was a hand-me-down from my mother, which I left just the way it was, and my current home computer is a Mac.
Nevertheless, I have now installed Moodle, an open-source course developing system (comparable to Blackboard or WebCT) on my computer. Because I have a Mac, this is supposedly easy as pie.
It turns out that when a pop-up window gives you the very simple instructions on what to do next, with a little graphic to make it all clear, followed by words exclaiming how easy it is, and one of the steps is to move a folder into your Applications folder, and you can't find this folder anywhere, it just might be the case that the graphic in the pop-up window IS the folder. Why wasn't it on the desktop like everything else instead of disguised as a graphic? And why was it followed by the taunting nanny-nanny-boo-boo phrase about how easy this thing was?
The Mac package comes with MAMP which means my computer is now a server. I do not know anything about running servers.
When I open the Moodle application it is not yet clear to me what I do next. But it is installed, and so I celebrate my little victory.
The place is very busy so I didn't feel good hogging a table when the other folks weren't there yet. Plus, someone ran to the one table that was empty as I was finishing up my search of the restaurant and plopped her purse on it and looked at me and said, "Sorry."
I don't think she felt sorry at all. I think she felt victorious.
Then after waiting outside for 25 minutes, I went back to work. It's a good thing I have a lot of snacks in my desk.
It turns out that Las Manitas has back patio. You have to go through the kitchen to get to it.
Distance learning update - One thing about me is that I have never been my own system administrator. Everything I know about computers I learned at work because I needed to for my job. At every one of these jobs there has been a system administrator to do all the behind-the-scenes work.
Although I greatly enjoy working on computers, I have an almost unbelievably tiny interest in their inner workings. And so even though I am surrounded by people who enjoy setting up computers and fixing them up, I have never been in the least way like this. My first home computer was a hand-me-down from my mother, which I left just the way it was, and my current home computer is a Mac.
Nevertheless, I have now installed Moodle, an open-source course developing system (comparable to Blackboard or WebCT) on my computer. Because I have a Mac, this is supposedly easy as pie.
It turns out that when a pop-up window gives you the very simple instructions on what to do next, with a little graphic to make it all clear, followed by words exclaiming how easy it is, and one of the steps is to move a folder into your Applications folder, and you can't find this folder anywhere, it just might be the case that the graphic in the pop-up window IS the folder. Why wasn't it on the desktop like everything else instead of disguised as a graphic? And why was it followed by the taunting nanny-nanny-boo-boo phrase about how easy this thing was?
The Mac package comes with MAMP which means my computer is now a server. I do not know anything about running servers.
When I open the Moodle application it is not yet clear to me what I do next. But it is installed, and so I celebrate my little victory.
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Moodle
on 2007-04-07 08:30 pm (UTC)