this isn't a tool like an axe

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Good Lord!  They don't make it easy to make new posts.  Complained about it the last time.  Or at least they don't make it easy to find the link.

But then, it is relatively free.

Head is still buzzing from helping the technology challenged operate their devices.

There is some irony or something in the idea that we can afford to own a device that is like the Ferrari of technology but use it to go to the grocery store.

At one time I said the same about Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, when I had to design them and help people use them in a business environment.  Most people who use them use understand about 1 percent of the capability of the program itself and of that one percent understand probably about a tenth of how it works.  Someone shows them what to do and they do it.  Over and over.  So it is a tool.

But this isn't a tool like an axe, which mind you still has to be mastered and you certainly get better at it the longer you use it.  No, this is a modern thing, which has little precedent in the past.  Screwing up a spreadsheet might come back on you, but it won't put a gaping hole in your knee.

Anyone who has worked in, well, anywhere, will recognize the dynamic.  What did Mr. Jackson say?  Joe Jackson, that is..."Pretty women out walking with Gorillas down my street...if my eyes don't deceive me, there's somethin' goin' wrong around here."

Anyway, no justice, and no real credit for being the smartest one in the room.  Socially savvy, slightly sociopathic, somewhat lacking in compunction.  Don't worry, you'll go far.

These days.  Or probably always.

At the end of time, someone will be trying to corner the market in squirrel pelts, despite some smarty pants explaining that if you kill all the breeding pairs, there'll be none left for next winter.

Chao