eye of Todd

I had a chance to talk to Bishop Smith earlier today. He heard that I was good with computers, said that he had no idea how to use his ipad and asked if I could teach a moron how to use a computer. I replied, “Yes, bishop. I would be happy to teach you how to use a computer.” Then, I realized I had a foot in my mouth. :)

watching DS9

I was watching an episode of the first season of Star Trek Deep Space 9. Jake Sisko was scanning a container to see what is inside. It bothered me that he was scanning the whole label like someone would scan a picture into a computer, moving from left to right and carefully trying to get the whole label before saying what the label read. I thought to myself, “That’s not how QR codes work! You just need to take a photo with your cell and it’s much quicker than that.” Then I realized, QR codes were not invented when the show was produced. 

8th grader question: “If someone has a split personality and one personality hates God while the other one loves Him, does half of his soul go to heaven?” Funniest question of the day yesterday.

kindle fire

According to Molly Wood, the Kindle Fire is missing the following features, “There’s no camera, front or rear; the 8GB of onboard storage is half the amount of the base-model iPad; the Fire has no cellular options, no built-in GPS, and no Bluetooth, as the iPad does. The software options compared to the iPad are minimal, and the app library for Android still isn’t nearly as robust as the iOS app library.” 

On the other hand, those are all things my phone does. So, I would feel bad at buying a much larger, more expensive device whose only advantages are redundant with another device I own and always carry around. Kindle Fire win. 

if you give me a photo

If you send me a link to a photo, I’ll either save the link or not after I see the picture. Maybe someday I’ll get back to the link to see the photo again. If the photo is on google plus, facebook or flickr, I’m more likely to do so.

If you send the photo as an email attachment, I’ll either delete it to save space or save it in my personal collection. I’ll probably get around to seeing this photo again.

If you hand me a photo album, I’ll probably give it to my parents and they’ll put other photos in it and treasure it. 

If you give me a bunch of photos outside an album, even if they’re in an envelope they’ll probably end up on the bottom of my car and I’ll forget about them till the next time I clean and I’ll feel too guilty to through them out. 

The moral of the story is that I prefer digital photos. That is all. 

conversation before mass

Me: Don’t take the bowls to the altar until after the Lamb of God.

Altar Server: You mean ciboriums?

Me: Oh good, you know the right term!

I was a little shocked and a little embarrassed. It just goes to show that I should always use proper terminology even if I don’t think they know it!