IQ rapidly approaching shoe size
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captainsblogLong and busy day today, beginning with two client appointments, ending with a three-hour meeting at church, and catching up with Emily in between delivering assorted CAREy-packagey items. Somewhere in there, I also picked up Cameron's brand new (well, newer) laptop; since I was in a rush, I didn't test it much beyond them showing me that the screen lit up, the proggies were onboard, and that it was better/stronger/faster than the mostly-dead one I brought them a couple of weeks ago.
I got home round 5, and sat down to power it up and check that everything was still good....
and I, Mister Self-Taught Guru (junior grade), who's been using computers since the late 70s without ever taking more than a couple of actual courses? Couldn't figure out how to turn the damn thing on.
Of course, it was on when I first saw it; it just never occurred to me that I would have mental illness keeping me from knowing how to repeat this feat. Fortunately, we have two other computers in the house, so I went in search of manual-type information.
Starting with this one- Notebook User's Guide- English-which proved to be utterly useless, since it basically began at the point where, it assumed, you had already powered the unit on.
So I backtracked, to this link on the same webpage to the User's Reference Guide-English. This led to a contents page including more-my-speed entries like Setting up your computer desk and chair and Sitting at your notebook. Yes! Right there was an entry for page 23, on Starting Your Notebook. A goto to that page, of course, put me on page 17 of the .pdf document- WHY, manual writers, do you always screw up the numbering of your documents relative to their searchable-in-Adobe-Reader page numbers?- and six pages later, I saw the secret solution, complete with a huuuuge arrow pointing to where they'd hidden the button.
It powered up just fine, and seems to be good to go, but when I reported this clusterfudginess to Eleanor, I dared her to find the power button on it, giving her no clue whatsoever as to where it was.
Naturally, SHE found it in two seconds.
I swear I missed the day on the assembly line where they passed out "spatial reasoning." Stayed late for the "spacey," though:P
I got home round 5, and sat down to power it up and check that everything was still good....
and I, Mister Self-Taught Guru (junior grade), who's been using computers since the late 70s without ever taking more than a couple of actual courses? Couldn't figure out how to turn the damn thing on.
Of course, it was on when I first saw it; it just never occurred to me that I would have mental illness keeping me from knowing how to repeat this feat. Fortunately, we have two other computers in the house, so I went in search of manual-type information.
Starting with this one- Notebook User's Guide- English-which proved to be utterly useless, since it basically began at the point where, it assumed, you had already powered the unit on.
So I backtracked, to this link on the same webpage to the User's Reference Guide-English. This led to a contents page including more-my-speed entries like Setting up your computer desk and chair and Sitting at your notebook. Yes! Right there was an entry for page 23, on Starting Your Notebook. A goto to that page, of course, put me on page 17 of the .pdf document- WHY, manual writers, do you always screw up the numbering of your documents relative to their searchable-in-Adobe-Reader page numbers?- and six pages later, I saw the secret solution, complete with a huuuuge arrow pointing to where they'd hidden the button.
It powered up just fine, and seems to be good to go, but when I reported this clusterfudginess to Eleanor, I dared her to find the power button on it, giving her no clue whatsoever as to where it was.
Naturally, SHE found it in two seconds.
I swear I missed the day on the assembly line where they passed out "spatial reasoning." Stayed late for the "spacey," though:P
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Date: 2012-01-18 04:20 am (UTC)YES, this. Makes me nuts.
Also, your wife is a genius. Just, you know, in case you were not aware. :)
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Date: 2012-01-18 06:08 pm (UTC)::stares::
"Which one's the 'any' key?"
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Date: 2012-01-18 07:07 pm (UTC)