I was listening to a tech-savvy commentator on the radio yesterday. Listeners call him and ask questions about why there is a glitch in their particular...device. Stuff like that. Now I learned MONTHS ago (really, it's been that long) that a device could be anything from an iPhone to an iPad to a laptop to a--God forbid--desktop. Anyway, his answers are way beyond my understanding more often than not.

Talking to the show's host (I can't remember his name) he made mention that the new...devices...Apple and the rest of them are creating are where the future is, and that desktops are going the way of the dinosaur. I thought, "Crap! I can't type with my thumbs very well on my phone, and it'll be a cold day in hell before I invest in an iWatch. Sorry Dick Tracy :) Or is it :D? Why would I want a computer on my wrist? Actually, why would I want to hold one in my hands and try to type on those eensie-teensie keys. With my THUMBS!!!? I want my entire set of fingers on the keyboard. Alright, I don't use all of them, usually my right middle finger, and a few of my left fingers. but it works well for me.

I sometimes watch--hopefully inconspicuously--KIDS at Starbucks (why are they ordering real coffee anyway, lol). I watch them typing like gangbusters on their phones. With nothing but their thumbs! I wonder how they mastered that art? I use my phone for calling or receiving calls, and I use one finger to put in the number. DON'T  text me! It takes way too long to reply using my index finger and the delete key every other letter. Besides, half the words in the messages they write are spelled incorrectly. We can communicate so much more efficiently and intelligently in a live conversation. In a tenth of the time. Using decent English.

Turning the corner a bit. Just bear with me...

I really enjoy many of these things they call "memes" in posts at Goodreads, Facebook, etc., so I went to GOOGLE and did a search this morning. Then, maybe to figure out how these kids create them, to Youtube. Did I spell that correctly? Back to Google. Nope, it's YouTube. God bless Google and Youtube...Tube.

After watching half a dozen "Yo, bro, here's a simple method...", I almost gave up, until some guy (I think a high school student) walked me through the steps of the imgur process. I typed in the link, and, whoa! I can do a rudimentary MEME:) So I have something new to play with in the coming days: How to make mine jump up and down like the good ones those bloody tech-savvy kids do. Damn, what has the world come to?

Which leads me to the whole gist of this post. Books that so many are crazy in love with, and that I am not, lol.

I think I AM a dinosaur! They're nuts for...Red Rising? Like I had a hard time getting through the first book!

I'll tell you exactly why very soon.