It happened to me yesterday when my son Justin had a friend of his over from school who's never been over before, his Mom brought him over and his Dad picked 'em up so I got a chance to meet-n-greet both and they seemed like really nice people. (Yay! I made some new friends in real-life, yay! 
)
But when my daughter took the Mom on a tour of the house the subject of computers came up....it's kind of inevitable given everyone in the house has one plus an extra couple laying around, not to mention my daughter is extrodinarily proud of her Kittyputer w/Hello Kitty flat-speakers and it tends to be a subject of conversation when people first see it.
She surprised the hell out of me though and said, "Wow! I thought we were the only family around that everyone had their own computer in.".
Now making friends with a classmate of my son's parents is cool and all and something I gotta start doing more of, but for them to actually be computer literate is like a gift from the gods or something!
They're both into the net, and she asked me if I could help her husband out with an old Ford PeoplePC that he wants to set up for file-sharing. (He's into music, he's a guitarist in a local band I guess)
So he picked the son up and we got to meet and talk, and we were discussing various file-sharing proggies for a while...it was fun!
One problem; I couldn't go too deep, if you know what I mean. The guy knew enough to know that there was a difference between 98, ME, & XP...but he didn't know which one was better or why.
Better with PCs than 80% of the people I deal with right there, the ability to learn puts 'em up to the 95% bracket. 8)
Oh, and my son and their son had a blast in the bouncy thing.
So it was a very weirdish day for me IRL yesterday and to top it all off I can't talk about it over at EB since they saw it up on me browser and asked me about it and they're checking out me site and I just don't feel comfortable talking about it there now.
)But when my daughter took the Mom on a tour of the house the subject of computers came up....it's kind of inevitable given everyone in the house has one plus an extra couple laying around, not to mention my daughter is extrodinarily proud of her Kittyputer w/Hello Kitty flat-speakers and it tends to be a subject of conversation when people first see it.
She surprised the hell out of me though and said, "Wow! I thought we were the only family around that everyone had their own computer in.".
Now making friends with a classmate of my son's parents is cool and all and something I gotta start doing more of, but for them to actually be computer literate is like a gift from the gods or something!
They're both into the net, and she asked me if I could help her husband out with an old Ford PeoplePC that he wants to set up for file-sharing. (He's into music, he's a guitarist in a local band I guess)
So he picked the son up and we got to meet and talk, and we were discussing various file-sharing proggies for a while...it was fun!
One problem; I couldn't go too deep, if you know what I mean. The guy knew enough to know that there was a difference between 98, ME, & XP...but he didn't know which one was better or why.
Better with PCs than 80% of the people I deal with right there, the ability to learn puts 'em up to the 95% bracket. 8)
Oh, and my son and their son had a blast in the bouncy thing.
So it was a very weirdish day for me IRL yesterday and to top it all off I can't talk about it over at EB since they saw it up on me browser and asked me about it and they're checking out me site and I just don't feel comfortable talking about it there now.
