no technology

Last weekend were the elections in elsipogtog and i scruteneered for my uncle. I sat there all day saturday until 8 pm looking up everyone that came in and voted.The second day we did the mail in ballots and then we counted the votes.I was there until 11pm until we found out who was elected. The entire time I was there scratching names off with a pencil I was thinking to myself, where is all the technology. We never used one peice of technolgy while we there. Today I would have thought they might have incorporated a laptop or something to make it a lot easier. I guess this is a perfect example of how traditional skills came into effect.

Lobster Fishing

I was just thinking about how technology can make a big difference in someone's life. I grew up watching my uncles fish, they would take me out on the boat when i was about 11 years old to cut bait. I remember how my uncles used to find thier traps. All they had back then was a compus and coordinates and it would be almost impossible for someone to do if they knew nothing about it. Today when I go fishing with them we use plotters that have the whole map of our fishing grounds. Depth sounders to see how deep the waters are we are fishing in. I was on a boat that even had a laptop hooked up in it.
Before this new technology was really available to us you would have to know coordinates are all about. Today a guy could pretty much jump on the boat for the first time and find his traps. Theres a little cursor on the screen which is your boat and as you move your map adjusts. It will show you and bring you right to the exact spot where your traps are. That could save you a lot of time and make your job easier and you can be more efficient. Thats just one example of how technology has made a fishermans job easier.

I was playing x-box the other day and i was surprised at how good the graphics are. It was like real life,and I was remembering back in the day when the playstation first come out. I thought the graphics on that were crazyand now that i look back these games now a days are right crazy. You can chat on there and play someone half way across the world, so yeah I think that's pretty neat.

just thinking

Hey whats up who evers reading my blogs. My weekend is over now but i had a lot of fun,met some really cool people. I gotta go to work tommorow and i was just wondering what to right on this blog and i got to thinking about work. When we put on dry wall sometimes i'll be missing the beams, so my buddy said we should by one of those stud finders. I was thinking it would probably make it a lot easier. I might go out and buy one i'm still not sure yet. That's new tachnology that is making my job earier to do.

Today I was visiting my sisters kids and I was amazed at some of the toys they have. These were books that talked to you and the kids really like them. They were learning thier abc's and numbers and it was something they enjoyed doing. This is a posotive influence that technology has played on my nieces and nephew. The toys I played with when I was a kid were nothing lilke the ones that are out there today. These new toys for young kids educate them at the same time as there having fun. So it was good to see something like that.