> > I have to admit that there is still a minor generation gap. These days, everybody under 30 is a whiz on computers...
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> Everybody over 20 and under 30, more like. Back in my day, computers had limited resources but were easy to program, and almost every child who got one tried his or her hand at BASIC programming. Some even went to machine language and tweaked the computer to their needs.
> Now children are pampered with high-technology computers that they only ever use for playing games or chatting on the net. They wouldn't know a programming language if it bit them.

I married a computer geek. He does something called "firmware" for optical storage devices. He programs a lot in C with various numbers of pluses after it. Other codes too, I think. He must be pretty good at it because, with all the trouble here in Silicon Valley, he has not been out of work for even 24 hours.

However, he can't help me at all. He doesn't even try anymore and I don't even ask. I go so slow, to him, that he can't help reaching over and doing stuff, faster than I can follow. He can't tell me what he just did because he thinks of it in such shorthand that it makes no sense.

Even simple things that I should be able to do, I can't because we don't have a computer in our house, we have an electronics lab with all kinds of stuff plugged in.

Transferring pictures from a digital camera to a CD was more than I could do, because there was something plugged into every port in the tower and a bunch of other cables lying there not currently plugged in at all. I didn't know what would happen if I unplugged something wrong.

And there I am, under the desk with a flashlight and a back that has been broken 4 times in 4 places and had fusion surgery in one of those places.

I think he does this for power, it's not a generation gap becuase we are from the same generation (41) it is a power gap.

This is a guy who forgot how to boil macaroni after Easy Mac, who, when served chicken, choked and said "There's a BONE in this chicken!"
I replied, "Yes, chickens need bones to keep them from flopping over when they peck."

Oh, Yeah....and he can't drive a stick.