A student at Northern, knowing I like bird and birding, asked me which App I use. I said “I love the Audubon app.” He said, “You’ve got to get Merlin,” and then he described a few features of Merlin. So, I looked for it, found it, he told me I had the right App, and I loaded it onto my smart phone.
Sounds great and all, but true happiness is when you get a notification from Amazon saying your copy of The Second Testament which was supposed to arrive on the 27th will be delivered on the 23rd instead. :)
Well, this was certainly a trip down memory lane, reminding me of that first computer stuck on my desk in 1984 - the one that required three floppy disks just to start to write a letter. Then when my employer made me switch in 1990 from the software I had finally mastered to Apple - a completely different computer world. It has been four decades of learning, then unlearning because a new tech was upon us. Now I just want to be allowed to ignore the new stuff, but I can't because the back-up to the familiar goes away. SIGH. It's enough to make me reach for a pen and paper but then this email would remain unsent. SIGH. I'm stuck. The next generations may look forward to "the next thing." Not me. PLEASE just let me write this email before I have to the next new system coming at me.
I'm right there with you (age wise). I remember my giant, in-a-suitcase "car phone" that cost a gazillion dollars a minute, and my kids would call me to tell me that one of them was being mean, or wouldn't give them xyz. That was surely progress. I even remember when we got actual electric typewriters in school. I hit the air 100 times to return the carriage before I learned to just hit the return key. Oh, and I also recently installed Merlin. We apparently have a LOT of robins. Plus a bunch of tufted purple bellied whatchamacallits. I'll stick with the robins. And I don't know why you have to wait til tomorrow to get something from Amazon. What are you, in the forest somewhere? I just have to think it and it appears.
Thanks for making me feeling really old 🤣🤣🤣🥹. I like the idea of the bird app. Going to let my wife know about that one. She is also a Mac user from the first Mac ( a small one ) to her 17 inch screen Mac .
The first time I saw a cell phone was in a friend’s car ( car phone ) I thought whoa 😮 that’s cool .
Merna and I have been using Merlin for about 2 years, and it's amazing what we've learned in that time. We like to walk around our "block" (not a real city block) and leave it on as we walk. Through doing that, we discovered that we have both red-eyed vireos and yellow-breasted vireos here. They tend to stay high up in the trees, and because at 60 or 80 or 100 ft., they look a bit nondescript, we'd never known they were here, although they're common. Just this morning, I was outside and heard a "kik, kik, kik," which, due to Merlin, we now know is the call of the Cooper's hawks that have nested here and that we see a lot of the time, although I didn't see it this morning: it was clearly out of view, high in an oak. The Merlin Sound ID app is fabulous, and it's free (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Glad you've discovered it, Scot and Kristen!
Sounds great and all, but true happiness is when you get a notification from Amazon saying your copy of The Second Testament which was supposed to arrive on the 27th will be delivered on the 23rd instead. :)
Well, this was certainly a trip down memory lane, reminding me of that first computer stuck on my desk in 1984 - the one that required three floppy disks just to start to write a letter. Then when my employer made me switch in 1990 from the software I had finally mastered to Apple - a completely different computer world. It has been four decades of learning, then unlearning because a new tech was upon us. Now I just want to be allowed to ignore the new stuff, but I can't because the back-up to the familiar goes away. SIGH. It's enough to make me reach for a pen and paper but then this email would remain unsent. SIGH. I'm stuck. The next generations may look forward to "the next thing." Not me. PLEASE just let me write this email before I have to the next new system coming at me.
I'm right there with you (age wise). I remember my giant, in-a-suitcase "car phone" that cost a gazillion dollars a minute, and my kids would call me to tell me that one of them was being mean, or wouldn't give them xyz. That was surely progress. I even remember when we got actual electric typewriters in school. I hit the air 100 times to return the carriage before I learned to just hit the return key. Oh, and I also recently installed Merlin. We apparently have a LOT of robins. Plus a bunch of tufted purple bellied whatchamacallits. I'll stick with the robins. And I don't know why you have to wait til tomorrow to get something from Amazon. What are you, in the forest somewhere? I just have to think it and it appears.
Thanks for making me feeling really old 🤣🤣🤣🥹. I like the idea of the bird app. Going to let my wife know about that one. She is also a Mac user from the first Mac ( a small one ) to her 17 inch screen Mac .
The first time I saw a cell phone was in a friend’s car ( car phone ) I thought whoa 😮 that’s cool .
Merna and I have been using Merlin for about 2 years, and it's amazing what we've learned in that time. We like to walk around our "block" (not a real city block) and leave it on as we walk. Through doing that, we discovered that we have both red-eyed vireos and yellow-breasted vireos here. They tend to stay high up in the trees, and because at 60 or 80 or 100 ft., they look a bit nondescript, we'd never known they were here, although they're common. Just this morning, I was outside and heard a "kik, kik, kik," which, due to Merlin, we now know is the call of the Cooper's hawks that have nested here and that we see a lot of the time, although I didn't see it this morning: it was clearly out of view, high in an oak. The Merlin Sound ID app is fabulous, and it's free (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Glad you've discovered it, Scot and Kristen!