Tonight Sydney sat down and taught me basic HTML. Nothing fancy, but he helped me set up a page for all of the links I want to keep handy. A few notable things about this:
1) I, the young’un, took computer lessons from a self-described dinosaur, in both age and personality.
2) For the first few minutes he looked quite happy to help me bumble my way through /,<, =, and back again.
3) However, by the end, he had gotten sick of hearing exclamations like “Oh, cool, I can change colors! Sydney, come look!” By now he may be seriously pondering the effects of age and intelligence gaps on a relationship. . .
4) Figuring out how to change the font by myself felt like a real accomplishment. I gave Sydney a big smile that looked a lot like the one a 2-month-old gave me today when, as I was changing her diaper, she wet completely through the new one, her onesie, her outfit, and also the changing table cover. Gotta love self-satisfied girls of all ages.
Alan Schmierer