Google, then Wikipedia, then various other sources in art, music, foreighn languages, mainly Italian, French, Japanese, Russian and at least 13-15 newspapers and scientific journals.
I use the translator …. I have a youku account that I use everyday …. I speak with Chinese persons everyday …. and you have no idea what the value of that is.
TRYIT ….
And I am a link junkie …. I am a sucker for a good link!
I recently took part in a technical training together with students that were up to seven years my junior. And still I had graduated eight to nine years before them. Don’t ask me how that was possible. ;)
But they all had computer lessons that I never dreamed of considering that when I graduated hardly anyone even KNEW the internet and we had to do all our homework ourselves.
Every time we had a new topic that I had never heard of before I googled everything. And then I used wikipedia to get an overview over the topic. But hey, now I know eight or nine programming and scripting languages. =D
Hands down Google….. how I wish I had access to this when I worked as a reference library tech as a teenager! I spent hours researching things that now take moments.
I’m a Googler. I try to visit at least once a day to see the daily graphics. I’ve learned about some obscure “holidays” because my interest was piqued by their altered logo.
Now that I am back in college, I find the links and internet resources referrenced by my textbooks are lifesavers. I visit lots of those. (I suppose I, too, am a link junkie.)
I remember hours spent at the library (not to mention the time to get there and get back home) working on term papers in high school. For those with similar memories… think about the feel of those well-worn cards in the card catalog. Can you remember the aging cards creating yellowed stripes in the heavy wooden drawers? It was like a geological timeline.
I have the day off today. Maybe I should revisit my childhood library instead of Googling….
Wikipedia, IMDb (movie database), Google
- and then NY Times incl. topical blogs, NPR, PBS, BBC and several European magazines, then the Strand Bookstore and Barnes & Noble (seem to be my most visited sites…) - and yes, wouldn’t know what to do without Dictionary/Thesaurus widget on MacBook
oh, it’s you my dear! (getting confused with the name changes, am not on here enough to keep track…)
… glad you like the IMDb (gossipy place, but great for research…)
btw: hope this finds you well? things going alright?
Yes, Ulla … I am well …. hangin’ in there …. I was tryin’ to dodge him by changing my name …. I don’t care anymore …. too many people watchin’ him if you know what I mean …. It is better to on the radar …. if something happened to me then someone might come lookin’ for me … does that make any sense? I realized that him taking away my voice was letting him win one more battle …. I laid low for about a week … OMG, I thought I was gonna’ die …. that felt worse … not being able to talk or be heard …
Yeah, well, I am here and I ain’t goin’ no where but up!
Alle werden auch bald. Seien Sie glücklich für mich und wissen, dass ich stark.
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