[GreenKeys] just my luck

[W2HX]

I appreciate the concern. I think she was more mad at me than frightened. I think she thought I was trying to be funny since I was orchestrating everything. Anyhow. I will explain it all to her tomorrow and I am sure she'll be back.
73 Eugene W2HX

From: Paul Heller [mailto:paul0926 at comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 9:25 PM
To: W2HX
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] just my luck

Ouch. Terrible timing. Your email made my stomach crawl.

The odd thing is that the same would probably happen if you turned on the television, maybe with a worse report or more graphic. But on the other hand, her attention span was so focused on the teletype with excitement and expectation that those words were the worst one that could come up.  I'm sorry this happened, Eugene.

Try autostart. Have her type a message in, and then watch it some out a bit later. Magic.

Maybe we have Tom run a kid friendly overstrike picture for her.

As for how to explain our world to an 11 year old.... I'm not sure.

Paul


On Mar 2, 2014, at 6:51 PM, W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com<mailto:w2hx at w2hx.com>> wrote:


Whilst trying to entertain my 11 year old daughter, I wanted to enthrall her by showing her the M28 running from ITTY.  So I turned everything on and what comes over the wire? "HAPP STABBED HIS PARENTS TO DEATH IN THEIR HOME..." She ran out crying and I had to answer to the XYL. Talk about timing!

Oh well, maybe my son will be interested in the TTYs instead. :(

73 Eugene W2HX

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