rubin carter checks his email all the time
september 13, 2004 @
22:56
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So tonight I was talking with a couple of people who went down to Florida with the Red Cross to help out in the aftermath of Hurricane Charlene or whatever. They told a bunch of crazy stories, but my favorite was the one about how the Red Cross has invested tons of money in these super fancy, super rugged laptop computers for people to take out in the field.
The funny part isn't that they spent a bunch of blood money (ha!) on technology - I'm all for the paperless office - it's that so many of their volunteers are retired geezers who are totally computer illiterate.
"Hi, I'm Dorothy. I'm here to help with the hurricane."
"Great, here's your laptop. When you return this afternoon, log into our local domain with the password 'florida' and upload your case files to the server."
"Who logs who in the what now?"
And so on.
Give it 20 years. Once the Children of the Computer Age start to retire and look for something to do in their spare time, those laptops will be the picture of efficiency. They'll be slow and obsolete by then, sure, but that's not the point.
barbara thought:
I'm Italian and I don't speak English very well so I'm not sure if you can help me, but I'd like to know an Email Address of Rubin Carter .
Thank you very much!
Sonia thought:
Mr.Rubin Hurricane Carter Do you remember when you lived in Paterson New Jersey, Alexzander and Bruna Vinogradove your landlords, and Theadora was born the same day there son Ivan was. They also hid your wife at the house so that they would stop going after your wife and kids. Well Alexzander and Bruna are my grandparents they have told me so much about you then your movie came out and I have been trying to get a hold of you for years my grandfather would love to see you if you can just e-mail me back as soon as possible. thanks Sonia