If somebody told me a story of a person who owned a photographic camera for 6 years before discovering that the big and very visible picture of a film camera on top of it meant that the camera could actually shoot motion film, I’d think they were exaggerating.
If they told me that the camera’s owner would only discover its capacity to shoot motion film after accidentally pressing the button and then staring at the recording in mute amazement for 20 minutes, I’d discard the story as unrealistic.
If they added that this person had a PhD and was considered very smart by their students and colleagues, I’d think this was a conspiracy to denigrate academics.
If they added that it was a woman, I’d decide that these were anti-woman ideologues who promote the idea that women are useless with technology.
If they said that this person was a Ukrainian, I’d dismiss the story as yet another attempt to present Ukrainians as simple-minded country yokels.
In short, I would have never believed the story if it hadn’t happened to me.
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You are after all a Hispanist, not a Technology to Human Interface Interpretation Specialist. Seriously, anyone who has not done such a thing is probably only pretending to be a professor. Absent mindedness is a professional hazard.
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Thank you! I feel better now.
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Here’s my camera story. It’s a thing I keep doing. I have this old Canon AE-1 (it’s a film camera not a digital), and I’ll take off my glasses to peer at the tiny markings on the lens and whatnot — because I need new glasses, they don’t work for reading any more — and then I’ll start looking through the camera’s viewfinder and try to focus and realize that I can’t see anything properly because it’s all fuzzy no matter how I turn the focus ring, and I’ll think “Oh no, this lens I bought on Ebay has gone bad mysteriously or maybe the camera is broken or the battery is dead”–
–And then I’ll realize all this time I forgot to put my glasses back on.
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I almost peer myself with laughter. I’m glad I’m not alone!
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Cameras are small, intricate, beautiful machines that the gods gave us to drive us mad.
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I’ve done almost exactly that! 🙂 And I’m not even a professor yet… (one day…)
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Ah, you’ve got the most important qualification down. 🙂 Welcome to the club!
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