Skype Hype

We have successfully made several video phone calls over the internet using Skype. A few days ago, the girls spent over half an hour talking to some dear friends back in Chicago. For forty minutes they talked face-to-face about everything and nothing. It was great. The girls actually walked the laptop around the apartment giving a virtual tour.

Total cost for a 43-minute video conference? Zero dollars.

You gotta love technology and innovation.

Didn’t we used to dream about these things when we watched The Jetsons on Saturday morning cartoons?
It was worth the thirty-year wait. I have seen the future . . . and it is pretty cool.

Now if only somebody could get to work on those flying cars we were all promised.

-Jack

Oh, but if you’re not careful, your Skype video calls go something like this:

“Hi . . . oops, hey you’re frozen . . . Can you see me? I can’t see . . . Oh, hold on a sec . . . oh, there you are. Oh never mind . . . Hold on . . . I’m going to try something here . . . ahh, you’re frozen again . . .can you see me? Oh you just went black. Okay, hey . . . I can see you. There you are . . . Oops, you’re frozen again . . .”