Dictionary, please

What are your favorite emojis?

GenX are not digital natives and I don’t think we use emojis correctly a lot of the time, but personally, I like them. So could we please have a dictionary of their intended meanings? (Nevermind the hidden meanings)

My son played lacrosse for years, so it was exciting when they finally came out with 🥍 (no dictionary required)

But like what the heck is this supposed to be 🧫 ?

And what does this mean 🫡 ?

And why is there still no real marijuana emoji?? (Broccoli 🥦 is stupid.)

Also, our aging eyes are getting bad so it’s hard to actually make them out without very strong readers.

But my main complaint is the lack of a dictionary that goes with them. I want to be able to hold my finger on one and have words or a voice tell me what I’m looking at and what it’s supposed to mean.

So yeah, I’m clearly old.

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IT guys in the family

Daily writing prompt
Write about your first computer.

My father bought the family an early computer/word processor in the mid-80s. (He was an engineer and always one of the first to embrace technology.) It had no hard drive. It used disks. He convinced me to write a 20-page college term paper on it and somehow I deleted the entire thing, before I could print it out. My work could not be retrieved. I was so mad. I didn’t use computers again for years. I wrote all my remaining papers for college by hand or typed them on a typewriter (or both).

After I met my husband in the early 1990s, he became my IT guy. I remember I was very suspicious of any and all new technology (like e-mail) and had to be convinced that I would not lose my work.

The culprit looked something like this.