Holland America Expanding Digital Workshops Even MORE! (Funny)

[robsvacation]

Groan Alert, satire ahead:

News Release, May 23, 2009

With the Digital Workshops on Holland American being wildly more popular than anticipated (My Camera, which way is up? being particular well attended) Holland American is pleased to announce even more classes for our guests:

Txt Msg 101
Laptops 101: Why if you need this class you should buy an Apple
Covering your tracks: How to make sure your wife doesn’t know where you’ve been online
App-appolooza: You spent $299 for your Iphone, now do something useful with it
Lost, and not the TV show: How to backup your computer
Guess what? No one cares: What is Twitter and why has even Ophra stopped using it
Facebook 101: How to make the people you don’t want to talk to think you care
Facebook 201: Why you should think twice about posting those pictures from Carlos and Charlie’s
Facebook 301: It’s ok to say no, why not everyone needs to be your friend (group hugs to follow the class)
MySpace: why you’re too old for it (Hint, you’re on Holland America)
Safe Surfin’: why internet cafe computers are dirty and no place to do online banking
Right Click 101: Guess what? That other button does something!
Outside 101: Group trip to the pool deck to see things to do other than technology classes

[TampaMike]

Clever, but how would a typical HAL passenger find this humorous?

Is there something wrong with being mature and not tech savy?

Your profile indicates Carnival, NCL and RCI are your favorite cruise lines. Would it be humorous for a class held onboard those ships: "How technology destroys social skills and intrudes on the public" or how about "Face your FEAR: interact with a human".


Just offering the flip side of the coin.

[ginger and professor]

We were on the Eurodam and attended several of the workshops. They were well attended and the instructor was patient and well versed. These were based on windows format. It quickly became evident that even simple downloads and operations are slow and clumsy on the pc, compared to apple.

[JimVrhovac]

Microsoft supplies the equipment and pays the salary of the instructors. Why would they use apple computers.

Just got off the Veendam and the classes were great and the downloads were at a good speed. If you are talking about internet downloads it is the connection that is the problem. It is S L O W.

Ruth & Jim

[lovebug33]

Maybe I'm the only one, but I found these funny. You do not have to be of an older age to do silly things with a computer. I am the backup computer girl at work when the real guy is gone. A teacher, in her early 20's, came to me in a panic because her printer wouldn't work and report cards were due in. Yeah, it had gotten unplugged! She looked at me like I was a goddess or something. I deal with these kind of things all the time! I even do things like this, too.

[Nutrioso]

I found robsvacation's post quite funny! I love satire and irony. ----Penny

[fantasmic2tek]

Maybe I'm the only one, but I found these funny. You do not have to be of an older age to do silly things with a computer. I am the backup computer girl at work when the real guy is gone. A teacher, in her early 20's, came to me in a panic because her printer wouldn't work and report cards were due in. Yeah, it had gotten unplugged! She looked at me like I was a goddess or something. I deal with these kind of things all the time! I even do things like this, too.

Then you might find this amusing lovebug33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZQma8t6no4