{"id":2065,"date":"2020-09-09T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:38:55","slug":"todays-virtual-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"Today’s (Virtual) Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our grandkids started the new school year this week \u2014 well, at least virtually<\/em>. Kids, like a lot of people, have taken up residence in virtual worlds lately. Although virtual wasn\u2019t a foreign word to me, since the virus outbreak, it is now appearing as a prefix to almost anything you can think of to describe a previous physical activity now being delivered by \u201celectronic\u201d means. Much, or most, of this virtuality has been because of the technical tools available. Zoom is another word that has taken on new meaning\u2026 now most people think of Zoom as the online meeting tool that people rely on for \u201cvirtual\u201d meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, the popularity of Zoom has spawned another brand new word \u2014 Zoombombing, which is the practice of people hacking into online Zoom meetings to disrupt them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was reminded by the start of schools how the word virtual is being used \u201cvirtually\u201d everywhere and that was what I intended to comment on today. But since we\u2019re on the subject of new words, a new one (to me) popped up just the other day. Actually, I\u2019m kind of fond of it \u2014 the word is Covidiot. It\u2019s a new term used to describe anyone doing stupid things during the current pandemic, whether it\u2019s stockpiling toilet paper or ignoring official guidance over how to behave to avoid spreading the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So speaking for one of us that have taken up residence in a virtual world, I\u2019m looking forward to all the new words that\u2019ll appear when we get back in the real world. I hope our grandkids get all virtual A\u2019s in school this year.
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