Posted on 01/12/2006 8:39:35 AM PST by dhls
Back in the day when people still had to know how to use non-computerized references! And indexes!
And find that little exchange-rate table, which was *never* in the same place in the Investing section :-).
I empathize...I had the worst headache yesterday...and with the recent memory of how bad it can hurt, I offer you my sympathies...
LOL!
Thanks for the laugh! I need it today...
This one started on the 5th...a Sunday. I can't seem to shake it.
Young people today don't really know what it was like going on a resource safari back in the old days...never knowing what you would find...using other people's footnotes to lead you on to more information...cussing under your breath at the lack of precision in some of the indexes, and at the lack of compassion at the cataloger who didn't use your keywords!
I have a currency exchange box on my home page...(Not the bio page here.)
It's interesting to watch it fluctuate.
Poor FAce! Mine is just from a flareup of my sinuses...the infection is being stubborn. Are you sure it's a migraine, and not something else causing it...that's a long time for even a migraine....
Yes, my kids were amazed at how much information is in the footnotes, bibliography, etc. The computerized library catalog spoiled them!
It's really annoying when you track down a source and it's in a foreign language, though! I'm reading a book now where half the sources are in French, which limits my opportunities for further reading. I can get through a poem or a brief news story in French, but not a history book!
Yes, it is. My mom does investments for my brother (the one in Europe), so she's always watching the exchange rates. It irritates her when she visits us that we don't have cable, so she can't watch CNBC :-).
I studied Latin because I was tired of all the latin footnotes I would find in history books. Took a while to finally get classes on it, though. I wanted to take it in 8th grade, moved to a different school that didn't teach it. I tried to take it in 9th grade, but the Latin teacher became a full time counselor. I finally took a couple of semesters of it in college, years later. But in the meanwhile, I studied French...about 6 years in all. I am not fluent. I can muddle through short passages. I tend to read all the verbs in my head like they were simple past tense....;0)
I began having migraines when I was eight years old (my son began to get them when he was nine) and for years, I never knew if I had one headache that lasted seven days or seven headaches of a day each. The longest up to now was 10 days.
I don't get them often, now, but they seem to make up for the infrequency by their duration.
I do the same with Spanish, which I studied for 10 years in junior high, high school, and college. I was fluent at one point, but after so many years away from the southwest, I've really lost it.
hugs to you...
I found that with the latin, french and 1 semester of spanish that I can often muddle through Italian...which actually suprised me.
Italian looks very similar to Spanish and French.
Yeah.
The pouty lips and the outraged "GRRRR!" sound that comes forth is awfully hysterical.
Especially when baby has a bubble land on their nose and pop.
I'm not here.
Honest.
Yes.
Or Man eating MRE found.
Brings to mind all sorts of horrible things.
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