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To: RosieCotton

Far out. :-)

I think that's actually pretty cool. I'm a closet luddite too. Having grown up in accounting during the days of pencils, five-column paper and green eye-shades, I've never been convinced that computers and software ended up doing us any real favors. But don't tell anybody I work for. :-)

[sigh]

There's a SOX thread I'm trying to avoid for the moment. I've written a reply or two that I've already had to just abandon because I devolved into usage of something less than the Queen's english.

Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

[sip]

Dammit. :-)


7,109 posted on 11/30/2006 9:43:24 PM PST by Ramius ([sip])
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To: Ramius

It's fascinating to me that that piece of technology which is, at a guess, forty years old or thereabouts...still does *exactly* what it was meant to do. That in spite of the fact that it's probably been twenty years since anyone used it much. Just needed a little elbow grease.

Whereas...this computer will be on a dustheap in probably less than ten years.

We live in a high-speed disposable world, and though I love the Internet and all...well, I like having a few old things from a slower time. ;-) Hence my fountain pens, and now this old beater of a typewriter.

So...SOX wars, huh? I'll have to go spy...


7,110 posted on 11/30/2006 10:17:12 PM PST by RosieCotton (NaNoWriMo: DONE!!! 50,000 words PASSED!)
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