Failing that, a spares kit for my old one.
Posted on 07/22/2011 5:55:13 PM PDT by Justaham
There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.
That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …
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I did. You mixed the cakes with a tablespoon of water. My mom said they tasted terrible. But I can still taste them, thinking of them, and I loved them!
We also had a “creepy crawlers”. “A thingmaker set, and electric plug. Now pour plastigoop, into the mold...”
Kids didn’t have everything then. I remember setting it up and all the neighborhood kids would come over and pick their colors and we would all pick a bug on each metal tray (horrors! hot metal!) and each end up with a bug.
That was one popular toy.
That wasn't dust, it was the wearing down of the contacts on the cartridge interrupting the connection.
The most important thing that our kids will never know:
Freedom
Instead, they will have their physical wants satisfied by the government. They’ll trade their Freedom for food, for shelter, for health care, for cellphones and internet.
And it’ll be us, in our old age, talking about how Americans could say what we wanted to say without repercussion. How Americans could do just about anything without the government regulating it out of existance.
:-(
I’ve found just the opposite...I’ve taken a destroyed wall wart in before and the young gent who worked the counter took the time to help me figure out what universal replacement would be the correct type and found the correct tip, even plugged it into my device to test on the spot, made sure it fit and powered up. I couldn’t have been happier with the service!
You may win. I remember as a kid we sure didn't have a lot of extra money. Two, maybe three times during my childhood my mom told me I could pick out a one-book item from the Green Stamp catalog. Once it was my birthday - I got a toy airplane kit.
I have multiple degrees in chemistry and I have never used a slide rule either.
Turntable are for playing records.
They are not musical instruments.
Playing Guitar hero does not teach you to play any musical instrument.
Bowling is actually a real game that we once played at a Bowling ally and, you could smoke there.
Texting is really kind of stupid.
“Feathering” an accelerator pedal on a carburated cold gasoline engine.
Federal Reserve Notes.
White people labored at contruction sites too.
Failing that, a spares kit for my old one.
“Making soap at home on the back porch.”
Great Grandma used to give me a box for Christmas every year.
I haven’t felt that clean in the 15 years since she left us.
She was a dustbowl refugee. Very self sufficiant.
Aw yes Shalinskys on the corner of Gibbs and 34th St in Upper Argentine/Turner. I remember that drug store!
I live about 2 minutes from there at 18th St Expresway and the Kansas River.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
bumping for later, because I’m old, and I remember this stuff.
How about “spoolies” to curl your hair?
Morse code.
Comments:
9. Vinyl records, some say, have better audio quality, so they may stick around to some degree.
18. Wires? They’ll always be around to some degree.
38. I still have a road atlas, it’s nice for my wife to look at as I drive to get a bigger “overview” than the GPS screen can show, also, it’s good for alternate routes when my Garmin is being stupid.
62. See above. Many GPS units don’t have an “avoid the ghetto” or “get me the hell out of this construction/traffic nightmare” option.
70. We still do this - but once the kids are older they’ll probably have their own sources.
92. Some people prefer checks. They’re still easier to “prove payment” on than other methods in some cases...
I probably haven’t manually unlocked a car door since around 1999...
I remember those too, and from the same time period.
Knowledgeable employees at places like this are tough nowadays, anyone smart enough to know their sh*t isn’t satisfied with the $9/hr that the store will pay them.
Well, that was true until the Obama Economy came into full swing...
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