Posted on 12/16/2020 3:28:04 PM PST by blam
One of my refrigerator/freezers was purchased in Nov 1965 & it still works just fine.
2 others - ref/freezer & upright freezer are 1972 pair.Still good.
NOT a single “smart’ item in the house-—except Me.
#28 Secondhand Lions
GARTH: Planning your next move?
Walter nods. Studies his map.
GARTH: Where you figure on going?
WALTER: Here. Area code 406... Montana.
GARTH: Why Montana?
WALTER: Their license plates say “Big Sky Country”.
Hub and Garth nod. It’s a good choice.
GARTH: Look kid. We know you got your heart set on Montana, but it’s late... Hub, help me out here.
HUB: Why? Sounds like his mind’s made up. Good luck in Montana, kid!
Hub stands to go; Garth yanks him back down.
GARTH: We got better maps than that one, back at the house. Right Hub?
HUB: A man needs a good map, that’s for sure....
All nod, all agree on the importance of good maps.
Walter stands. Consults his map, orients himself.
WALTER: I should get going. Which way is north?
Heh heh, at least I can remember 867-5309.
Computers are stupid.
Think about, you’ve got binary code with a billion 0s and 1s, and if just one of those is wrong, the computer won’t know what to do.
Source Unknown: Computer Haiku
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
Windows crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
File not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring new ink cartridges.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.
ROFL!! Thankfully, I haven’t ever missed it 🤪
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“I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Drive Home. Rethinking… a lot right now,”
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I’ve done quite well with mechanical wall switches wired directly to my circuit breaker panel. Never saw a need to ‘improve’ this ‘technology’.
“I would rather have K-12 students learning and passing tests on map reading and map making than having them depend on the “knowledge” that some computer GPS app/program/system will always show them the way.”
I work with a lot of millennials, so I make it a point to explain to them what a ‘map’ is, if I bring it up in a discussion. I tell them it’s like a zoomed-out GPS printout without the location of the car shown. Then they seem to get the idea, although they do cringe at the thought of people having to once use them to get around.
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