At 11:00 AM +0100 8/28/08, Ford, Mike wrote:
On 27 August 2008 18:45, Jay Blanchard advised:
tedd-o has been around for a long time and has witnessed the evolution
of said blow-ups dolls enough to know when he sees quality, form and
function.
I think I may be the second oldest regular on the
list....tedd and I had
that discussion once before. So I am stuck neither in the
toolbox or the
crayon box.
H'mm -- I think I might be competing in the "golden oldies" category,
too, although from comments made on the list I think tedd at least beats
me. I guess I'm a bit of a rusty scalpel these days (used to be good at
fixing other people's problems / never seen the point(!) of blow-ups) --
so does that put me in an alternative toolbox??! ;)
Cheers!
Mike
I'm really not that old, I wrote my first line of code in college in
1965 -- I even remember the problem. It was how long a swimming pool
would take to drain to a trickle with the drain open and a garden
hose filling it. Of course, we were given all the data to solve it,
but it was more an adventure in keypunching than programming.
Considering that I never took a deferment for college, I was drafted
in 1966. I didn't even know what Vietnam was -- at the time.
In my younger days growing up as a hillbilly in the Ozarks of
Missouri, I remember talking to old men who were alive during the
Civil War -- that kind of puts a span of time on things, huh?
An interesting side note -- in the 5th grade (in the Ozarks), we were
taught how to make a still. It was known that a few of us would
actually go into the business and the school didn't want us to make
go-blind stuff -- you see, all of the school board drank.
I'm not that old, but I've seen more than most.
Cheers,
tedd
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