Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Question

I may be old, but JCM is only about three years younger than me. He had it right with these lyrics.

I wonder if he has an i-phone -- and if he knows how to use all the features.

We are not supposed to be able to bring phones into work with cameras or recorders. Our big company had to capitulate. We need wireless phones, and we need them at our desks. But, virtually no phones exist today without all these features.

Maybe a Cricket -- but those are for really old people!

Catman, I've always liked your posts but this one ranks. I don't think the world will ever be as simple as it used to be and I actually pity my grandkids. Perhaps someday common sense will once again be common.

Ken, the last time I had to buy a new cell phone I had to explain to the nice lady that I only wanted one that would receive and make phone calls. It has a camera that I've never used and probably won't use. I don't text or tweet. I have a new digital camera that I never take with me.

My Dad worked for Bell Helicopter. Obviously, that was a long time ago. They had two types of Engineers; Professional and Practical. The Professional Engineers were degreed and the Practical ones generally weren't. Anytime the Pro types came up with a new idea, they had to run it by the old guys to get their blessing. The objective was to find out if it had been tried before and what happened in the past. Quite often the new idea had to be modified or even scrapped. Helicopters used to be pretty notorious for falling to earth. They shook a lot and that ain't real good when you're upstairs.

I'm not knocking Education or new ideas. I have a whole lot more formal education than I have ever used or can remember. Want to know how to buy and sell Countries or Continents? I took a couple of classes in that and made A's. I've never even bought or sold a town. However, at the time, it seemed like a good idea to know that stuff.

One of my Grandaughters once asked me about fighting Indians. My Mother laughed and said that I got a lot of knots on my head from that and beer was usually involved. Heck, they lived on a neighboring farm and we were pretty good friends.

Yeah, I'm getting old. I have no use for a laptop with a keyboard that has been micro sized. Even with my bifocals on, I fat finger the keys. I just gave a Grandson my laptop and, for some reason, my Wife says I have to buy another one. I probably will.

I got into programming computers in the 60's. It had 4K of memory and took up a pretty good chunk of a room. We had no idea that technology would progress to where it is today and most of it is good. However, a lot of it is marketing driven so we can do things that we didn't know we wanted to do.

DD1, so you remember punch cards for computers?

Are you kidding? DD1 used an abacus until he was 40!

Lol

The first DP course I ever took (1964) was at Washington University in St. Louis. It was called "Principles of Punched Card Data Processing". I've been confused ever since.

Bing

At least He was accurate!

Sounds like a course that Florida voters should have been required to take back in the days of the hanging and dimpled chad!

Scott, that was the Hollerith coding system. Yep, I still know it. Actually, I guess I was one of the early computer pioneers. I've written operating systems and compilers but they sure didn't work very well. They used to call us mad scientists and we really weren't trusted that much.

A lot of things, actually most things, really are better. CNC machines have created tolerances that were unimagined "back in the day". Somewhere around here I have a reloading manual from the 50's. The Author, Elmer Keith I believe, said that is was impossible for manufacturing to create cartridge brass with close concentricity. That's no longer much of a problem and most things really do fit better.

Medicine has advanced a lot. Bing and I are polio survivors but most victims, mostly children, didn't make it. Now, it and a lot more viruses have been just about eliminated. We live longer and better now. At 68, I enjoy health that was unimagined in my Grandparents time.

I remember my Grandfather building the outhouse and how happy we were. I prefer the world of indoor plumbing and really like the idea of flush toilets. I like air conditioning too.

No way I want to go back to the "good old days". However, I still like the idea of a handshake in lieu of a contract.

Word, Guvnor. Word.

I miss dimming my headlights with my left toe!!!

"No way I want to go back to the "good old days". However, I still like the idea of a handshake in lieu of a contract."

Don't get any better than that DD1. True honor and integrity exist at that moment, if you are looking each other straight in the eye. Something you could be at peace with!

The drawback is, that Todd would have to start chasing ambulances

Integrity is the only thing a man ever really owns.

" I don't own the clothes I'm wearin" Gregg Allman 1970

Heck, I already do a little bit of that! And sometimes I even catch 'em!