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Re: [at-l] Cyber-challenged parents
A quite confused Kristin must ask...ther was life before computers? ;)
Haha...
The crazy clipless girl rides again...(well, so far on road)
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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 hopefl@juno.com wrote:
> Kids! I can't believe the way they talk about us. Not so long ago I was
> berating my computer when Deluge suggests that the problem might actually
> be ME! Now, how do you like that? We teach them to read and write, teach
> them to backpack, send them to college (to be a civil engineer, and make
> big bucks, so I can mooch off him for the rest of my life) and we get no
> respect.
>
> Some weeks ago, Deluge ask me to help him with a calculus problem. I dug
> out my old sliderule and he goes ballistic. "What is it with you old
> dudes? Dr. So-n-so (Principles of Engineering) also uses a sliderule. He
> hates calculators!" Well, I pointed out to him that we sent men to the
> moon, long before the TI-86 was born, using sliderules. He rolled his
> eyes and retorted, "No wonder it took so long." Hopeful
>
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