Right here. I also know how to use a compass, and abacus, and a slide rule.
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I started reading a book once on celestial navigation.
I understood the first few chapters which might have placed me in the right hemisphere, but perhaps not the right ocean.
But then it got really complicated and I gave up.
I understood the first few chapters which might have placed me in the right hemisphere, but perhaps not the right ocean.
But then it got really complicated and I gave up.
The cashier could have been more discreet, and could have offered you a pack of Teflon.
I own a proper compass, and an abacus, and a good slide rule. My old friend Jack was an expert using each one. I played with them a little a put them away.
I’ve always wanted a good sextant and also a surveyor’s level and transit. But I know I don’t have the discipline to learn them well enough to rely on myself.
My wife and I each have a late model Garmin navigator.
You can say Hey, Garmin and speak an address and the thing will guide you right there to the United States Postal Service address.
Just imagine how much better navigators the USPS has.
Our generation built that.
Just imagine how much better the next generation will build on our accomplishments.
I go to the post office when I want stamps.
What I was thinking too... I'm technically a younger boomer, but I identify more with Generation X than boomers. I notice while going to the grocery, buying gas, or running errands frequent examples of entitled boomers demanding service in a way that makes them seem like nasty jerks. Make us look pretty bad to young people and only reinforces the "OK Boomer" meme.
NOT SAYING that @bullet08 meets this generalization.
I had to show a younger person how to fill out a check. They had never written a check.
And don't get me started on driving a manual transmission vehicle. That's an anti-theft device these days.
And don't get me started on driving a manual transmission vehicle. That's an anti-theft device these days.
I don't get the anti-boomer sentiment. "Hey kids, look, we built you the Internet...." (public stoning commences).
In many cases we are thought to be as irrelevant now as many boomers perceived their parents to be. I think it's a normal state of affairs between generations.
To be fair I'm 34 and I've had to fill out exactly five checks in my adult memory, so I double check online to make sure I'm doing it right lol.
Manuals are fun but I can't text and drive if I have to watch the gearshift (I kid I kid)
Similarity is not equivalence.
The rate of change is exponential.
Until a handful of generations ago---and for two million years---technology didn't change fast enough for a human lifespan to mean anything. It was the same the day a person died as it had been the day he was born. Shared experience between generations was the fabric that connected societies.
Today, fundamental things are changing every few years, so there is less shared experience between generations.
(It's only gonna get worse, too. AI is where things went asymptotic on the y axis. Hold on.)
I remember being 16 years old in the mid 70's working at my uncles hardware store (when every small town had one). We sold decorative asbestos sheets for under & behind stoves . Rolls of asbestos paper for wrapping stove pipe
And every person who complained about bugs in their garden were sold paste board cans of Chlordane .
And every person who complained about bugs in their garden were sold paste board cans of Chlordane .
Nothing to do with understanding and tolerating people with different desires to live their lives way they want to.Because Humansville had a post office with a 65674 zip code I had the privilege of attending a public school where every single student (that was able) read on a 12th grade level by the time we entered seventh grade. Most of us read on a college level by then.
This allowed Miss Charlotte, our seventh grade teacher, to teach us about what then was termed hermaphroditism , now termed intersex.
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Hermaphroditism refers to the condition where an organism possesses both male and female reproductive organs. This can involve the simultaneous presence of both functional reproductive systems (simultaneous hermaphroditism) or the development and function of each system at different life stages (sequential hermaphroditism). In humans, the term "hermaphrodite" is considered outdated and stigmatizing, and the preferred term is "intersex".
True hermaphroditism: an analytic review with a report of 3 new cases - PubMed
Three new cases of true hermaphroditism are described: a 14-year-old patient with a testis on one side and an ovotestis on the other side and a 11-year-old patient as well as a 6-year-old patient both with an ovary on the one side and an ovotestis on the other side. Twenty-four cases, which were...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Every member of the Board of Education was a practicing, devout, observant Christian married to a beautiful college graduate who demanded their children be educated so they could move to a better zip code.
There were two intersex people in our Humansville Christian Church I served communion to three times a week.
If study of that condition allows such people to live better lives, and gain acceptance, then it’s another good example of how the world keeps on progressing up from our caves.
Without a zip code, try getting a job or a degree or a bank account or anything where you are more than a day laborer in the fields of those who have zip codes.
You can’t shop online, without a zip code.
A boy who decided he is a girl, can not get pregnant. Most intersex can't reproduce. It's just a fact. To spend tax payers money to study those "issues" is a simple waste.
I mean, if someone decided s/he is a platypus, you think he or she can lay an egg? Sure they can believe they could. They can even shove an egg up their arse and pop it out. But is that the same as biologically producing an egg? There are people who thinks it's possible and wants to use tax money to investigate.
I seriously doubt these people will earn their way into a better zoning area or zip code.
The two intersex persons in our church were attracted to each other.
I watched one Sunday as the male came up to my father and said—-
Brufe Adams you is the luckiest man in Humansville to get to sweep with Wois Adams! She’s the purtiest woman in town!
My Daddy said Lois is pretty, but not any prettier than Darlene.
And Jimmy Joe said you is right, she’s the second prettiest woman in Humansville after Darwene!.
Anybody who claims an intersex person is to be celebrated, is only a little better than one who despises them.
It’s a pitiful abnormality.
And extremely rare.
People do not and never will change. A certain tiny percentage of people will be and always have been born insersex.
What I miss, is actual old time devout, observant, practicing Christians like my father, who was Superintendent of the Elders at church and President of the local school board.
We used to have actual Christian songs on the radio, years ago.
Tommy’s Doll
Earnest Tubb 1969
And all of the American dream, is to give your children a better education so they’ll have a better life than you had, in a better zip code.
My father only had an eighth grade education.
But, it was a Scottish Campbellite eighth grade education.
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and more horrendous experience for starting out chauffeurs is that scary Eaton Fuller 13 speed manual gear boxes installed on the heavy trucks
We operate learning center. Have a new student who goes to a private school, junior high, and writes in a beautiful cursive handwriting. My wife and I, we learned cursive from public schools way back when. My handwriting is a crap, but I can still read cursive. My kids do know how to write and read cursive because my older son loves fountain pens. Younger one does whatever older one does, and won't stop until he's better at it.
Hired a new highschool student as a grader. Notice that she won't grade new student's worksheets. The high school girl can't read cursive.
I guess with fewer and fewer people writing anything nowadays, cursive isn't necessary. But it is a beautiful thing to not teach our new generations.
Things get even crazier with the heavy stuff.
I spent a year driving 110 foot long, 155,000 pound B-Trains with a 23 speed transmission.
In Wyoming mountains.
In the winter.
On state highways and private roads (which can have more than twice the slope of an Interstate).
The unsynchronized transmission looked like this (plus four reverse gears):
I popped a turbocharger once from (ironically) shifting too fast, but never missed a shift going up a hill. (That meant coming to a full stop and crawling at 2 mph for a mile or more in the lowest low.)
Fun times
Fountain pens rule
I have a pilot fountain pen with a super extra fine gold falcon nib, and a Lamy. I fill mine with brown ink. The youngsters I work with just roll their eyes at me and my fountain pen, then they go back to playing Magic The gathering. (True Story)