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Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 15:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 15:28:15 GMT -5
Nothing like being free as the breeze, huh?
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Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 15:30:32 GMT -5
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Post by BobWilliston on Aug 17, 2014 16:03:23 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators.
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Aug 17, 2014 17:30:28 GMT -5
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Post by snow on Aug 17, 2014 17:30:28 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators. Ha, I had to do survey notes without one for awhile. Then when we got a computer I had to use Fortran and then Basic to enter the survey elevations so we could plot them on a blueprint for the oil company. We are probably the last generation that can do Math in their head lol.
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Aug 17, 2014 17:56:46 GMT -5
Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 17:56:46 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators. Well, I can remember using slide rules in high school and college back in the 1960's. Those were the days, huh?
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Aug 17, 2014 18:02:01 GMT -5
Post by BobWilliston on Aug 17, 2014 18:02:01 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators. Well, I can remember using slide rules in high school and college back in the 1960's. Those were the days, huh? I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head.
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Aug 17, 2014 18:06:59 GMT -5
Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 18:06:59 GMT -5
Well, I can remember using slide rules in high school and college back in the 1960's. Those were the days, huh? I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head. I hated them, too, and wonder how I ever made it through Trig. using those things. Kids are so lucky today to not have to be bothered with these old methods of doing math calculations.
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Aug 17, 2014 18:09:37 GMT -5
Post by BobWilliston on Aug 17, 2014 18:09:37 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators. Ha, I had to do survey notes without one for awhile. Then when we got a computer I had to use Fortran and then Basic to enter the survey elevations so we could plot them on a blueprint for the oil company. We are probably the last generation that can do Math in their head lol. My introduction to computer programming was at Université Laval. Computer terminology is creative enough in English -- it's just as creative in French. I'll never forget the day the whole lab roared laughing when I told them that my computer didn't want to stop. It's not so funny in English, it's a lot funnier in French.
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Post by Gene on Aug 17, 2014 19:46:32 GMT -5
Well, I can remember using slide rules in high school and college back in the 1960's. Those were the days, huh? I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head. Funny -- that's the only use I could ever find for them.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:23:45 GMT -5
Post by snow on Aug 17, 2014 20:23:45 GMT -5
Ha, I had to do survey notes without one for awhile. Then when we got a computer I had to use Fortran and then Basic to enter the survey elevations so we could plot them on a blueprint for the oil company. We are probably the last generation that can do Math in their head lol. My introduction to computer programming was at Université Laval. Computer terminology is creative enough in English -- it's just as creative in French. I'll never forget the day the whole lab roared laughing when I told them that my computer didn't want to stop. It's not so funny in English, it's a lot funnier in French. LOL do tell!
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Aug 17, 2014 20:24:59 GMT -5
Post by snow on Aug 17, 2014 20:24:59 GMT -5
I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head. Funny -- that's the only use I could ever find for them. I hated them too. But then I also hated Trig. Thought it was interesting when I used it doing survey notes and it then made more sense. Had to be in context I guess.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:42:15 GMT -5
Post by BobWilliston on Aug 17, 2014 20:42:15 GMT -5
My introduction to computer programming was at Université Laval. Computer terminology is creative enough in English -- it's just as creative in French. I'll never forget the day the whole lab roared laughing when I told them that my computer didn't want to stop. It's not so funny in English, it's a lot funnier in French. LOL do tell! To them it sounded like the computer was actually doing something (computers don't DO ANYTHING but sit where you put them), so it sounded like the computer was acting up and I couldn't control it. What I should have said was the equivalent of "I don't know how to close it". Probably the most embarrassing error I made there was the day I went into the print shop and asked to have a copy of a 200 page document I had written. As I was asking to have it done, I asked if I could have it bound. It turned out that the word for "bound" sounds a lot like the word for "back up", so by changing that one word what I actually asked for was if I could make them (the pages) back up. The man looked at me like I had three heads, and I quickly corrected myself. It was so funny. I dealt with that man quite a bit, and it wasn't until I told him I was moving back to New Brunswick that we discovered English was the first language of both of us.
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Aug 17, 2014 21:12:49 GMT -5
Post by snow on Aug 17, 2014 21:12:49 GMT -5
To them it sounded like the computer was actually doing something (computers don't DO ANYTHING but sit where you put them), so it sounded like the computer was acting up and I couldn't control it. What I should have said was the equivalent of "I don't know how to close it". Probably the most embarrassing error I made there was the day I went into the print shop and asked to have a copy of a 200 page document I had written. As I was asking to have it done, I asked if I could have it bound. It turned out that the word for "bound" sounds a lot like the word for "back up", so by changing that one word what I actually asked for was if I could make them (the pages) back up. The man looked at me like I had three heads, and I quickly corrected myself. It was so funny. I dealt with that man quite a bit, and it wasn't until I told him I was moving back to New Brunswick that we discovered English was the first language of both of us. That's funny. I grew up in a French community so I learned French pretty early as kids do. However, I think I've forgotten almost all of it now. I surprised myself a few years ago though. We were in a resort outside of Cancun and they had people from everywhere all speaking different languages. So we were given colored wristbands to indicate what language we understood so the staff could speak to us in the appropriate language. My wristband indicated for French and English because it was for Canadians. One day one of the staff came up and started talking french to me and I responded in french and shocked the heck out of myself. When it finally dawned on me that I had understood and responded, I quickly told him I was English. He laughed and said 'oh really?' So I guess we just think we lose it.
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Aug 17, 2014 21:22:49 GMT -5
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Post by BobWilliston on Aug 17, 2014 21:22:49 GMT -5
To them it sounded like the computer was actually doing something (computers don't DO ANYTHING but sit where you put them), so it sounded like the computer was acting up and I couldn't control it. What I should have said was the equivalent of "I don't know how to close it". Probably the most embarrassing error I made there was the day I went into the print shop and asked to have a copy of a 200 page document I had written. As I was asking to have it done, I asked if I could have it bound. It turned out that the word for "bound" sounds a lot like the word for "back up", so by changing that one word what I actually asked for was if I could make them (the pages) back up. The man looked at me like I had three heads, and I quickly corrected myself. It was so funny. I dealt with that man quite a bit, and it wasn't until I told him I was moving back to New Brunswick that we discovered English was the first language of both of us. That's funny. I grew up in a French community so I learned French pretty early as kids do. However, I think I've forgotten almost all of it now. I surprised myself a few years ago though. We were in a resort outside of Cancun and they had people from everywhere all speaking different languages. So we were given colored wristbands to indicate what language we understood so the staff could speak to us in the appropriate language. My wristband indicated for French and English because it was for Canadians. One day one of the staff came up and started talking french to me and I responded in french and shocked the heck out of myself. When it finally dawned on me that I had understood and responded, I quickly told him I was English. He laughed and said 'oh really?' So I guess we just think we lose it. I wasn't big on auto-mechanics, so it explains this one. We had a car accident - a fellow turned left in front of me while I was attempting to pass him. So the police came and they were asking me questions, and when I explained to him that I had blown my horn but the guy kept turning, he looked at me really weirdly. Then he asked me another question and I thought it sounded funny, but I understood it, so I answered. And he looked at me really funny again. They I realized, he had tried to speak to me in English because I had used the wrong word for "horn" when it is on a car. I can't switch tracks when I get nervous.
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Aug 17, 2014 22:33:50 GMT -5
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Post by emy on Aug 17, 2014 22:33:50 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators. Did you introduce them to the slide rule?
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Aug 17, 2014 22:42:41 GMT -5
Post by BobWilliston on Aug 17, 2014 22:42:41 GMT -5
I will never forget the reaction of my students when I told them that not even calculators were available until the third year of my teaching career. One of them said, "OMG, how did you do your Math?" Say nothing about Math -- I took Trigonometry before there were calculators. Did you introduce them to the slide rule? By the time I got to them they had thrown all the slide rules away, so maybe I didn't handicap myself after all.
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Aug 17, 2014 23:19:13 GMT -5
Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 23:19:13 GMT -5
Quiz: How Old Are You Really? From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is at the end. 1.Blackjack chewing gum 2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water 3.Candy cigarettes 4.Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles Cell phone for seniors 5.Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 6.Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7.Party lines 8.Newsreels before the movie 9.P. F. Flyers 10.Butch wax 11.Telephone numbers with a word prefix (e.g., Olive - 6933) 12.Peashooters 13.Howdy Doody 14.45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records 15.S&H Green Stamps 16.Hi-fi systems 17.Metal ice trays with lever 18.Mimeograph paper 19.Blue flashbulb 20.Packards 21.Rollerskate keys 22.Cork popguns 23.Drive-in theaters 24.Studebakers 25.Washtub wringers If you remembered! 0 - 5 = You're still young 6 - 10 = You are getting older 11 - 15 = Don't tell your age 16 - 25 = You're older than you think! Be sure to pass this along -- especially to all your friends with really good memories.
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Aug 17, 2014 23:33:48 GMT -5
Post by faune on Aug 17, 2014 23:33:48 GMT -5
Here's to all of us born before 1979! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads. As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat. Cartoon: texting kids We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY? Because we were always outside playing...that's why! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.. No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. Seniors in Internet Honesty Cartoon We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse. We ate worm and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
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Post by dmmichgood on Aug 18, 2014 0:06:29 GMT -5
Quiz: How Old Are You Really? From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is at the end. 1.Blackjack chewing gum 2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water 3.Candy cigarettes 4.Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles Cell phone for seniors 5.Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 6.Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7.Party lines 8.Newsreels before the movie 9.P. F. Flyers 10.Butch wax 11.Telephone numbers with a word prefix (e.g., Olive - 6933) 12.Peashooters 13.Howdy Doody 14.45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records 15.S&H Green Stamps 16.Hi-fi systems 17.Metal ice trays with lever 18.Mimeograph paper 19.Blue flashbulb 20.Packards 21.Rollerskate keys 22.Cork popguns 23.Drive-in theaters 24.Studebakers 25.Washtub wringers If you remembered! 0 - 5 = You're still young 6 - 10 = You are getting older 11 - 15 = Don't tell your age 16 - 25 = You're older than you think! Be sure to pass this along -- especially to all your friends with really good memories.
All 25. Now does anyone still think that I'm not 82?
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Aug 18, 2014 0:37:43 GMT -5
Post by faune on Aug 18, 2014 0:37:43 GMT -5
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Aug 18, 2014 9:56:13 GMT -5
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Post by snow on Aug 18, 2014 9:56:13 GMT -5
Quiz: How Old Are You Really? From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is at the end. 1.Blackjack chewing gum 2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water 3.Candy cigarettes 4.Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles Cell phone for seniors 5.Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 6.Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7.Party lines 8.Newsreels before the movie 9.P. F. Flyers 10.Butch wax 11.Telephone numbers with a word prefix (e.g., Olive - 6933) 12.Peashooters 13.Howdy Doody 14.45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records 15.S&H Green Stamps 16.Hi-fi systems 17.Metal ice trays with lever 18.Mimeograph paper 19.Blue flashbulb 20.Packards 21.Rollerskate keys 22.Cork popguns 23.Drive-in theaters 24.Studebakers 25.Washtub wringers If you remembered! 0 - 5 = You're still young 6 - 10 = You are getting older 11 - 15 = Don't tell your age 16 - 25 = You're older than you think! Be sure to pass this along -- especially to all your friends with really good memories.
Seems like I'm older than I think! That'll explain so much...
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Aug 18, 2014 15:17:15 GMT -5
Post by rational on Aug 18, 2014 15:17:15 GMT -5
Well, I can remember using slide rules in high school and college back in the 1960's. :D Those were the days, huh? I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head. Slide rules are still the fastest way to come up with complicated estimates for determining feasibility. One should always have a Keuffel and Esser rule at the ready!
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Aug 18, 2014 15:29:31 GMT -5
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Post by matisse on Aug 18, 2014 15:29:31 GMT -5
I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head. Slide rules are still the fastest way to come up with complicated estimates for determining feasibility. One should always have a Keuffel and Esser rule at the ready! You know, I suppose, that there is a slide rule phone app!
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Aug 18, 2014 17:46:30 GMT -5
Post by snow on Aug 18, 2014 17:46:30 GMT -5
I hated slide rules. They made me scratch my head. Slide rules are still the fastest way to come up with complicated estimates for determining feasibility. One should always have a Keuffel and Esser rule at the ready! Okay, why does the word 'nerd' come to mind?? Ha!
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Post by rational on Aug 18, 2014 17:47:18 GMT -5
Slide rules are still the fastest way to come up with complicated estimates for determining feasibility. One should always have a Keuffel and Esser rule at the ready! You know, I suppose, that there is a slide rule phone app! That might be interesting - a magnified view of the end-points and the space under the curser. - so wrong on so many levels!
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Aug 18, 2014 18:01:22 GMT -5
Post by rational on Aug 18, 2014 18:01:22 GMT -5
Slide rules are still the fastest way to come up with complicated estimates for determining feasibility. One should always have a Keuffel and Esser rule at the ready! Okay, why does the word 'nerd' come to mind?? Ha! I have no idea but it still is a surprise to people to find that the answer is usually accurate to at least 2 decimal places. I suspect you are still looking at slipstick users with a touch of envy! I think the demise of tools like slide rules and the fact that measuring devices are all digital has led to a society that is lost when trying to use tools that depend on things like vernier scales. If/when the power goes off there will be a lot of openings for teaching people to use mechanical tools! The nerds will be avenged!
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