Re: Would a Mustacheo'd Slide-Rule Wizard Even BE Allowed?
| December 22, 2012 12:22AM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> South Park Wrote:
> ===================================
> > ... I'm not so sure. Most of the kids
> these days
> > are crackhead delinquents. Those old
> slide-rule
> > wizards were serious men with dedicated mus-
> > taches.
>
>
> Not so, S.P. -
>
> Crackheads are a minority. IMHO, the REAL
> problem is that too many bright kids today spend
> too much time playing complicated video games that
> some even brighter kids build for them, instead of
> building things themselves - like model airplanes,
> model trains, and later on tinkering with old cars
> and learning how to really DO things. I
> learned quite a bit about carpentry, electrical
> wiring, soldering and how things work in general
> from putting together balsa & tissue airplanes,
> and later assembling HO kits and eventually
> designing & building models from scratch. I
> even taught myself the rudiments of drawing with
> straight-edges, triangles and templates for
> 30° ovals well enough to produce the original
> of the diagram on
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 04116#msg-204116 long before taking any classes in
> either mechanical or architectural drafting.
> I'm old enough to remember slide rules, too - but
> much prefer my trusty mid-70's HP 28S calculator
> when it comes to accurate nine-digit computations
> like those on
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 31894#msg-231894.
Yes! anyone can be God with a cool set of toys and a hobby!
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> South Park Wrote:
> ===================================
> > ... I'm not so sure. Most of the kids
> these days
> > are crackhead delinquents. Those old
> slide-rule
> > wizards were serious men with dedicated mus-
> > taches.
>
>
> Not so, S.P. -
>
> Crackheads are a minority. IMHO, the REAL
> problem is that too many bright kids today spend
> too much time playing complicated video games that
> some even brighter kids build for them, instead of
> building things themselves - like model airplanes,
> model trains, and later on tinkering with old cars
> and learning how to really DO things. I
> learned quite a bit about carpentry, electrical
> wiring, soldering and how things work in general
> from putting together balsa & tissue airplanes,
> and later assembling HO kits and eventually
> designing & building models from scratch. I
> even taught myself the rudiments of drawing with
> straight-edges, triangles and templates for
> 30° ovals well enough to produce the original
> of the diagram on
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 04116#msg-204116 long before taking any classes in
> either mechanical or architectural drafting.
> I'm old enough to remember slide rules, too - but
> much prefer my trusty mid-70's HP 28S calculator
> when it comes to accurate nine-digit computations
> like those on
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 31894#msg-231894.
Yes! anyone can be God with a cool set of toys and a hobby!
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