There was a time, in writing this,
that my fingers would have been stained with ink
now such a thing is not possible
- push a few keys - it's antiseptic
costs me nothing but a few moments and no clean-up
things have been dropped on the ground
along the way not realizing their worth
Worth
Re: Worth
I spent 4 yrs of university physics doing all of my calculations with a slide rule. Mind you, I'll never go back - but because of its limitations, you had to know to within a degree of magnitude what your answer was going to be - meaning you had to set up a computational chain so your answer would be some number between 0 and 10, times a power of 10. The slide rule would get you the first of those, but you were responsible for the second. If you made a mistake, it was usually pretty obvious. Punching a number into a calculator or spreadsheet diminishes that sense of number-feel, makes it harder to smell a mistake.
From "All Things Considered":
From "All Things Considered":
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710
"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710
Re: Worth
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I went to an engineering high school ( prior to the military draft ) ....remember the holsters.....some kids hung them from their belt ...like a weapon
I went to an engineering high school ( prior to the military draft ) ....remember the holsters.....some kids hung them from their belt ...like a weapon
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading
you may end up where you are heading
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