And more than four TV channels and six radio stations to get their electronic entertainment from...
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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!
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Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Don't forget, power door locks, power windows, TVs with remote controls, and refrigeration
You had 4 channels!?
We had only one.....a Xian Canuckistanian test pattern with a constant tone of humming mosquitoes.
that must have been before my time. We'd only get test patterns after midnight...sometimes from as far away as Terre Haute, if it was just after a thunderstorm...I never did understand why...
I was josh'n.
We had 4 channels too.....3 out of Detroit (2, 4, 7) & 1 out of Canuckistan (9).
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
We had 3..... all out of Boston....... then we got overwhelmed when we moved...and got a new TV..... we had 6....5 out of Boston and 1 out of Worcester....then things went crazy when we moved to NY...got 56 channels and now....we got a million of em'
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I like using type writers. Granted, I was still a kid when we were still using them, so I maybe I just didn't know any better, but I liked using them.
I hate printers. Computers I can fix no problem. Printers, they malfunction over a million things, troubleshooting them is harder than cars, and fixing them can be a tedious pain.
I know. Even when I was in high school we were taught how to do research in a library by using a card catalog to find the books we're looking for. The internet was just this thing and it wasn't much used for research then
When cable TV got started in my hometown (early/middle 1970s) the "Weather Channel" we got was a dials...literally, a thermometer, barometer, humidity meter (can't remember the name for those), wind direction, wind speed...maybe a couple more (oh, a clock...)...and the camera panned back and forth across them, so that it a minute or so you'd get all the current conditions...there were no forecasts or radar or satellite pictures or narration or anything else...just dials, 24/7.
They could be fun to use. I just found I wasn't good enough with them to use them well under pressure. I make a lot of mistakes when I type.
Of course, maybe the advice my oldest brother gave me early on helped me stay at this level of imperfection. He owned a business and I went to work for him one summer during college. He asked me how well I typed, and I told him I wasn't that great. OK. Well enough to function, but not that great. He said that was good, and not to get any better. I was puzzled by that comment, as I couldn't believe he wasn't telling me not to improve something.
He pointed to the typing pool of women and said that just about any job I might get out of college was likely to put me in a typing pool if I was really good. Once in there, it was tough for a woman to get out. He said there was a much better chance of getting a thinking job, if I didn't get trapped in the typing pool.
That's probably the only time I took his advice.
You had books?
We only had stone tablets.
Animal hides were the latest new fangled technology.
Btw, we had to make our own slide rules out of bear claws.
(Sorry 'bout that, @Wu Wei )
not sure how you'd make a slide rule from bear claws. An abacus, yes, but a slide rule?
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
He's making that up.....back in his day there were still North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear..... first two bears on the left....next to the puny human
He wasn't making anything out of bear claws back then.....he was mostly trying to avoid them
all of them from left to right
North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear, Polar Bear, Kodiak Bear (Wu Wei), Brown Bear, American Black Bear, Asiatic Black Bear,
Spectacled Bear, Sloth Bear, Giant Panda, Sun Bear
there are three to the left of the Polar bear...one to immediate left is kind of pinkish...He's making that up.....back in his day there were still North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear..... first two bears on the left....next to the puny human
He wasn't making anything out of bear claws back then.....he was mostly trying to avoid them
all of them from left to right
North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear, Polar Bear, Kodiak Bear (Wu Wei), Brown Bear, American Black Bear, Asiatic Black Bear,
Spectacled Bear, Sloth Bear, Giant Panda, Sun Bear
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Growing up, we had one of those TVs that had an on/off knob, a knob for VHF, and a knob for UHF, and two screws to attach a coaxial receptor to. The first time I watched Taxi Driver, which was somewhat recently, I felt a bit nostalgic seeing Travis having to actually roll his window up.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
oops, had to double check, sorry
North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, extinct polar bear sub-species (Ursus Maritimus Tyrannus), short-faced bear, cave bear, Polar Bear, Kodiak Bear (Wu Wei), Brown Bear, American Black Bear, Asiatic Black Bear,
okay, now you've got FOUR to the left of the polar bear...
How the mighty have fallen.He's making that up.....back in his day there were still North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear..... first two bears on the left....next to the puny human
He wasn't making anything out of bear claws back then.....he was mostly trying to avoid them
all of them from left to right
North American Giant Short-Faced Bear, Eurasian Cave Bear, Polar Bear, Kodiak Bear (Wu Wei), Brown Bear, American Black Bear, Asiatic Black Bear,
Spectacled Bear, Sloth Bear, Giant Panda, Sun Bear
While humans continue to grow bigger and bigger