Carnac, made me laugh as I sit for upwards of 2 hours a day reading posts here. I think I'm in BY bondageWe didn't get our first color TV until I was 11-12 . Because we didn't have one, we didn't miss it........until we saw one on display at a major appliance store.We were not handcuffed to a TV or a cellphone all day. We (as kids) grew up being outdoors all day every day. We knew every kid in the neighborhood in a 3-4 block radius. Most of us had bikes, and rode them all around the neighborhood visiting every kid's house we knew.
We found things to keep our interest and friends to keep us busy and entertained. We had options and we used them. We built scooters and go-carts out of scrap wood using those old clamp skates. Some of these poor children today are in bondage. They are prisoners of their cellphones. They stare into their phones every waking moment, putting them down only to sleep.I am so glad cellphones had not been invented during my youth.
When I recall to my grandchildren all of the things that we have now, that had not been invented yet when I was a kid, they are in awe, wondering "how did you survive the day?" No cellphones, no computers or internet, no WiFi, no social media, no DVD recorders, no color TV or remotes to change the channels. No microwave ovens, no digital anything!!! My youngest GD told me "it sounds like you guys lived in the stone age"
99% of the time I only turn my cell phone on to run WAZE which is a heck of a lot better than trying to read an atlas while driving. Guys I know who are about my age are like 13-year-old girls with their cell phones never more than 10 inches from their noses. Unbelievable!
A lot of folks don’t have a sense of direction, or a Thomas Brother’s Guide (remember those?). If you drive and have a cellphone, you have no excuse for ever getting lost.
I check WCBB scores throughout the day every day.
Phones, what a pain in the backside. We have all seen some pretty strange stuff going on with the younger generation. One of the strangest to me, and I have seen it a few times, out to eat, a couple at a nearby table, both people phone out looking nowhere else, fingers flying over the screen typing away. Only to find out they were texting back and forth to each other. Good grief, can you imagine any golden people, BY or otherwise doing that?A lot of folks don’t have a sense of direction, or a Thomas Brother’s Guide (remember those?). If you drive and have a cellphone, you have no excuse for ever getting lost.
Something that intrigues me is when I see women/girls walking around in a store, a mall or simply in public with their phone in their hand instead in their purses or pocket. It must be a female thing. I never carry my phone in my hand. It’s always either in my back or shirt pocket.
I was standing in line behind a teenager and her mother recently in a Panda Express restaurant. We stood in line for about 10 minutes. The teenager took her phone out of her pocket, scrolled through a display, looked at it then put it away about a dozen times.
I wanted to ask her what she kept looking for, but didn’t. None of my business, but it sure looked odd to me. Maybe it was nervousness, or boredom. Whatever, but she was tied to her phone. I’ve had people tell me their phone was their life and admitted not being able to live without it. That’s bondage.
I do admit to spending a lot of time on it looking at the boneyard like I’m doing now, but being retired, I have a lot of extra time now.
Interesting subject, those phones. An anecdotal “experiment” a teaching colleague of my daughter conducted when the school year opened in September. He teaches 8th grade science and broke the class into groups of 4 for a two day classroom mini-project. At the end of the two days they were asked to each hand in their summation of the project. When reviewing the summaries he was taken aback by the disparate nature of the reports from within the groups, so he decided to try it again under different “rules.”A lot of folks don’t have a sense of direction, or a Thomas Brother’s Guide (remember those?). If you drive and have a cellphone, you have no excuse for ever getting lost.
Something that intrigues me is when I see women/girls walking around in a store, a mall or simply in public with their phone in their hand instead in their purses or pocket. It must be a female thing. I never carry my phone in my hand. It’s always either in my back or shirt pocket.
I was standing in line behind a teenager and her mother recently in a Panda Express restaurant. We stood in line for about 10 minutes. The teenager took her phone out of her pocket, scrolled through a display, looked at it then put it away about a dozen times.
I wanted to ask her what she kept looking for, but didn’t. None of my business, but it sure looked odd to me. Maybe it was nervousness, or boredom. Whatever, but she was tied to her phone. I’ve had people tell me their phone was their life and admitted not being able to live without it. That’s bondage.
I do admit to spending a lot of time on it looking at the boneyard like I’m doing now, but being retired, I have a lot of extra time now.
Which for me would be 1010001.One of the real geezers at 82. When I was studying electronics at RPI in the 1950's the semiconductor stuff wasn't even in books yet! All the semiconductor material was on handouts of those old purple ditto sheets. (The 70 year olds might remember them.) I also remember a fraternity brother who was a graduate TA in electronics trying in vain to teach me and my roommate the binary numbering system.
