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 (October 22, 2023 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Utterly useless skill I was forced to learn:Dad had a wooden one when he was in college. I used to play with it but still have no idea what to really do with one. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius  (October 19, 2023 at 10:20 pm)Fireball Wrote: I learned to program one of these in an independent math study "class" in high school. Quotes, because we just sat in the area between all the classes where the chem teacher mixed up stuff and the physics experiment stuff was kept. School year '69-'70. I graduated high school in '70. Damn you're old! I'm Class of '69. We didn't dare leave our sweaters anywhere. 
 (October 22, 2023 at 1:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: I also liked the cap gun toy. I can smell that picture. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 (October 22, 2023 at 2:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(October 22, 2023 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Utterly useless skill I was forced to learn:Dad had a wooden one when he was in college. I used to play with it but still have no idea what to really do with one. I was quite fluent with a slip stick back in the '70s, before hand-held calculators. I can still use mine to some extent.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
The only slap stick I ever encountered.
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"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter (October 22, 2023 at 4:12 pm)Fireball Wrote:(October 22, 2023 at 2:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Dad had a wooden one when he was in college. I used to play with it but still have no idea what to really do with one. I was required to learn how to use them when pocket calculators were already a thing. Pointless. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 (October 22, 2023 at 4:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 22, 2023 at 4:12 pm)Fireball Wrote: I was quite fluent with a slip stick back in the '70s, before hand-held calculators. I can still use mine to some extent. My high school had a giant one on the wall. 
Everyone had one but I couldn't figure out what was the point of the snooze button.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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