What fun ...

Go on ... just try it !!

Imagination Cubed !

Thanks to my friend Allanah in New Zealand for this one.

I can use a slide rule ...

Honest - I can ... I still have one ... a little one made of bone (I think) with a dinky little slider on it and a bit that slips in and out of the middle. I found similar ones on the 'Vintage Instruments' site.

And I can use log tables. I can remember that I even took exams in log tables to prove I could use log tables (but I never quite got the idea of why this was a good thing).

And I can use a calculator. My phone has one on it too. I remember that a guy called Ken Tyler and I did lots of work on the use of calculators way back in the mid 70s when they first came into schools and people tried like mad to ban their use (rot your brain, they said).

Now I have Google ... sometimes I think I live on the planet Google (How sad is that?) and it seems to manage my calculations for me without me worrying too much.

I used to write a lot. Holding a stylus type thing between my fingers and making strange marks on refined bits of tree ... but I am better now !! I still have an indentation on the middle finger of my right hand where the stylus thing rested as I moved it backwards and forwards across the bits of tree making marks... but I AM better now.

I now communicate. Honestly - but my wrists ache from all of this picking and poking at the plastic squares ... and I still have to look at the letters. I recently acquired a txt keyboard and that is fun but now my thumb aches a lot.Please what is next?

And the reason for all this ... a very funny cartoon ...which came off the back of a blog post from apophenia.

Brightened my day.


Attribution: Greg Williams, The Tampa Tribune.