Our old age will probably be spent trying to explain to our great grandchildren how we communicated through message boards which will probably seem as state-of-the-art to future generations as the horse and buggy seems to us.
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Unfathomable speeds may be attainable in the actual motion-related spheres and industries, but for most people, just getting through their day, given the depth to which they usually plumb the fathoms of reality, is remarkable.
[size=8pt]Speaking of state-of-the-art to the current generation: a high school kid at work tonight saw the printer was ringing, and got all flummoxed. "Someone's paging us somehow" they said.
"You mean the printer is ringing?" I asked from the back.0
"Yeah, someone's paging us on the printer."
"Nah, man, it's a fax machine, too. Someone's trying to fax us something."
"Well pager...fax...it's the same thing."
"No, it's not. Except they're both from before your time."
"I think you should try and pick it up."
"Why? It's a fax machine. All it will do is go whhheeeeeeeeeee rrrrrr beedooop heedonk heedonk heedonk on me," I replied, and I tried to make it sound like a fax/modem, but I wanted to actually make the Mutual News sounder, but figured it would be pearls before swine.
Turns out, after I noticed the phone later, it was actually the phone, because there was "Private number" on the caller ID at that time [the phone and printer/fax/etc. are on different lines].
So now I don't know if they were flummoxed by the "fax phone printer combination" concept or just the telephone itself (even though it's a 2.4GHz wireless, it's not like it's a crank phone or something....
[size=8pt]Speaking of state-of-the-art to the current generation: a high school kid at work tonight saw the printer was ringing, and got all flummoxed. "Someone's paging us somehow" they said.
"You mean the printer is ringing?" I asked from the back.0
"Yeah, someone's paging us on the printer."
"Nah, man, it's a fax machine, too. Someone's trying to fax us something."
"Well pager...fax...it's the same thing."
"No, it's not. Except they're both from before your time."
"I think you should try and pick it up."
"Why? It's a fax machine. All it will do is go whhheeeeeeeeeee rrrrrr beedooop heedonk heedonk heedonk on me," I replied, and I tried to make it sound like a fax/modem, but I wanted to actually make the Mutual News sounder, but figured it would be pearls before swine.
Turns out, after I noticed the phone later, it was actually the phone, because there was "Private number" on the caller ID at that time [the phone and printer/fax/etc. are on different lines].
So now I don't know if they were flummoxed by the "fax phone printer combination" concept or just the telephone itself (even though it's a 2.4GHz wireless, it's not like it's a crank phone or something....
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Darth_vader
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Remarkable, though not surprising, that there are kids who really are dumb enough not to know the difference between a beeper and a telefax machine.
[size=8pt]Please tell me you're just pulling my leg with that story, quad. That'd be pretty sad if it's real. But then, that's what growing up a F?c?b??k w???e/Tw¡tt3r k¡dd¡e with a c3ll f0n3z0rz will eventually do to you. I'd loved to have seen his reaction to my company's f0ne system back in the crossbar days!
Oh yeah, got the new LTO tape system going in the computer centre. We can finally say good riddance to the horrible, kludgy old 9-track!
[size=8pt]Please tell me you're just pulling my leg with that story, quad. That'd be pretty sad if it's real. But then, that's what growing up a F?c?b??k w???e/Tw¡tt3r k¡dd¡e with a c3ll f0n3z0rz will eventually do to you. I'd loved to have seen his reaction to my company's f0ne system back in the crossbar days!
Oh yeah, got the new LTO tape system going in the computer centre. We can finally say good riddance to the horrible, kludgy old 9-track!
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kenrayc
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The difference between a beeper and a telefax machine is the same difference between a land line phone and analog cable TV.
Comcast/ Xfinity is officially eliminating all analog broadcasting April 1 in CA, which they only were using it for the limited package with locals, TWC, ION, TBS and WGN, all of the other cable channels were eliminated a year ago.
Comcast/ Xfinity is officially eliminating all analog broadcasting April 1 in CA, which they only were using it for the limited package with locals, TWC, ION, TBS and WGN, all of the other cable channels were eliminated a year ago.
Analog cable TV is something I remember my parents finally getting in their home about a year or two after I left for college.
A different career path might have lead to a better future but then again, maybe not.
An altered path could be like that episode from Star Trek where the evil Captain Kirk is in charge of The Enterprise.
The enterprise reporting our local news sources do seems to be decreasing daily.
Nope, Darth. It all really happened. There was more to the conversation, but it was surreal, so I failed to absorb some of it.
Nope, Darth. It all really happened. There was more to the conversation, but it was surreal, so I failed to absorb some of it.
Decreasing daily is the number of places in the northeast where you can ride a mechanical bull for free.
Free topless driving to Illusions via NYC was probably not the brightest idea anyone could have come up with during some off time, especially when going to "maybe just fill in" to wiggle into the rock and roll champ chair.
And besides that just because it was a nice couple of days doesn't mean that everyone else was in the mood for hijinks.
And besides that just because it was a nice couple of days doesn't mean that everyone else was in the mood for hijinks.
A consultant to Dave & Kenny almost always turns into a "yes man" because every one of Dave & Kenny's ideas of how to rock are good ideas.
The most unlikeliest of sources is often where surprising things come from but if you start to think those good things will come from those unlikely sources than the unlikely sources are now likely sources and you are kind of expecting the unexpected.
Expecting the unexpected most often leads to disappointment and disillusionment.