Technology and I are not friends.

[Hertervillian]

I feel this myself.

Want to learn a LOT about your smartphone? Register a SBR online with ATF. My brain hurt a bunch that month (yes month). Worse than Chinese calculus. The final hurdle was the photo portion of the riddle. Finally broke down and asked the IT department of the family, my son in law, actual paid IT guy. He threw up his hands in defeat. My daughter says "oh just email it to yourself" then put it in as a (?)file.

2 years on I might just do it again. It'll be just like I never did it before I'm sure.

 

[Armybrat]

Chinese calculus?
You should've borrowed my appropriate hardware….

 

[Yaworski]

I still have my circular slide rule and my slipstick. Still have my TI SR-50A and SR-56 calculators.

 

[Jeepnik]

I joined the Computer Club in High School. Didn't know much or care, but there were some girls in the club so it looked like a good place to be.

Photo club. Girls and dark rooms. But this was the 60's when things we fairly relaxed.

 

[Hertervillian]

Chinese calculus?
You should've borrowed my appropriate hardware….

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Genius level achieved

 

[GypsmJim]

Photo club. Girls and dark rooms. But this was the 60's when things we fairly relaxed.

I was the club instructor for the University photo club. Once I was teaching a girl how to develop film, and of course the darkroom does not even have a safelight at that point. I distinctly remember her saying: "My hands are over here"....

Once we had a "figure session" during one of our evening club meetings. A very beautiful model was the subject. (figure = nude). Our club president was up on stage taking moving shots and closeups and he really was into be a professional photographer. Later we found out he had no film in the camera....

 

[ArizonaTea123]

My father taught me how to drive a stick in his 1965 Volkswagen Beetle.
I drove deuce and half and five ton in the Army mo problem. Anyhing with a clutch is easy.

 

[Laserbait]

When my company got woke ( or TQM or Six sigma as they called it at the time) many years ago I was required to do that crap. The instructors were idiots and I taught them more than I got in return. Nevertheless, it got me my raise that year.

Oh geez, I remember six sigma. What a load of crapola that was.

I always thought less of people that put their six sigma "rank" in their email signatures (i.e. Six Sigma Black Belt). I used to refer to them as the SS Troops. That annoyed more than one person, so it was worth it.

 

[Tensaw]

I was having a conversation with the boss' son who works at the Apple Store. At one point he said, "You've probably never worked for a technology company like I do." "Not at all. I used to work for Computer Sciences Corporation as an assembly language programmer." Mr. Technology had no idea what assembly language is.

Worked with a young woman who announced that since she was the youngest person on the team that she was consequently the most tech savvy and would be the go to person for tech help. Turns out that she didn't know of to delete multiple emails from her Gmail account.

Most "tech savvy" people really have no clue. They know how to upload videos and teleconference but doing something like recovering a lost partition is magic.

I was an IBM assembly language computer programmer for 16 years...

 

[Yaworski]

I was an IBM assembly language computer programmer for 16 years...

We are gods among mortals!

 

[GypsmJim]

Oh geez, I remember six sigma. What a load of crapola that was.

I always thought less of people that put their six sigma "rank" in their email signatures (i.e. Six Sigma Black Belt). I used to refer to them as the SS Troops. That annoyed more than one person, so it was worth it.

In my opinion you are totally wrong. Six sigma is the absolute best way to approach an issue. The crapola part is having to spend all the time doing the steps to get to the end line.

UNDERSTAND the methodology and USE it and you will be better off.

You do realize that Six Sigma was an American "invention". USA companies didn't want to bother with it, so the educated consultants took it to Japan after we bombed the crap out of them. Their success is what brought it back to America. USA Companies that embrace it are the ones that exceed all the others.

Just IMHO. I HAD to use it in my last few jobs and it made me a better employee and helped me succeed. Meeting my job goals made me enough raises that I was able to retire early.

My son HAD to do it as well, and his success is another testament. Those that popo it are simply lazy.

 

[Armybrat]

This is my smartest phone….

 

[375hh1973]

This is my smartest phone….

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Looks like a pain in the ass to send a text

 

[Armybrat]

Looks like a pain in the ass to send a text

Just tap the message on the bell ringer with the crank.

 

[Huntfish918]

Chinese calculus?
You should've borrowed my appropriate hardware….

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But do you have a holster for either? Ha ha

 

[DBnoise]

I worked on the bleeding edge of technology for 25 years. I got burned out keeping up. Got out of the rat race. I didn't own any computer of any sort for 15 years. I am typing this on my first "smart" phone. After three years still learning all the feature. Dang thing cost me more than my most expensive rifle. That really put a dent in my activities. Just imagine how many bullets, powder and primers that would buy. Well what it used to buy anyways!
What was difficult was unlearned my logic because this yugo must have been created from someone they locked in the closet for long periods of time and feed through a hatch.

 

[Rand O’Merik]

I know a little bit about a lot of things; enough to get by…

But I love how quiet the world around me gets when the power goes out.

 

[Johnnu2]

I know a little bit about a lot of things; enough to get by…

But I love how quiet the world around me gets when the power goes.

This is why God created the "shut-off" switch.
The battery in my flip-phone needs a 'charge' once a month.....maybe!

J.

 

[vito]

The final 23 years of my working life was as a licensed Nursing Home Administrator. Most states, including IL where I spent most of those 23 years, requires a certain number of hours of "continuing education". It almost doesn't matter what the education consists of and most anything can be certified as acceptable toward the required hours. Some years my company brought in a "consultant" who would provide a seemingly endless set of seminars on stuff like "planning" and was usually useless jargon and a little common sense, but the hours were counted and enough to meet the annual requirements. Most Nursing Home Administrators would attend their state association's annual meeting and thereby get the hours of education required. I think that the state requirement was a way to keep those associations in business, but we all had to go through the charade every year. When I retired I let my license expire since I was determined not to have to keep attending useless education sessions that I would have had to pay to attend.

 

[wproct]

I remember when home computers first became a thing. One of our neighbors got one mainly for their kids to use and I thought "what are they good for, just to keep your home expenses or balance your check book"? I just didn't get it at all and now I would be lost without mine, it's my main source of entertainment.