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RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?
Subject:RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age? From:"Richard L Hamilton" <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> To:"'Sarah Stegall'" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net> Date:Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:49:39 -0600
I suspect half the guys on the list (or at least those over
a certain age:-) are thinking "Can clean a carburetor? Owns
a '65 Mustang? My kind of woman!"
BTW, WRT your other email, using XML is a lot easier than
keeping a '65 Mustang running:-).
Richard
(can still spell carburetor, but the only ones I've seen in
the last 20 years were on aircraft engines:-).
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> Subject: RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?
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> Post literate? Or maybe the technology changes too fast to
> keep up with.
>
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> I can still clean a carburetor. I can even write a procedure on how to
> do it. Trouble is, even my mechanic doesn't know what one is. Which is
> why he is not permitted to touch my 1965 Mustang.
>
> Sarah
> vroom
>
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