They don't bother me, but 9 times out of 10 at wallyword something goes wrong and the podium jockey has to come punch in a code and winds up doing the checkout for me. A few times I made it through without bells, alarms and lights flashing but those were the exception. Whatever, it's nothing enough to not let me enjoy the rest of the day.
Ah, the memories.
Years ago, I translated the New Testament into Morse Code. I billed the work as "The translation for the scholar who has every other translation." None of the religious publishers I contacted were interested, so I shelved the work for a more enlightened time.
Sadly, a few years ago, the last official user of Morse Code ceased its use (it was weather ship in the North Atlantic as I recall).
My view is that competitive sports are the male equivalent of the daytime soap opera.
That doesn't mean sports are trivial - they bring out the warrior instinct.
I just wish the players had spears...
Perhaps not so "sadly". According to ARRL, morse code use, along with interest in amateur radio, is alive and well and on the rise. As a retired geezer, I'm now learning morse code and have both a new Kent straight key and a dual paddle w/ keyer. I doubt morse code will die off any time soon.
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Just because it isn't used anymore doesn't mean we all forgot it. The USMC taught me Morse code in 1968-- years after they quit using telegraphs, but the MOS was still valid and needed to be filled.
I'm always amazed when I can decipher a few words when I run across some code on the radio.
Jim
Is Morse Code still taught to Navy pilots?
TDD
I next generated a treatment for a book whose working title was "Toilet Tissue Origami - The Ultimate Book for the John."
Aside from its obvious use, I envisioned up-scale hotels training their housekeeping staff to do something other than a "point" (which is kind of scary when you think on it).
Wouldn't you be impressed when, instead of a poor imitation of an arrowhead, you were greeted by a swan? Or a boat (which, with the right kind of paper could be torn off and used in the tub)? Instead of a boat, a ship-of-the-line. Repelling boarders. On fire.
I had great plans, but, sadly, got little interest from the mainstream publishers.
Disillusioned, I now confine my literary talents to newsgroup posts. Sort of like short-short stories.
Didn't you invent something for county workers to lean their shovels on. Something about reducing the number of workers needed to hold up shovels?
Yes. I computed the city could save a bunch in personnel costs by using my bipod to hold shovels upright around construction sites.
Laughed me out of the city council chamber, they did!
The city's public works department must be unionized is all I can figure...
Then why aren't you writing in a Native American dialect of one kind or another?
Woo woo woo woo woo woo! :-)
TDD
Uh, because textbooks are difficult to find?
As you know, Native Americans never developed a written language, metallurgy, or, for that matter, the wheel.
Don't know where you live, but Lowe's certainly isn't alone - go to Home de-pot. Some towns in S. Texas are 80% Hispanic. By 2050, they will be the majority of the country.
Bob-tx
Again, some of the families were there when it was still part of Mexico. They didn't move, the border did. As to the others- I can't really get too mad at them, whether they have green cards or not. Mexico is going in the crapper (for whatever reasons), and they just want to live in a place with a familiar culture, and where they can feed their kids, and the kids won't get shot at.
I wish I had learned Spanish as a kid, but what little language-learning capability I ever had, has long since shut down. Upside of these dual-language areas is that the young Anglos will have a better chance of learning another language as they grow up, when it is painless and easy. (Something that is taken as a matter of course in many countries, but that the US has never been very good at encouraging.)
Largely because until the last generation or so, there wasn't any real need seen. In Europe you can go the same distance from Indy to Miami and go through a couple different countries with different languages. In America there was no incentive to learn a new language.. unless you were heading to Georgia. (g).
My grandfather came from Poland and he spoke six languages and learned English. Most everyone in Europe speaks two or three depending on where they live and what countries they border. I know a half dozen words in Polish and a couple of dozen in Italian. My wife used to speak Italian as a kid, but lost most when her grandmother died and it was not practiced. She at least understands most of it though so when we go to Italy, she helps me to understand.
I've even met a guy from Montreal that spoke English.
My maternal grandmother emigrated from Finland. When my mother was a child she was forbidden to speak Finnish, though learned enough along with her sister, to decode what the adults were talking about behind their backs.
Amazing, I met him too.
"Bob-tx" wrote in news:4cfa26d2$0$14783$ snipped-for-privacy@news.suddenlink.net:
I feel sorry for people in 2050.
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