[TheForge] Re: Taken On the Aspect of Old Geezerhood

[Mike]

> Happy Birthday. 

Thank you. Had just that.

> You have advanced to the next level.

Yes.  Can I stop flapping my arms now?

> You can now utter the magic phrases like "Hey, hey, hey, Get off my
> lawn."

Don't have a lawn, per se.  Got some backland.

    When Ah sees a stranger sneakin' crosst mah backland, Ah ups with
    Ol' Betsy  and BLAM!!  An' Ah tells if they's friend or foe when Ah
    turns 'em over.        -- Wiley Cat (Pogo's Old Geezer neighbor)

Of course, Wiley was going to report The Little Red Hen to HUAC, so
maybe I don't want to be *too* closely associated with him.

The downside is that all the nice, shiny young people at the bank,
people who've never even *seen* a dial telephone, think it's because
I'm an iggorant, elderly crank that I don't use their plastic.  Not
worth the trouble trying to explain that it's because I know enough
about computer programming, risks inherent in technology, encryption
etc. to know that all their chirpy, optimistic promotional blah-blah
is firmly founded on a pile of horse pucky. :-)

ObSmithing:  My first attempt at computer model of a LG hammer is
working.  I'm tickled.  Needs a lot of work yet before it can be used
as a tune-up tool.  Real Soon Now, if the weather stays nasty for a
while yet. (If anybody else is running Linux and is interested in
this, send me private email.)


- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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