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:-).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+dick=rlhamilton -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+dick=rlhamilton -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- co
> m] On Behalf Of Sarah Stegall
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:15 PM
> To: voxwoman; Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?
>
>
> Post literate? Or maybe the technology changes too fast to
> keep up with.
>
>
> 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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