Re: The Random Information Age

["Randal T. RIoux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

On 05/14/10 22:05, chris () blask org wrote:
> --- On Fri, 5/14/10, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
> <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
>
> > We eventually had about five sets around the house.  I even bought
> > one myself,  when I was young and foolish and taking my first
> > formal teaching job.
>
> OK, now we've reached a previously unheralded meta-level of geekdom.
> We are, apparently, the adult form of the kids who liked reading
> encyclopedias.  How very sad.
>
> OTOH, last I heard the bully who tormented my childhood years was
> hoping to get the manager's job at the UPS warehouse he's been
> stacking boxes in for the past decade.  Todd O'Haver, I'd say that
> you can continue to bite me into the foreseeable future, but it seems
> that life has resolved that conflict in a much more satisfying
> fashion.
>
> Pass me volume Ma-Mn, please?

I see many "lost" packages in your future now :-)

Then again, he may not have Internets.

And to add to the geek fire, I remember the local grocery store in my
small home town in Maine in the early 1980's did the Green Stamp thing.
I was probably about 6 or 7 years old and I remember collecting them to
redeem for each letter of the encyclopedia set they offered. I got up to
like 'M' and they stopped the offer. I was so sad.

Randy
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