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#111
09-19-2007, 04:49 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] I once managed to spill all the little rectangles from the collecting box underneath. This was in a carpeted room. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] How did you ever get them all back in order again? [/ QUOTE ] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Reminds me of what happened when the Americans left Iran after the revolution. They shredded all their documents before leaving the Embassy. Problem was that in those days shredders didn't shred very well. All you got was strips of of paper and sometimes parts were still joined. When the Iranians got into the Embassy they got 100s of people to sit down and stick the documents back together again. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] 
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#112
09-19-2007, 04:59 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Yeah. I better cool it before Anacardo shows up and throws a rod. [/ QUOTE ] YOU CAN'T EVEN SPELL 'TANEY' YOU [censored] HACK [/ QUOTE ] Something like that. I heard it pronounced "Tawny" and couldn't remember how to <u>speel</u> it. [/ QUOTE ] Murphy's Law strikes again!
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#114
09-19-2007, 08:56 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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cooking, how many people do you know that can prepare a full meal from scratch? or even just buy a chicken some veggies, etc, and get a meal out of it, w/o freaking? honestly I think that men are becoming more adept than women nowadays in the kitchen. [/ QUOTE ] yeah. this is a huge one that really sucks. I find that unless your parents/grand parents were immigrants, you will never learn how to cook. All of my friends that are 3rd generation american and on have difficulty scrambling eggs. I cook 10x more than my girlfriend does.
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#115
09-19-2007, 10:55 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
You guys all know how to tell if a number is divisible by 3 right? Add up the digits and see if that is divisible by 3. IE - 2763 = 18 = YES!
I had an offbeat math class in 7th grade that taught us all kinds of little tricks like this, how to do square roots manually, etc. The 3x thing is probably the only one I remember.
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#116
09-19-2007, 10:56 AM
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(recall that log(10^n) = n) [/ QUOTE ] How often do people use log base 10? For economics stuff I fairly often use natural log, but never base 10. I'm assuming it varies by field.
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#118
09-19-2007, 11:11 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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Writing in cursive. [/ QUOTE ] This is a very good example. I haven't written in cursive, or even printed a long paragraph in YEARS. A month or so ago, for whatever reason, I decided to write a few sentences in cursive. I'd totally forgotten several letters, heh. Also, blowing on Nintendo cartridges is also a pretty accurate answer. There's also a certain amount of pressure you need apply to get the game to work and not display that flashing grey screen. I still play my Nintendo these days, but I'd have to assume that most of today's children have no idea about the old school games. I wonder if their attention span could handle something so simple when they're used to the graphic heavy games of today.
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#120
09-19-2007, 12:15 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
Bands and/or artists making albums.
Before the invention of the CD, albums often told a story from one side to the next with the songs. Then the CD came along, and this changed somewhat. Now, with MP3s taking over, an actual studio album like this is virtually non-existent. Artists now focus on singles alone and never the collection of songs as a whole.
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