Text 238, 61 rader
Skriven 2013-07-24 19:49:04 av BOB KLAHN (1:135/382)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: NoScript
================
 SD>> At my college, there are a few people who think I'm some sort of
 SD>> kiss-ass because I happen to know a few things about computers (I
 SD>> started using computers when I was eight years old; I'm 40 now).  A few

 My middle daughter found me on a local BBS when she was about 5.
 I got on there chatting to another user, and let her sit on my
 lap, one finger typing.

 When she was in college they had typing contests. When she
 walked in and sat down half the other competitors got up and
 left.

 SD>> weeks ago, a person made a rather rude remark to me about my knowledge
 SD>> and I turned around in my seat, in class, and hissed, "If I knew
 SD>> everything about computers, would I be associating with the likes of
you?"

 I like that one.

 SD>> I don't know it all.  What fun would there be in knowing everything?

 When you know it all it's time to die.

 AZ> No matter how much any of us know, there's always someone
 AZ> we can learn more from. At the beginning of my second year
 AZ> as computer teacher in an elementary school, working with
 AZ> all the students at the school, ages 6-12 (approximately),
 AZ> I was showing a piece of software called Storybook Weaver
 AZ> to a Grade 2 class (6-7 yr olds); reminding them that
 AZ> they'd used it briefly the year before.

 AZ> I showed them what I wanted them to do and one little guy
 AZ> put up his hand, saying: "Mr Z, there's an easier way to do
 AZ> that".

 AZ> He was right. I learned a lot from the little folks!

 Some 45+ years ago I was a tech in a TV factory. Yeah, they used
 to make those in this country. I was talking to one of the
 inspectors, and she showed me how they checked for bad isolation
 between the chasis and the control knobs. They checked from the
 back of the set, not the front where I expected them to. How
 they did it was simple, but the real lesson was, if it's the
 same either way do it the easy way.

 When I was in my Air Force tech school I had to test a chasis as
 part of the course. I did it from the back side, and the
 instructor didn't see how I did it. When I showed him he spent
 maybe 20 minutes going over it to see, I was right, it was the
 same test point, from another angle, and a lot easier.

 The woman who showed me that really knew nothing about
 electronics, but she did know one thing I didn't.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... General Director, International Association of Obsolete Equipment Clubs.
--- Via Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]
 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 Join Us: www.DocsPlace.org (1:123/140)