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Mar. 2nd, 2008 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickOver at the list of Obsolete Skills are a bunch of things that make me feel old.
* AT commands for dial-up modems
* Autoexec.bat editing
* BASIC
* Be Kind - Rewind
* Booting off a floppy disk
* Calling collect on a payphone
* Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
* Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
* Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
* Clicking on the up and down arrows of a vertical scrollbar
* Compiling source code by hand
* Configuring Trumpet Winsock
* Config.sys editing
* Cranking up or down a car-window
* Cursive handwriting
* Dewey decimal system
* Dialing a rotary phone
* Drafting with pencils and T-square?
* Drive a manual transmission
* Focusing a camera
* Formatting a floppy
* FTP from a command line
* Handwriting
* Handling cash
* Hayes Command Set
* Manually loading ink on a fountain pen from an bottle
* Opening a can of beer or soda with a church key
* PASCAL-TurboPASCAL
* Popping corn in a pot with oil
* Punching a hole in the shell of a single-sided 5.25" floppy disc to make it double-sided
* Reading a paper map
* Remembering passwords
* Rolling down the car window
* Setting the choke or pumping the accelerator to start a car
* Sharpening a pencil
* Starting a car that has a manual choke
* Switching to high beams by stomping on a button in the floor
* Using a manual choke in cold weather
* Using a DOS window on a computer
* Walking long distances
* Whipping cream with a whisk
Also, in the most recent round of new music, I got Orff's Carmina Burana, which you have probably heard somewhere for something. It's in a lot of stuff. The *actual* words for Carmina Burana are something to do with God and they're in Latin. However, some smart person on the internets has provided new, English words for Carmina Burana. They're here. Also, YTMND means "You're The Man Now, Dog" in case anyone else out there is as totally not up to speed as I am on the internet slang of kids these days. (I'm allowed. I'll be thirty-eight in another month and change. It's not cute or cool or trendy for me to be up to speed on the doings of the fifteen year old set. It'd be mildly alarming, just as if I spent all my time texting my beaux or working on my myspace/facebook page.)
* AT commands for dial-up modems
* Autoexec.bat editing
* BASIC
* Be Kind - Rewind
* Booting off a floppy disk
* Calling collect on a payphone
* Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
* Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
* Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
* Clicking on the up and down arrows of a vertical scrollbar
* Compiling source code by hand
* Configuring Trumpet Winsock
* Config.sys editing
* Cranking up or down a car-window
* Cursive handwriting
* Dewey decimal system
* Dialing a rotary phone
* Drafting with pencils and T-square?
* Drive a manual transmission
* Focusing a camera
* Formatting a floppy
* FTP from a command line
* Handwriting
* Handling cash
* Hayes Command Set
* Manually loading ink on a fountain pen from an bottle
* Opening a can of beer or soda with a church key
* PASCAL-TurboPASCAL
* Popping corn in a pot with oil
* Punching a hole in the shell of a single-sided 5.25" floppy disc to make it double-sided
* Reading a paper map
* Remembering passwords
* Rolling down the car window
* Setting the choke or pumping the accelerator to start a car
* Sharpening a pencil
* Starting a car that has a manual choke
* Switching to high beams by stomping on a button in the floor
* Using a manual choke in cold weather
* Using a DOS window on a computer
* Walking long distances
* Whipping cream with a whisk
Also, in the most recent round of new music, I got Orff's Carmina Burana, which you have probably heard somewhere for something. It's in a lot of stuff. The *actual* words for Carmina Burana are something to do with God and they're in Latin. However, some smart person on the internets has provided new, English words for Carmina Burana. They're here. Also, YTMND means "You're The Man Now, Dog" in case anyone else out there is as totally not up to speed as I am on the internet slang of kids these days. (I'm allowed. I'll be thirty-eight in another month and change. It's not cute or cool or trendy for me to be up to speed on the doings of the fifteen year old set. It'd be mildly alarming, just as if I spent all my time texting my beaux or working on my myspace/facebook page.)
