tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7222824892927129266..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: DiscardsNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-72073054823361964222017-11-21T15:50:36.405-06:002017-11-21T15:50:36.405-06:00FME's comment is fascinating. Once long ago, ...FME's comment is fascinating. Once long ago, I ran checks through a machine to process them in...maybe one of her machines. Even tho I haven't signed a check in years, I would have saved the cards. LOLMagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333086721654817750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-52307932305241545422017-11-21T14:06:13.177-06:002017-11-21T14:06:13.177-06:00In the late 70s early 80s i had a job where you wo...In the late 70s early 80s i had a job where you would sit and pick little pieces of plastic off of widgets and we would talk and occasionally there'd be a disagreement of some sort. My mom told me that when you needed the answer to a question you could call the library and the librarian would look it up for you. We tried it, I was shocked but she was very sweet about the inconvenience to her day and she told us the answer to the question that solved our disagreement. Nowadays they call this trueoogling. For some reason we find ourselves doing this all the time. how did everything get to be a disagreement and why is it so important to have the correct answer and how do you know that the answer Google gives you really is correct?<br /> It's funny thinking about that job I realize that the widgets were for the banking industry and they went on a machine that would number and date and cancel our checks. Checks! I know they're still around but I hardly ever use one It's All Digital currency now very little cash involved or checks anywayFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22186467752463434002017-11-21T09:09:51.651-06:002017-11-21T09:09:51.651-06:00When you occasionally have to chase down a tidbit ...When you occasionally have to chase down a tidbit of information that's not available online, that's when you appreciate the convenience and efficiency of online data.<br /><br />A few years ago, I was doing an article about rising food prices, and my boss told me to do a brief sidebar on a similar situation in the mid-1970s. I could only find stray bits and pieces of info online--not enough to anchor a coherent article, even a short one. So I trundled to the library and spend most of the day whirring through reels of microfilmed back issues of Time and Newsweek. It took me hours to gather the information for a little 200-word sidebar--a task that would have taken me maybe 20 minutes had it been available online.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-87849256512616860032017-11-21T09:02:59.969-06:002017-11-21T09:02:59.969-06:00I once had the opportunity to drown a sick puppy t...I once had the opportunity to drown a sick puppy that an American Indian household could not afford to keep. The women wanted to get rid of the poor dog, but didn't have the heart to kill it. However I rationalized it, I volunteered to do so, with the resolve to show myself a man to my Indian not-quite-a-maiden, who could be heartless and even cruel if necessary as expected of a real man. I took the dog to a nearby creek in the Wisconsin woods and held its head under water until it stopped struggling. Then I flung the corpse as far as I could into the underbrush. Two days later, the dog showed up at the house, a frisky healthy puppy apparently cured by a couple days rest. I was greatly relieved that my attempt at murder had failed.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31948192001493509202017-11-21T08:39:44.295-06:002017-11-21T08:39:44.295-06:00I sure hope you're right about the internet an...I sure hope you're right about the internet and its permanence. Otherwise there's going to be a large information gap in the future. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-40038123056596041412017-11-21T07:21:30.441-06:002017-11-21T07:21:30.441-06:00In another life I was a librarian. To a librarian ...In another life I was a librarian. To a librarian a card catalog was a sacred thing, representing countless hours of precise work, but more importantly, a record of the sum of mankind's knowledge and a path to that knowledge. The thought of throwing one away remains mind blowing. Yet, like you, I did it once upon a time. Computer technology is as emotionlessly relentless as prairie fire - it kills the old so that the new may flourish. Your line "the way you would drown a litter of kittens if you had to" is one of the most shockingly casual utterances I've ever read - and it fits perfectly. This is why yours is the best daily writing on the globe. Dennis Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03936110563379328219noreply@blogger.com