Is technology taking over our lives?!?

Meltdown99

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Meltdown99 said:

Or how about the gear shifter on the tree again?!?

Now you are talking.  lol

brianlux

Obviously, digital is taking over our lives.  Almost everything is digital these days.   Other than expensive new vinyl LPs (often pressed from a digital source), music is digital.  Light (harsh LED) is quickly turning digital.  Movies are digital.  TV is digital.  Banking is digital.  Printing is digital.

I know life changes- I've been around long enough to know that- but the change to an all-digital world is depressing to me.  I'm glad I'm old.  I will only have to live a relatively small percentage of my life in an all digital phony world. 

mickeyrat

having spent significant time with a manual transmission in a semi during various rush hours and behind accidents, I can assure you modern automated manual truck transmissions are a fucking godsend.........

Meltdown99

brianlux

Meltdown99 said:

Haha! 

And these too, soon to become obscure artifacts:

Seriously though, I worked with students at our local college in the early 2000's, many of them in their freshman year, and I was amazed by the poor handwriting of so many of those students.  It often looked something like this:

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

Meltdown99 said:

Haha! 

And these too, soon to become obscure artifacts:

Seriously though, I worked with students at our local college in the early 2000's, many of them in their freshman year, and I was amazed by the poor handwriting of so many of those students.  It often looked something like this:

My handwriting has always been awful if I rush, which I often do...

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

Meltdown99 said:

Haha! 

And these too, soon to become obscure artifacts:

Seriously though, I worked with students at our local college in the early 2000's, many of them in their freshman year, and I was amazed by the poor handwriting of so many of those students.  It often looked something like this:

My handwriting has always been awful if I rush, which I often do...

When I'm in a hurry, mine is messy as well.  I can still write neatly when I want to but not for as long due to age/arthritis.  When I was younger I could print by hand, as one friend once put it, "like a typewriter" and my cursive was good. 

But does anyone write like this these days?:

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

Meltdown99 said:

Haha! 

And these too, soon to become obscure artifacts:

Seriously though, I worked with students at our local college in the early 2000's, many of them in their freshman year, and I was amazed by the poor handwriting of so many of those students.  It often looked something like this:

My handwriting has always been awful if I rush, which I often do...

When I'm in a hurry, mine is messy as well.  I can still write neatly when I want to but not for as long due to age/arthritis.  When I was younger I could print by hand, as one friend once put it, "like a typewriter" and my cursive was good. 

But does anyone write like this these days?:

That's calligraphy, no?

I never took that in school.  I know the art department taught it but phased it out.

Hold on...  Let me try.

Meltdown99

brianlux said:

Meltdown99 said:

Haha! 

And these too, soon to become obscure artifacts:

Seriously though, I worked with students at our local college in the early 2000's, many of them in their freshman year, and I was amazed by the poor handwriting of so many of those students.  It often looked something like this:

I am good buddies with a retired teacher.  He was a science teacher, he showed me the quality of the students works from when he first started teaching in 75, then he showed me the more recent work.  No doubt the 70's school was at least a more presentable...

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

Meltdown99 said:

Haha! 

And these too, soon to become obscure artifacts:

Seriously though, I worked with students at our local college in the early 2000's, many of them in their freshman year, and I was amazed by the poor handwriting of so many of those students.  It often looked something like this:

My handwriting has always been awful if I rush, which I often do...

When I'm in a hurry, mine is messy as well.  I can still write neatly when I want to but not for as long due to age/arthritis.  When I was younger I could print by hand, as one friend once put it, "like a typewriter" and my cursive was good. 

But does anyone write like this these days?:

That's calligraphy, no?

I never took that in school.  I know the art department taught it but phased it out.

Hold on...  Let me try.

Yeah kind of- I meant to just post a photo of neat cursive.  I think more traditional calligraphy has thicker and thinner lines like this:

I know a woman who has illegible hand writing and yet can do calligraphy like a fine artist.  It's strange how different they are.

tempo_n_groove

hedonist

Good luck with calligraphy if you're a southpaw.  I had fun yet inky times trying my hand (haha) at it when I was a kid.

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

Practicing left-handed writing:

HesCalledDyer

I write in small caps almost all the time.

brianlux

HesCalledDyer said:

I write in small caps almost all the time.

Oh great, now I've got that little Final Jeopardy jingle ear-worming my brain. 

tempo_n_groove

This was taken from Ancestry's website...

At Ancestry, we enable journeys of self-discovery. As a result, we collect, process and store your Personal Information as you use our websites, mobile applications, and services (collectively the “Services”). Personal Information is information that can identify you, such as your name, email or street address, or it may be information that could reasonably be linked back to you, including your Genetic Information. This Privacy Statement describes our practices for collecting, storing and processing your Personal Information and the controls we provide you to manage it within our Services. In addition, we have a Cookie Policy that describes our use of browser cookies and similar tracking technologies which is considered a part of this Privacy Statement.

F That Man...

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

This was taken from Ancestry's website...

At Ancestry, we enable journeys of self-discovery. As a result, we collect, process and store your Personal Information as you use our websites, mobile applications, and services (collectively the “Services”). Personal Information is information that can identify you, such as your name, email or street address, or it may be information that could reasonably be linked back to you, including your Genetic Information. This Privacy Statement describes our practices for collecting, storing and processing your Personal Information and the controls we provide you to manage it within our Services. In addition, we have a Cookie Policy that describes our use of browser cookies and similar tracking technologies which is considered a part of this Privacy Statement.

F That Man...

No shit!  And what do they mean by "process" it?  Q: Are we not men?  A:  We are Devo Cattle.

mickeyrat

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

This was taken from Ancestry's website...

At Ancestry, we enable journeys of self-discovery. As a result, we collect, process and store your Personal Information as you use our websites, mobile applications, and services (collectively the “Services”). Personal Information is information that can identify you, such as your name, email or street address, or it may be information that could reasonably be linked back to you, including your Genetic Information. This Privacy Statement describes our practices for collecting, storing and processing your Personal Information and the controls we provide you to manage it within our Services. In addition, we have a Cookie Policy that describes our use of browser cookies and similar tracking technologies which is considered a part of this Privacy Statement.

F That Man...

No shit!  And what do they mean by "process" it?  Q: Are we not men?  A:  We are Devo Cattle.

process is dna extraction

PJ_Soul

HesCalledDyer said:

I'm all for embracing technology...  I just enjoy (and much prefer) driving a vehicle on my own.

Sometimes sacrifices must be made for the greater good.

Meltdown99

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