Originally Posted by
Perry Hilbert Jr
a few years later about 1974, I was attending a conference at Bucknell University and ran into an acquaintance who was an engineering student there. (we were on competing rifle teams) He was wearing a leather pouch on his belt almost the size of a cigar box. WTH is that? I asked him. He said it is a new electronic calculator.
That timing sounds off: the (normal-size) HP35 scientific calculator came out in 1972. (My senior year, '71-'72, HP gave beta-test units to everyone in the engineering school, and replaced them with production units at graduation.)
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.