Hmmmmmmm........ I was just reading a blog that I happened to come upon by chance when searching for information on the Zenith Tripple Hi-Ficiency Switch (which I believe I already have about as much information as I can get about). The blogger went on about this modern aspect and that one. The guy was getting hysterical about people still calling cell phones cell phones. There are all of these more modern technical names that are more appropriate for them, and we should be calling them by those names. Who cares, though? Cell is much easier to say. He went on about ice boxes and fridges. Well, in that case, fridge is quite easy to say, so why wouldn't anyone say it? He also went on to say that the words television and radio are doomed for extinction. Why would they be? ...Just so that some anti-anolog freak can have his modern words? As long as there will be long distance video programming, there will be television, and why call it anything else? ...And as long as there is wireless audio transmission, there will always be radio (I don't see it as any other thing, regardless of whether the transmissions are digital or anolog). Why call it anything else? Is it really necessary in order to keep up to date in the furious race of keeping up to date? Reminds me of the change from 'phonograph' to 'record player', which, to me, was a dumbing down of the term. ...Just another era's way of leaving its mark (like a dog urinating on a tree).

T.

There are similar new terminologies that have annoyed me.

About two decades ago, big offices changed "steno pool" and "typing pool" to "word processing department." The "personnel department" became "human resources."

The "computer department" was renamed "systems department" and then became "information technologies department." It's all B.S.

If you type the word "internet," MS Word scolds you that it must be capitalized. Then why don't we capitalize the names of other important inventions, like "telephone" or "television"?
Doug

:Hmmmmmmm........ I was just reading a blog that I happened to come upon by chance when searching for information on the Zenith Tripple Hi-Ficiency Switch (which I believe I already have about as much information as I can get about). The blogger went on about this modern aspect and that one. The guy was getting hysterical about people still calling cell phones cell phones. There are all of these more modern technical names that are more appropriate for them, and we should be calling them by those names. Who cares, though? Cell is much easier to say. He went on about ice boxes and fridges. Well, in that case, fridge is quite easy to say, so why wouldn't anyone say it? He also went on to say that the words television and radio are doomed for extinction. Why would they be? ...Just so that some anti-anolog freak can have his modern words? As long as there will be long distance video programming, there will be television, and why call it anything else? ...And as long as there is wireless audio transmission, there will always be radio (I don't see it as any other thing, regardless of whether the transmissions are digital or anolog). Why call it anything else? Is it really necessary in order to keep up to date in the furious race of keeping up to date? Reminds me of the change from 'phonograph' to 'record player', which, to me, was a dumbing down of the term. ...Just another era's way of leaving its mark (like a dog urinating on a tree).
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:T.

MMmmmmmmmmmmm..... information technologies department! I feel like I'm going to be wisked away in the futuristic plasma of futurism! I'm getting all jittery with excitement!

BARF!

...So just why is it that everything new is called 'technology,' and everything old is called anolog?????????????????? GOOD GOD! Reminds me of my high school librarian. She was so thrilled with all of her gadgets and CD-roms. I thought that one day a space vessel was going to beam her away! The reaction I'd get from her whenever I'd use my 1925 Smith Corona was almost like she broke a nail (I'd usually use it when I needed to type a report, and the entire school's network was down). Funny that now I'm going to school to become a certified computer repair person. Every now and then I still like to pull out my Smith Corona. It's my personal bio-powered laptop that never fails. How environmentally friendly and modern is that? I should refrain from using words like modern and futuristic. They are terribly out-dated.

T.

Thomas,
You're a gas, and I can tell you go way back, but not in years.

marv

:MMmmmmmmmmmmm..... information technologies department! I feel like I'm going to be wisked away in the futuristic plasma of futurism! I'm getting all jittery with excitement!
:
:BARF!
:
:...So just why is it that everything new is called 'technology,' and everything old is called anolog?????????????????? GOOD GOD! Reminds me of my high school librarian. She was so thrilled with all of her gadgets and CD-roms. I thought that one day a space vessel was going to beam her away! The reaction I'd get from her whenever I'd use my 1925 Smith Corona was almost like she broke a nail (I'd usually use it when I needed to type a report, and the entire school's network was down). Funny that now I'm going to school to become a certified computer repair person. Every now and then I still like to pull out my Smith Corona. It's my personal bio-powered laptop that never fails. How environmentally friendly and modern is that? I should refrain from using words like modern and futuristic. They are terribly out-dated.
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:T.

:D

T.

:Thomas,
:You're a gas, and I can tell you go way back, but not in years.
:
:marv
:
::MMmmmmmmmmmmm..... information technologies department! I feel like I'm going to be wisked away in the futuristic plasma of futurism! I'm getting all jittery with excitement!
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::BARF!
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::...So just why is it that everything new is called 'technology,' and everything old is called anolog?????????????????? GOOD GOD! Reminds me of my high school librarian. She was so thrilled with all of her gadgets and CD-roms. I thought that one day a space vessel was going to beam her away! The reaction I'd get from her whenever I'd use my 1925 Smith Corona was almost like she broke a nail (I'd usually use it when I needed to type a report, and the entire school's network was down). Funny that now I'm going to school to become a certified computer repair person. Every now and then I still like to pull out my Smith Corona. It's my personal bio-powered laptop that never fails. How environmentally friendly and modern is that? I should refrain from using words like modern and futuristic. They are terribly out-dated.
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::T.

:Hmmmmmmm........ I was just reading a blog that I happened to come upon by chance when searching for information on the Zenith Tripple Hi-Ficiency Switch (which I believe I already have about as much information as I can get about). The blogger went on about this modern aspect and that one. The guy was getting hysterical about people still calling cell phones cell phones. There are all of these more modern technical names that are more appropriate for them, and we should be calling them by those names. Who cares, though? Cell is much easier to say. He went on about ice boxes and fridges. Well, in that case, fridge is quite easy to say, so why wouldn't anyone say it? He also went on to say that the words television and radio are doomed for extinction. Why would they be? ...Just so that some anti-anolog freak can have his modern words? As long as there will be long distance video programming, there will be television, and why call it anything else? ...And as long as there is wireless audio transmission, there will always be radio (I don't see it as any other thing, regardless of whether the transmissions are digital or anolog). Why call it anything else? Is it really necessary in order to keep up to date in the furious race of keeping up to date? Reminds me of the change from 'phonograph' to 'record player', which, to me, was a dumbing down of the term. ...Just another era's way of leaving its mark (like a dog urinating on a tree).
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:T.

Thomas, I think you are just dealing with one of those snot-nosed kids who has learned enough to be dangerous, thinks he knows everything, and wants the world to know it. I cannot recall how many of this type I have had to deal with, and someday they always make a big screw-up and slowly begin to learn that they don't know everything, and start to change from being educated to being smart.
Lewis

.... and someday they always make a big screw-up and slowly begin to learn that they don't know everything, and start to change from being educated to being smart.
:Lewis

Ha! That might be me. Well, I've never made a big screw-up, but I've made lots of small ones.

T.

:.... and someday they always make a big screw-up and slowly begin to learn that they don't know everything, and start to change from being educated to being smart.
::Lewis
:
:Ha! That might be me. Well, I've never made a big screw-up, but I've made lots of small ones.
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:T.

We don't sweat the small ones, it's the new hotshot that decides he will make an impression with the boss if he ignores long established procedures and does a job his way, which will be quicker and easier. He usually gets the bosses attention all right, but one of us oldies also caught his ire for not watching the newby. Sign seen above lead mechanic desk at Delta:

"I would rather answer your stupid question
than explain your stupid mistake"

But they didn't always ask before they acted.

Lewis

:.... and someday they always make a big screw-up and slowly begin to learn that they don't know everything, and start to change from being educated to being smart.
::Lewis
:
:Ha! That might be me. Well, I've never made a big screw-up, but I've made lots of small ones.
:
:T.

We don't sweat the small ones, it's the new hotshot that decides he will make an impression with the boss if he ignores long established procedures and does a job his way, which will be quicker and easier. He usually gets the bosses attention all right, but one of us oldies also caught his ire for not watching the newby. Sign seen above lead mechanic desk at Delta:

"I would rather answer your stupid question
than explain your stupid mistake"

But they didn't always ask before they acted.

Lewis