RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?

["Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>]

LOL! What would they do if I told them how I once owned a 64 Mustang, on
which I switched out the tranny for a Hurst shifter so I could get more
than four gears? 

I studied XML. I'd rather replace a transmission. Even the one on the
@#$%^& 1965 Astro-Glide transmission that had a C-ring that DID NOT FIT
the models turned out in the first half of the year. Yet Ford did not
renumber the part; you had to know which C-ring to use for which model,
or you got a transmission that sounded like boulders tumbling in a
dryer.

BTW, the 1965 Mustand has only had two owners: my mother and me. :) We
still have the original window sticker.

Sarah
Still drives it to work

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard L Hamilton [mailto:dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:50 PM
To: Sarah Stegall
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?

I suspect half the guys on the list (or at least those over
a certain age:-) are thinking "Can clean a carburetor? Owns
a '65 Mustang? My kind of woman!"

BTW, WRT your other email, using XML is a lot easier than
keeping a '65 Mustang running:-).

Richard
(can still spell carburetor, but the only ones I've seen in
 the last 20 years were on aircraft engines:-).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+dick=rlhamilton -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com 
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+dick=rlhamilton -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- co
> m] On Behalf Of Sarah Stegall
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:15 PM
> To: voxwoman; Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?
> 
> 
> Post literate? Or maybe the technology changes too fast to 
> keep up with.
> 
> 
> I can still clean a carburetor. I can even write a procedure on how to
> do it. Trouble is, even my mechanic doesn't know what one is. Which is
> why he is not permitted to touch my 1965 Mustang.
> 
> Sarah
> vroom
> 


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