Signs that you've had TOO MUCH Computing ~
1) You try to enter your password on the microwave.
2) You email your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he emails you back, "What's for dinner dad?"
3) Your daughter sets up a web site to sell Girl Scout Cookies.
4) You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
Too Little Computing If You Don't Know Any Of The Following ~
1) First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
2) The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
3) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
- Spades - King David
- Clubs - Alexander the Great
- Hearts-Charlemagne
- Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
4) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
5) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
6) Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
7) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
8) The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
9) The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
10) The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
11) Tell you a secret with nothing to do with computing: the Blog Pic here 3 friends insisted it was me when I was younger. It's not. It looks however almost a double of me 20 years or so ago.
11) Tell you a secret with nothing to do with computing: the Blog Pic here 3 friends insisted it was me when I was younger. It's not. It looks however almost a double of me 20 years or so ago.
