obidankenobi (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} obidankenobi) wrote,@ 2008-04-18 20:31:00 |
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I've done that just as badly
Ryan Adams has dyed his hair blonde.
Anyway, I've completed my first week at TV3 - how fast did the week go, goddamn!? I suppose that's what you get when you get a job you actually like and isn't the same thing over and over and over, and you know you're at pretty much the bottom and can only go up.
I got a small kick today to see a headline I wrote appear as the lead in news.google.co.nz's Sci/Tech section. I wasn't expecting it, and only wrote it an hour earlier, so to stumble across it randomly was pretty cool.
I have a huge list of things to do tomorrow - get a bike pump, fix bike, remove bike from Vulcan Lane, buy a jacket and a man bag, get receipts /quotes for stolen gear, drop off store key to Saturday staff, buy some blank CDs (optional), check mail, return library books, and maybe get a haircut. I'm not going to do things in that order, though cause that'd be inefficient.
I came across this article through Fark, and thought it'd make a good 'meme' of sorts. It's supposedly a list of 'obsolete' skills - how many do you still use?
Last time I did this was probably 2002/3. I had a typewriter for typing out 'final' versions of lyrics, before I had a computer.
Did this a month or two back, to watch some cricket or Lost or something. Hardest part was rearranging all the leads to make it work.
I last had rabbit ears in... 2001/2, when I was living downstairs, a whole floor from the aerial.
I've never done this.
Was probably four or five years ago, at a guess. My current computer doesn't even have a disk drive, I don't think.
Some websites still need this, like my AUT log-in last year.
This is one I haven't done in a while, maybe 5 years, but some pros still swear by film.
As above. I used one at tech, about nine years ago.
Well, stamps don't wet themselves... so this still happens regularly.
I don't think I've ever paid with a cheque, so it was obsolete by the time EFTPOS came along.
Sometimes you're out of credit, but I don't think I've used one in a few years. I'd use them more if they still took coins, though.
Online, I've done it occasionally. I think I used the actual Yellow Pages to look up a taxi when I was in Wellington last month actually.
Sometimes I have to rearrange leads...
I blew into my (now deceased) PS1 at work to make it read discs better earlier this year.
Well, that's how they're arranged, so how else would I find a book?! This isn't obsolete.
I haven't worn a watch permanently in about two decades.
Despite my maths achievements at school (captain of winning Waimaths team 1992, 93% in School Cert, when I was 14, etc etc) I don't think I ever properly mastered long division, embarrassingly enough...
I did this a month or two ago - I was in the car, and wanted to know (turned out to be Glass Candy).
Is this really a skill? Well, I haven't done it in about 15 years anyway.
I'm not sure I've ever done this. But how is it an obsolete skill?
Never done this.
I haven't done that since primary school, probably.
I never liked doing this back in the day - but it was worth it. But microwaves are much easier and they don't burn you as much.
I used to cook microwave pies in the oven, but not for a few years now...
Sometimes, the remote gets lost in the couch. Or, like at work today, there are four remotes and no one knows which one it is that makes the volume work.
Cheaper to get a new one, isn't it?
As above...
Batteries take water?! This one sounds obsolete due to some application of the Darwin Award, if you ask me...
It's not much of a skill compared to riding a proper bike.
There are so many things around with the time on them, there's no point - considering its always the first in line to be unplugged when something else needs power.
Well, that's not so much obsolete as non-existent.
People consider that a skill? I probably last did it when I recorded that Lost/cricket.
I hardly write with a pen anymore - I saw my handwriting at work today and realised I had to concentrate in order to make it legible, even to myself.
I never knew of this trick - damn, that's not obsolete if it still works!
I played REM's Green a couple of months back on vinyl, and if you're gonna go to the lengths of listening to something on vinyl, you've gotta have the scratchy noise.
I still remember the camera my mum had when I was a kid, those flash cubes were expensive. Popped in flash batteries no more than six or seven years ago, but cubes? Twenty.
Chokes are only obsolete if you have something better, like a dropkick or a sleeper hold. I probably last used a choke in one of my childhood fights with my brother.
You don't clean them. The scratches are supposed to be there. And you've still got to clean CDs every now and then.
I've done this LOADS of times... accidentally... but why is it obsolete?
I'm sure this became obsolete 30 years before I was born.
Well, I've done this hundreds of time over the last few years - creating transfer invoices for stock. What easier way to create multiple copies is there than carbon paper?
Once again, obsolete before I was born...
I was the master of this back in the day. Last time I did it? Probably ten years ago - I'd long graduated to getting CDs from the library and taping songs I liked onto tapes using my mum's friend's CD-tape player by then...
What now?
I wrote one to my nana last year, actually. I'm not sure she uses the email.
I could never do this, and never needed it, so it was obsolete from the start.
I think we're going to get one of these at our new place, actually. Otherwise, never done it...
I remember this happening all the time, and somewhere along the way it stopped, and I only just noticed! Woah.
I still see this in shit bakeries, but haven't done it since I was at Hindsight CDs in 2001/2.
It doesn't need cleaning, the scratches are supposed to be there, etc... But I did sell a VHS cleaning kit to a lady a few weeks ago.
WTF?! When was this not obsolete?! How does it become obsolete?! Weird.
