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If you guys have some great material that is print only please scan some and share! It will live forever on the internet!
End Of An Era
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Chubbo
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It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but swallow it we must, If one wants to stay currently informed, and try to participate in society. The alternate choice is to lay dormant, and wait for God to release us from our misery.
As always, there are three opinions in every discussion, “Yours, Mine, and Ours”.
I thoroughly enjoy, reading daily, both, reading 'real books', and using the amenities of a Kindle, E-Reader, Electronic Book, by Amazon. Conversely, I just bought two ‘real’ books, to replace books, in my library that were lost in time, in my youth.
As always, there are three opinions in every discussion, “Yours, Mine, and Ours”.
I thoroughly enjoy, reading daily, both, reading 'real books', and using the amenities of a Kindle, E-Reader, Electronic Book, by Amazon. Conversely, I just bought two ‘real’ books, to replace books, in my library that were lost in time, in my youth.
I have a firearms reference library that I have assembled over the last 45 years or so. I have a copy of almost every issue of American Handgunner ever printed. i have Gun Digests going back generations. I've enjoyed them all, and still have cause to look something up from them.
But since the years seem to be passing by faster and faster, I needed to figure out what to do with my reference library other than letting someone put it in the landfill. Happily, my adoptive family has provided a solution. I have often made mention of the young man I refer to as my honorary nephew (I'm a friend of the family and addressed as "Uncle"), who is a practicing attorney specializing in firearms law. I have already set out that when I pass on, he will get my reference library. When that day comes, he'll see the truck with my reference library coming to his office.
Never made it from the U-Tote'm to home without the comic already folded in a back pocket. Forward to the same thing with a magazine convenient from the easy chair to the throne folded in half for ease of one handedness. Another fold for the back pocket for a timely break under a tree or swatting a loony child, goofball dog or a horsefly.
Cant do that with a smart screen.
Cant do that with a smart screen.
CAJUNLAWYER
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Ain't our world any more....and we are not the first generation to realize this inevitable progression of time and technology. I suspect when today's young'uns are our age they will bemoaning what used to be and deriding the new wave of technology the future young'uns are using.
It is the way of the world. Sit back, smile and accept it gracefully. Hang on to the old ways just because and be grumpy to thr young'uns as it is expected of us. But under that veneer remember that change is usually for the better.
I do not miss my slide rulers, and the striker fured large capacity 9's make more sense than the Model 10. That doesn't mean we can't long for the olden days but let's not be dicks about it
It is the way of the world. Sit back, smile and accept it gracefully. Hang on to the old ways just because and be grumpy to thr young'uns as it is expected of us. But under that veneer remember that change is usually for the better.
I do not miss my slide rulers, and the striker fured large capacity 9's make more sense than the Model 10. That doesn't mean we can't long for the olden days but let's not be dicks about it
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AJ
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I have taught my oldest Grandson the love of printed books. He values the ones he has and hopefully the ones that I leave for him..............
PPS1980
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The only downside of the iPad that I can see is that I can't use it to block out everyone else like I could with the newspaper at the breakfast table
There still is a place for knowing the principles behind a process, whether the process is carried out manually or by some whiz-bang electronic computerized machine. I worked with real property descriptions for decades. I could take the metes and bounds legal description in a deed and draw a picture of the configuration of the property as described. Eventually there were deed plotting programs developed for computers. I couldn't work the computer program to save my life, but the computer and I with my hand tools could come to the same result because in both cases the same principles for legal descriptions were used. When my replacement at the firm I left in 2002 died, the firm asked me to come in back in 2019 to teach about the principles of legal descriptions of land, so whether hand tools or computer programs were used, the people would be grounded in these principles in order to have an understanding of what made of a good legal description of a parcel of land. A reference to a bearing and distance of "North 30 degrees 22 minutes 55 seconds 453.89 feet to the oak tree" may sound archaic, but whether you use hand tools or a computer, it is these bearings and distances that establish how a parcel of land is described.
Whether pixelized or inked a font is a font is a font.
CAJUNLAWYER
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Serif or sans serif??
