Economics of Sea Monkeys

RRP

Ozzie_Isaac said:

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Problem is, this crew is mostly retired and they drink all week.  So every day has become Friday.

me thinks you are probably just jealous…”engineer boy”!!!

Please don’t be offended by that term! When I grew up in the late 50’s all us “boys” who were deemed “bright” were encouraged to take all the math and science classes offered since to become an engineer of any type was what AMERICA NEEDED! 

Slide rules on belt loops were more cool than football letters worn by the jocks!

Then being from MO during that era several of my classmates went on to Rolla, MO where graduating engineers had jobs just waiting for them!

Me? I loved the math aspect, but I used it toward my accounting degree instead, but I still received a minor in math! 

OK? “engineer boy”?

I am jealous, but I have a plan!  And I have definitely been called worse than engineer boy! 🤣.

I didn't realize Missouri had reached statehood when you were a boy, let alone have a University!

..you and the horse you rode in on, engineer boy!

Dyal_SC

Oh snap!  

Foghorn

"Slide rules on belt loops were more cool than football letters worn by the jocks!"


I'm not RRP's age but I'm going to have to call BS on that.  That's like saying "in the 1970s, the guys who played Dungeons and Dragons got all the chicks"

RRP

Foghorn said:

"Slide rules on belt loops were more cool than football letters worn by the jocks!"


I'm not RRP's age but I'm going to have to call BS on that.  That's like saying "in the 1970s, the guys who played Dungeons and Dragons got all the chicks"

Different era, different community, different football team 

Foghorn

RRP said:

Foghorn said:

"Slide rules on belt loops were more cool than football letters worn by the jocks!"


I'm not RRP's age but I'm going to have to call BS on that.  That's like saying "in the 1970s, the guys who played Dungeons and Dragons got all the chicks"

Different era, different community, different football team 

Fair enough.  It's hard to fathom, but I wasn't there.

And don't get me wrong.  I get that nerds have always ended up with better lives than the jocks on average - on a lot of levels.  I've just never heard of any context in which a slide rule was cool to anyone other than other nerds with slide rules.

Bringing this back on topic, I've never heard of sea monkeys making anyone cool either.

Ozzie_Isaac

Dyal_SC

Engineers are cool these days too. I heard they were not all just Reading Railroad train conductors anymore. 

caliking

Foghorn said:

RRP said:

Foghorn said:

"Slide rules on belt loops were more cool than football letters worn by the jocks!"


I'm not RRP's age but I'm going to have to call BS on that.  That's like saying "in the 1970s, the guys who played Dungeons and Dragons got all the chicks"

Different era, different community, different football team 

Fair enough.  It's hard to fathom, but I wasn't there.

And don't get me wrong.  I get that nerds have always ended up with better lives than the jocks on average - on a lot of levels.  I've just never heard of any context in which a slide rule was cool to anyone other than other nerds with slide rules.

Bringing this back on topic, I've never heard of sea monkeys making anyone cool either.

This reminds me of a (very brief) moment of admiration directed towards me in senior year of high school.

No calculators allowed for science classes, and definitely not during exams. I didn't know what a graphing calculator was until I got to college. We were allowed to use log tables, which would be stacked at the front of the exam room. Nobody ever used them during exams. Except me! I learned and practiced how to use logarithms for calculations, and would finish physics exams much earlier than my friends. 

Like I said, the moment of admiration was very brief. 

Botch

caliking said:
No calculators allowed for science classes, and definitely not during exams. I didn't know what a graphing calculator was until I got to college. We were allowed to use log tables, which would be stacked at the front of the exam room. Nobody ever used them during exams. Except me! 

You and I must be close to the same age (63?).  I had a "simple" calculator in high school, continued to use a slide rule until graduation (much faster but the third/fourth significant digit usually were off).  
I couldn't get a date for my senior prom (acne: the ultimate Birth Control) and I ended up buying my first HP scientific calculator that night, in preparation for college (I still have my Ultimate Geek plaque, proudly displayed).  Sigh.  
 
Edit:  Hmm, I may be a bit older, I didn't get a graphing calculator until after college, my HP-48SX.  (Ultimate Geek update plate for my plaque, en route)  

Braggart