You know you're old when...

[shoei]

Originally Posted by dscabra

It's the negatives used to produce the prints or reprints.

Got it got it. So it's not a picture viewer but a camera?! So small and compact for being old tech!! Yeah I've never seen that type of film or camera for that matter. I'm assuming that type of film was horrendous for it to die out.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by shoei

This thing is kind of trippy. I can't make sense of the picture wheel thing on the side. Is it like this view master thing?

That thing looks familiar. Think my daughter might've had a camera (?) like that.

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by shoei

Got it got it. So it's not a picture viewer but a camera?! So small and compact for being old tech!! Yeah I've never seen that type of film or camera for that matter. I'm assuming that type of film was horrendous for it to die out.

I had one and liked it, but the big limitation was in the number of photos/disc compared with the larger 36 exposure rolls of film.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by shoei

Speaking of school. I'm glad I've used my algebra and fractions every day of my adult life. I dunno I would've made it without algebra. And whatever useless shit they taught me.

Could've taught me how to balance a check book. Make you sign up for a fucking checking account but don't teach you how to use it.

x3 + 1 and (y4x2 + 2xy – y)/(x – 1) = 12 is far more critical as you can see. And no, I just copied and pasted. I said they taught me algebra. I never said I retained it.

Times tables were the most valuable math thing I learned in school. I can still use them to break down a multiplication problem and solve it in my head. I don't think they make kids memorize those any more.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Times tables were the most valuable math thing I learned in school. I can still use them to break down a multiplication problem and solve it in my head. I don't think they make kids memorize those any more.

That would be bad. Those are very valuable. A Necessity.

[shoei]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Times tables were the most valuable math thing I learned in school. I can still use them to break down a multiplication problem and solve it in my head. I don't think they make kids memorize those any more.

Yep. Still utilize it to this day, lol.

That and the days of the month jingle.

"30 days have (hath?) September. April June and November. All the rest have 31, except February which has 28. But on a leap year, it has 29…."

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by shoei

This thing is kind of trippy. I can't make sense of the picture wheel thing on the side. Is it like this view master thing?

It's a Kodak disc film camera, targeting consumers who were inept at winding 35mm film onto the camera spool or using a 110 film cartridge. Each "petal" was a tiny photo negative. The small size of the image made picture quality horrible at larger print sizes, which is why it was a commercial flop.....

[shoei]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

It's a Kodak disc film camera, targeting consumers who were inept at winding 35mm film onto the camera spool or using a 110 film cartridge. Each "petal" was a tiny photo negative. The small size of the image made picture quality horrible at larger print sizes, which is why it was a commercial flop.....

I figured that disk looking thing probably wouldn't hold up well and it's so tiny be hard to see the print.

I remember they had us do the "red room" in school and develop prints. I thought it was pretty cool how the pictures would start to materialize like someone had written something with invisible ink or lemon juice lol.

[Nativetexan]

You pull your back sneezing.

I did this yesterday morning : / lol

[TKDbilly]

Originally Posted by dscabra

RPN?

Yes and we would have races in college to perform complex calculations using RPN against standard calculators requiring the use of an '=' key. Needless to say RPN won every time.

[zgood4u]

My dad and I used to install these back in the 60's

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by zgood4u

My dad and I used to install these back in the 60's

Back when cars rode smooth enough to play a record (sort of ).

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by shoei

Which ones older? Lol

Definitely older, but only good at basic math, not more complex math such as logarithms, which is where the slide rule was very useful. My calculator of choice today is my trusty TI-89, but I rely more on MATLAB than anything in my day-to-day calculating needs.

[zgood4u]

Originally Posted by dscabra

Back when cars rode smooth enough to play a record (sort of ).

Actually it was a pretty clever design, the player mechanism was spring loaded and the needle was too and faced up so it never skipped. The side you wanted to play was loaded face down.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by shoei

Yep. Still utilize it to this day, lol.

That and the days of the month jingle.

"30 days have (hath?) September. April June and November. All the rest have 31, except February which has 28. Until leap year, makes it 29…."

FTFY

I think this is the most useful bit of trivia I ever learned!

When I was walking (uphill, both ways, in the snow, with no shoes, dragging my stone tablet and chisel) to school, my buddy and I would recite this, or quiz each other on "times table".

4yo grand nephew is about done with his alphabet, and is moving on to addition now. MAYBE there's hope.

[Psychotic Mouse]

Originally Posted by shoei

Speaking of school. I'm glad I've used my algebra and fractions every day of my adult life. I dunno I would've made it without algebra. And whatever useless shit they taught me.

Could've taught me how to balance a check book. Make you sign up for a fucking checking account but don't teach you how to use it.

x3 + 1 and (y4x2 + 2xy – y)/(x – 1) = 12 is far more critical as you can see. And no, I just copied and pasted. I said they taught me algebra. I never said I retained it.

It’s not so much the fundamentals of algebra that is taught, but I like to think it taught me problem solving in a logical manner, and logic it’s self.

[TKDbilly]

You backpack 6 miles with a 3,000 ft elevation climb; spend two nights at a gorgeous alpine lake nestled between two 14 ft peaks and hike back out.

Oh wait, at 63 maybe this isn't representative of knowing you are getting old but the antithesis.

You are as young as you demonstrate in life ...

[erickonphoenix]

Not sure if this is indicative of our age, alcoholism or the poor quality of the Lifetime Movie Network.

However, last night the misses and I got all the way through one of their shitty films and still couldn't sort if we'd seen it before.

[nazali]

Viagara no longer works
and you prefer a cup of tea and a marie biscuit (double dunked)

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by Psychotic Mouse

It’s not so much the fundamentals of algebra that is taught, but I like to think it taught me problem solving in a logical manner, and logic it’s self.

This is me. Order of operations, couldn't tell you. Shid, the vast majority of anything in Algebra I/II, I did not retain. The reverse engineering and problem solving is what stuck with me. I'm not paid to know everything, I'm paid to be resourceful.

Analogy time: The people that post questions here without googling = other employees and my superiors. The guy that googles the question, researches and finds the solution = me + paycheck.

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by nazali

Viagara no longer works
and you prefer a cup of tea and a marie biscuit (double dunked)

I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure you have to be a man for Viagara to work.

.......wait.....it worked before??? Now I'm intrigued, but unsure if I really want to know what happened.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

The guy that googles the question, researches and finds the solution = me + paycheck.

In my career as an IT pro, the line I heard most often was, "How do you know all this stuff?"

I just told them it was experience. But a good portion of the time it was knowing how to use Google.