Skills falling away into the past

[nancylebov]

"Things I Used to Know"-- it's actually more like "skills I used to have a reason to use"-- I bet I could still tune an old fashioned color tv if one of them crossed my path.

Link thanks to yhlee.

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[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Slide rule.

I actually got out one of my two slide rules a number of months ago; I had mislaid my calculator and was doing some game writing that required taking cube roots, and I felt disinclined to do the successive approximations by hand. I could still use at least the basic functions.