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Skriven 2009-03-16 18:51:08 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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->  ML> Which would be beyond the capabilities or ambitions of
->  ML> most of us, I'm afraid.
->  DS> Ambitions above all, I reckon.  I bet just about anyone in the
->  DS> echo, at least, could handle a soldering iron pretty well.
-> 
-> Shows what I get for pulling my punches (again).
-> 
-> Even I, technological nincompoop, can work a soldering iron,
-> though unless I get close enough to nearly choke on the smoke,
-> I make big blobs of silver goo all over unanticipated places.
-> 
I can do considerably better than that, but then again I had my dad's train
set to work on for decades.  I haven't done jewelry work (sterling silver,
actual flame torch whatsit, flux, etc) in yoinks, but it's not that much
harder. 

->  DS> bin it because the cord got frayed.
->  DS> Did they stop teaching stuff like that in schools?
-> 
-> I think they stopped teaching a lot of stuff in the schools.

In lots of places that's true.  My old high school still has an auto shop,
so they still must teach some of it.   The technical high schools are a
different story; they all have major shop classes.

->  DS> change.  Why the hell isn't something that basic in the
->  DS> curriculum any more?
-> 
-> Yah, what I said.

They let 'em use calculators to take the SATs! You don't learn to do
decimal math that way. You learn how to tell a computer to do it.  I got a
piece of scrap paper, but that was it.  To this day I still mostly do basic
math in my head. 
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