An interesting conversation occurred recently involving a person that I had built a computer for and yer's truly. The computer was nothing special being that it was built from junk I had laying about and would be (if purchased new) about four to five years out of dated, but it ran good and was reliable...

The individual and his wife (the primary user of the computer) were giving it back after their grande experiment into the digital age because they had decided to buy something new that had all the bells and whistles. So I had been successful in my attempt bring them at least into the late twentieth century, and for this I am proud...

For reasons that are unclear to me though there is probably a fine explanation as to why it happened, but this fails to reach my the space in my brain that governs understanding, the conversation turned to children in the digital age and what would happen if the world could no longer provide power to run all the gizmos and thingies that make this world function. Seems we've came to some kind of agreement that without computers and calculators and cell phones, the world would cease to exist...

This is a shame though apparently true. When I learned math and science and school, calculators and/or computers were not permitted for any of the course work except in advanced courses like physics or statistics. A student had to understand the process of deriving an answer and had to be able to show the process on paper. Seems that now teachers are less interested in the process and only require a correct answer to problem, and are more interested in teaching calculator and/or computer skills...

Guess it all goes back to the old cliché: those who do, do; those who can't, teach. Funny though when their contracts are up, the argument that is always used to justify them receiving more money for what they do is the fact that if they don't make more money, they will have to go work in the private sectors thus depriving the students of high quality teachers...

Hell, I should've been a teacher. I mean I took two senior citizens who never wanted to join the digital age and I got them excited enough to actually leave their fears behind and take the first step on the information super highway, just imagine what I could do with someone who didn't have any preconceived notions and went willingly down the road to the future...

But dammit! I want more money or I'll take my skills to the private sector!!! Um... well... guess I already have done so. So all I can really say is, "Kids, yer on yer own. I gots me money to make..."

And now I can wonder about what point I was trying to make with all these words that you are now reading...

There are times when I feel as dumb as a stump in a field or a kid without a computer and/or calculator who is asked to do trig through I would just apply my knowledge of SohCahTao and grab me a trig table and cipher it out myself...

Alas, the world will cease to exist...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be the Word...