Originally posted by tim60 I hate stuff with little springs inside so all the bits jump out unexpectedly all over the place when you take them apart.
In my mechanicing days I disassembled stuff with big springs inside. They could make the bits jump out quite unexpectedly, and violently too.
But we built a tool to contain the stuff springs and bits, and release the stored energy slowly.
And safely.
Originally posted by tim60 How awful, looking at internet on such a little screen. So limits my view of the world to a scrap only.
I feel the same way.
People constantly thrust their tiny screens at me to show off some silly meme with a cat or some human doing something odd, or share a crappy video of the next Darwin Award nominee.
It occurs to me that, almost overnight, a very large portion of the world population has embraced these devices. You can see them, everywhere, completely focused on that tiny screen, oblivious to anything beyond the reach of their spindly arms.
They stop suddenly in the supermarket aisle, to do whatever it is that these things are demanding of them, without regard to those around them, or any inconvenience they may be causing.
While driving they focus more on that damn screen than they do driving. That should be a capital offense.
At work you see them. They should be working, after all, that's what they are getting paid for, right?
Go to a restaurant. Entire families at a table having dinner. Not socializing with each other. No. Totally consumed, each by a tiny screen.
Zombies.
And you know what?
Many of these people appear to be as weird and screwed up as those Darwin Award nominees they are watching.
That concerns me.