Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 23:16:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <9fqgnj9kle5sb9thncusua5pmt0uun3reh@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 23:16:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="15956"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2013 Lines: 23 In article <9fqgnj9kle5sb9thncusua5pmt0uun3reh@4ax.com>, The Horny Goat wrote: >On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:40:06 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer > wrote: > >>Is anybody else here old enough to have had grandparents born in >>the 19th century? Theirs arguably was the generation to have >>witnessed the greatest technological change. Neither of my two >>grandmothers, from the Midwest, ever learned to drive a car. > >No - though my grandfather (b 1901) at the end of his love kept saying >how amazing it was to be born before the Wright brothers' first flight >and seeing the TV coverage of Neil Armstrong on the moon. > My maternal grandfather Strahan served in WWI, so he must have been old enough to enlist. So probably born in the 19th century? He was a Quartermaster, second class, by the time he got the Navy Cross so probably not some tween with pasted on moustache. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll