The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 17, 2020

It must be introduced to their life about kindergarten age!

That’s why they can’t change a flat, check the oil, set the timing, or change a burned out taillight bulb. But they can figure out a way around parental controls, bypass security codes, and know exactly where to set the ambush on Fortnight!! Luckily new cars are LED, computer controlled, with run flat tires. 57 Chevy!! Yea I can tune one of those!!

They’ve never seen a ‘57 Chevy, or if they have they have no nostalgia for them. My grandfather owned a Franklin auto, 100 years ago. My dad told me many stories about his adventures driving it, but I never wanted one myself. Sometimes it’s more fun to choose your own goals.

My brain has a spot for computers/tech, ‘57 Chevy, and… dang, it’s missing the “hard work” section. No, no, that’s not right, that section is actually filled with “physical and mental disabilities.” Damn I knew I was broken.

78 Regal came off the stands for its seasonal use yesterday! just to keep my memory refreshed……

One guy’s Chevy is another guy’s Macintosh.

That spot for 57 Chevies is alive and well for me.. supplemented with pictures.

Nice icon DW. That used to be the wallpaper of a desktop I used to have.

I got the ’57 Chevy and computers, so what am I missing. Oh yeah, a life.

The phrase “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants” has been around for several years. As I vaguely recall 1980 is the birth year breakpoint between the two. I consider myself a moderately well assimilated immigrant.

I got my first computer when my kids were quite young, so they grew up with them. I learned about computers at work, and maintained them, so I was never afraid of them, either. I wasn’t a programmer, just a hardware tech, so I’m still not a programmer. I keep up with hardware, though.

A lot of it is reading the manual(s) and trial and error.

Except that now the kids are wizards on social media but wouldn’t know a jumper from an EIDE. The ones who used to build their computers were the first and second generation of users.

While I am very computer savvy (now I did not grow up with them), I still prefer to work on my ’68 Barracuda or my ’70 Challenger. ’57 Chevys never did float my boat.

Okay, boomer