On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 03:38:36PM +1000, Thaths wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 3:01 PM Alok Prasanna Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > About 6 numbers for me: parents' and a few close friends. > > > > Me too. Basically, any number that I had to dial regularly back in the days > before mobile/smartphones existed. So I remember my parent's landline, but > not my brothers mobile number (which he got in the smartphone-era). > > And weirdly, the number I had ten years ago in college. > > > > And these ancient numbers have turned into PIN numbers for my various cards > and unlock screens these days. > > Speaking of skills obsoleted by technology... what other skills do we no > longer use?
Handwriting. After realizing I might join the club of loosers, I planned and reintroduced manual writing back into my day. Not as much as when I was taking notes every day, but still. Those are small pages for humanity, but big pages for a human. Now I have a habit to have a notebook(s) and some pens around me, whenever I might want to reach them. Also, I actually take notes from read books, on paper. > One thing that comes to mind for me is using card catalogues in libraries. I have not lost it and I still do many of the things mentioned in this subthread. -> "talking to strangers in order to ask for way" I am thrilled that some people might be loosing ability to talk with their voices. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
