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Matthew Braun  
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 More options Sep 8 2011, 2:56 pm
From: Matthew Braun <mjbr...@leydenjar.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:56:58 -0500
Local: Thurs, Sep 8 2011 2:56 pm
Subject: Re: [PS1-Public] Interesting Article: Why Your Teenager Can’t Use A Hammer
See also:

http://obsoleteskills.com/skills/commonsense

--
Matthew Braun
mjbr...@leydenjar.com

On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Rhys Rhaven wrote:

> Most of these are making me angry actually.
> http://obsoleteskills.com/skills/isdn While the public called the 128K
> bonded lines they could buy in the 90's "ISDN" they actually misnamed
> it. Just like everything else. Its actually a set of standards that are
> quite relevant today. What people call "T1s" and "PRIs" are part of ISDN.

> On 09/08/2011 01:52 PM, Matthew Braun wrote:
>> http://obsoleteskills.com/skills/blowingthedustoutofanintendocartridge

>> I used this technique on an USB cable a few weeks ago and I was struck by the similarity. Obsolete? Hardly.

>> --
>> Matthew Braun
>> mjbr...@leydenjar.com

>> On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Rhys Rhaven wrote:

>>> Or more appropriately, hard to have a welder in your overvalued surban
>>> development home when you incur massive credit card debt and can't pay
>>> for your SUV.

>>> Related: http://obsoleteskills.com/skills/skills

>>> On 09/08/2011 01:35 PM, Matthew Braun wrote:
>>>> I imagine urbanization also has something to do with it. Kind of hard to practice welding or working with powertools (or having any kind of workshop) when you live in a highrise.

>>>> --
>>>> Matthew Braun
>>>> mjbr...@leydenjar.com

>>>> On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Rhys Rhaven wrote:

>>>>> Last straw. Many of these are non-sequitur anecdotes.

>>>>> Generation $X is retarded. They don't ask why, they don't know what a
>>>>> transmission does, they don't read those amazing "How $Y works" books as
>>>>> kids. And yet a small group of gen $X does, and will learn anything that
>>>>> they need.

>>>>> On 09/08/2011 01:07 PM, Rob Smith wrote:
>>>>>> That is sad, but it is what happens when a society ships all its
>>>>>> skilled labor jobs off-shore.
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