Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 21, 2020

You were born with a calculator, your Brian.

Who is Brian ? :o)

I just point out to my students that they need to be smarter than their calculator, or they won’t know when they punched something in wrong and got a garbage result.

Is it a calcuSooner in Oklahoma?

Sorry while Janis is taking the measurements I would not be looking at my phone!

You don’t need the tape measure either, there’s an app for that

You know, if he wasn’t taking snaps of Janis bent over he would have the measurements for the area they need.

What is she measuring?

Janis has a great future behind her!

We keep calling them phones when they’re morphing into Swiss army palmtop computers with every new app.

I think even my keychain has a built in calculator.

What new project does she have?

Calculator LOL – - maybe “slide-rule”

She better watch outt be bending over in front of arlo

And here I was thinking he was taking snaps of her rear end!

Reminds me of the number of times that I have given the young cashier some coins over the amount due so that I could get a bill back instead of more change. (The price is $4.07 and you give them a $5 bill and 7c.).

They look at the register’s numbers, then at the amount in hand, then at you and then back at the register. Shrug their shoulders and put the amount paid into the register and then stare at the register numbers again to see what they should give you back.

Yet many of the old gang wonder why so many of the younger generations are in heavy debt and cannot understand what double digit %age interest on their debt means.

Yep, the older generation said that one day you won’t have a calculator, when really they just didn’t trust new technology. Using technology is what makes us human. Maybe one day we won’t have clothes, so we’d better start conditioning ourselves now.

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The greater irony of that memory is that I don’t always have a pencil and paper handy.

Loadmastering without a calculator. Some will understand. :-)

I think everyone’s high school math teacher owes them an apology. (At least everyone over the age of 30)

I want to know who measured faster, Arlo or Janis? A good test for Arlo’s technology.

I bought my first small calculator in 1972 when I was stationed in Japan. I still have it.

Am I seeing things, or has Janis become a bit more ‘matronly’?

Okay – related to how old they are – I graduated high school in 1971 – we did not use calculators in school so no one would have said that to us. My dad, an accountant, bought his first calculator – a relatively large, non-printing one – after I had been dating my husband for awhile – say in 1976 maybe.