The Old Geezer's Thread.

[mongers]

.......... Bah humbug. 

[Savonarola]

Today I saw a teenage couple walking down the road arm in arm with their eyes longingly locked onto their cell phones.  Ah young love. 

[crazy canuck]

 

[Savonarola]

My grandfather owned an automotive supply company that specialized in electronics.  As he grew older he complained about all the electrical equipment that now go into cars, so that they're impossible for a layman to repair.

Savonarola:  Well, grandpa, who's fault is that?

I was reminded of that the last time I was in Detroit.  At Greenfield Village around Christmastime they have an old fashioned Christmas where the village is decorated as it would have been the various eras the buildings came from (18th Century to the Second World War.)  It's always a crowded event, and most of the crowd this year was celebrating an old fashioned Christmas with the old fashioned Christmas tradition of staring at their phones like zombies.  I was going to complain, but I realized I had designed at least some of the cellular towers they were connected to.