|
|
|
|
|
 |
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
|
News - Front page article in today's Wall Street Journal about Walter Shawlee and his "Slide Rule Universe" Web site:
Comment - The article says that collecting vintage slide rules is a big and profitable business.
When I was in high school (maybe Dave, too), there was no such thing as electronic calculators, let alone PCs. To do math and science calculations, you used trig tables from a math book and figured out everything by hand...or you used a slide rule, which is kind of like an analog calculator.
For us math and science geeks back then, it was the height of cool (at least to us) to have a fancy slide rule. There was something elegantly functional about the way it looked. It was a device with a purpose and it served that purpose very well. Of course, they are all obsolete now.
News - New York City and eastern
seaboard dig out from blizzard: h
Comment - The Washington Post has a good slide show of photos. I'm sure glad
it wasn't this weekend that we were scheduled for our trip to NYC!
|
 |
 |
|
 |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||