Being alive is a gas. 
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Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Great typewriter. Do you use it?
From time to time. Ink my own ribbons, lol, no hope for the old red/blacks though.
Learned to type on it, so many years ago, Mom watching like a hawk for home key drift and numbers cheating.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Being alive is a gas.
I forgot 'its a gas.' And you are right, cool man (snapping his fingers in the AF coffee shop while the poets drone on, endlessly, surrounded by the smoke of other hipsters . . .) I'm hip, man. Groovy.
There is another thing for the list. Hipsters and poets reading poetry in a dive filled with smoke while the bad poets drone on and on. Fingers snapping approval.
Jack. Kerorak. Real. Is. Real.
(spelling on his name, it's been a while
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(spelling on his name, it's been a while
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Bob Maxey
Android Expert
From time to time. Ink my own ribbons, lol, no hope for the old red/blacks though.
Learned to type on it, so many years ago, Mom watching like a hawk for home key drift and numbers cheating.
My mom did the same thing. She was a secretary for many years and when I had to take type in school, she became a Catholic school Nun with a ruler.
She also freaked out when she was so much as a penny over or under when she balanced the checkbook.
Court stenographer and legal secretary. I got off easy on that machine and shorthand. My sisters, not so much!
I had a two color ledger by the time we had Cub Scout dues, kept one there ever after.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Jack. Kouroak. Real. Is. Real.
(spelling on his name, it's been a while
LOL . . . yup. Those days are gone. Not sure if that is good or bad. Like the legitimate hippy. I am sure I think I miss them. Hippies of today are nothing like those from 1960 or so.
I love this song:
Scott McKenzie - San Francisco - YouTube
I have always absolutely and totally loved that song. Not sure why; it might be that I remember the times (I was 12 at the time) and by God, things were great and we kids were not aware of the world's problems.
RIP, Scott.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
the old ho trains, i had a great set my dad and i made with tunnels, houses, cars, street lights, ect... and my two younger brothers played king kong vs godzilla on it and when my father seen what happened, well you can just imagine what happened in the olden days. ( i cried for them) but in the end we all turned out ok.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Are those yours? If so very cool. If not, still very cool. I am amazed at how adults have adopted the toys I remember and made then uber cool and costly to be sure. Not just expansive train layouts shown in the magazines, but things like R/C airplanes. For example:
Very, very, very fast Turbine powered RC Jet - YouTube
The fun starts about 6 minutes in.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
no those are not mine, sorry. i have a rc boat 4' long with a weedeater motor. when you put gps in it, it goes 52 mph. now a friend of mines goes 86mph.
this one is mine and is pretty cool to play with. kinda makes you feel like a kid again.
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
"Jumpin Jack Flash, it's a gas"
Are you still grokkin' it?
That's another old one if you remember.
Are you still grokkin' it?
That's another old one if you remember.
Today we move ever towards hands free technology: voice commands and motion sensing input. Before that we were introduced to touch-screen interface: a life without buttons. This came after buttons ruled the world. Everything had buttons! Before that was dials. Even "computers" used dials. My first microwave, t.v., and radio all used dials.
Before that, I guess I don't know.
Use-your-imagination is what.
Before that, I guess I don't know.
Use-your-imagination is what.
Just be sure that the pads don't come in contact with the aluminum foil hat, could leave a burn mark.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
I remember "its a gas" and I like totally forgot "grokkin it." And I remember people adding "like totally" to sentences. I do not think I like totally used that one, however.
Battleship anyone!
I have a Battleship set. Not that color scheme, but it plays the same.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
I have a Battleship set. Not that color scheme, but it plays the same.
I remember when the electronic 1 came out. We thought that that was the best thing ever . Use the regular 1 for a long time till the electronic 1 came out.
I have a Battleship set. Not that color scheme, but it plays the same.
I remember my brother had the electronic version! So fun.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
once you finally got it all entered in then fun.
Exactly lol
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
I have a Battleship set. Not that color scheme, but it plays the same.
I think the blue and red versions are for the Crips and Bloods. "You drived by and caped my battleship, Dawg!"
cwhatever
Life Goes On
this one was the best we played for hours with this in the 70's i'd still play with this today
never tried this one
you can still get these, one for $6 the other is $8 at this place
http://androidforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=4967053
never tried this one
you can still get these, one for $6 the other is $8 at this place
http://androidforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=4967053
this one was the best we played for hours with this in the 70's i'd still play with this today
!!! These shot country mile.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
until the pump got messed up from over pumping it up.