In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.
Just bear well in mind that you're the 21st C. equivalent to the guy making jokes about Custer, Indians, and John Phillip Sousa to kids born in 1900.
I stopped talking to people about the Apollo landings when I realized that for most of them, I was telling them about trench warfare at Verdun rolled into explanations about the Battle of Hastings, and T. Rex. And not the band with that name.
I will never listen to that song quite the same again.
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ReplyDeleteYou can keep the Gorn, I want the flat bed Ford... and the girl of course.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the preceding two lines:
ReplyDeleteWell I'm a shootin' photon mortars on Cestus III,
Such a fine sight to see
Now if I could only find a rhyme for Metron . . .
Just bear well in mind that you're the 21st C. equivalent to the guy making jokes about Custer, Indians, and John Phillip Sousa to kids born in 1900.
ReplyDeleteI stopped talking to people about the Apollo landings when I realized that for most of them, I was telling them about trench warfare at Verdun rolled into explanations about the Battle of Hastings, and T. Rex. And not the band with that name.
-Aesop
Was the Gorn “Running on Empty?”
ReplyDeleteConsidering it's the same songwriter, it has got to be.
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