Film projection for me: the last time I threaded a projector was 2013, sadly.
I got out of high school knowing how to run a one color offset press....
Unfortunately, I was such a lousy janitor, they wouldn't let me get a job doing it....
A lot of facets of lithography were already changing at the time....
How to find obscure records and movies in second-hand shops. Now Kristi just orders them on Amazon. :bluesad:
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 29, 2021, 06:52:30 AM
I got out of high school knowing how to run a one color offset press....
Unfortunately, I was such a lousy janitor, they wouldn't let me get a job doing it....
A lot of facets of lithography were already changing at the time....
I know how to operate one too! :thumbup:
I took a year of commercial art and printing in Vocational school!
I can send and receive in Morse Code, using a telegraph key.
At least, I could at one time.
Quote from: Alex on July 29, 2021, 07:59:18 AM
How to find obscure records and movies in second-hand shops. Now Kristi just orders them on Amazon. :bluesad:
There's a store like that in Cape Town called Mabu Vinyl and Digital which does that locally.
Tariff publishing.
Quote from: Trevor on July 29, 2021, 08:47:15 AM
Quote from: Alex on July 29, 2021, 07:59:18 AM
How to find obscure records and movies in second-hand shops. Now Kristi just orders them on Amazon. :bluesad:
There's a store like that in Cape Town called Mabu Vinyl and Digital which does that locally.
There's one or two shops in downtown Richmond trying to keep to art alive....
I am an excellent typist. I'm not talking about just typing words per minute, I mean working an electric typewriter. I can change and fix an ink ribbon like I invented the damned things. Try putting that on a resume nowadays though...
Quote from: zelmo73 on July 30, 2021, 02:37:38 AM
I am an excellent typist. I'm not talking about just typing words per minute, I mean working an electric typewriter. I can change and fix an ink ribbon like I invented the damned things. Try putting that on a resume nowadays though...
I still have an electric IBM typewriter in my office: wrote the first draft of my film research on that.
I learned how to develop my own film in a dark room.
Quote from: WingedSerpent on August 05, 2021, 08:49:09 PM
I learned how to develop my own film in a dark room.
That's another skill I have which isn't needed in my job anymore: everything is digital.
When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 06, 2021, 10:10:48 AM
When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?
I don't know who plays them but they have tons on sale on places like amazon. Usually listed under Games: Dice & Marbles. My guess it has become more of an indoor game over the years. That said, my niece collects marbles in glass jars for decoration.
I had mad skills dialing with my thumb on rotary phones :teddyr:
Quote from: claws on August 06, 2021, 11:15:44 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 06, 2021, 10:10:48 AM
When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?
I don't know who plays them but they have tons on sale on places like amazon. Usually listed under Games: Dice & Marbles. My guess it has become more of an indoor game over the years. That said, my niece collects marbles in glass jars for decoration.
I had mad skills dialing with my thumb on rotary phones :teddyr:
Marbles are also good for marble runs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_sculpture
On the topic of the thread, I used to know a fair number of MS-DOS commands.
Quote from: pacman000 on August 06, 2021, 01:53:37 PM
Quote from: claws on August 06, 2021, 11:15:44 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 06, 2021, 10:10:48 AM
When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?
I don't know who plays them but they have tons on sale on places like amazon. Usually listed under Games: Dice & Marbles. My guess it has become more of an indoor game over the years. That said, my niece collects marbles in glass jars for decoration.
I had mad skills dialing with my thumb on rotary phones :teddyr:
Marbles are also good for marble runs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_sculpture
On the topic of the thread, I used to know a fair number of MS-DOS commands.
I know some too. Probably not a whole lot taken on the whole of all the commands that were available, but enough to get around and do some simple batch file scripting.
I'm one of those who has the terminal shortcut on my command bar on my Mac. Done a bit of work with various Unix/Linux/etc systems over the years so I know some of those commands as well and have done some shell scripting with those.