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[REGGAB]

I understand I'm not the oldest rat in the barn, but I'm by no means the youngest buck in the woods either.
Just got out of a rather interesting meeting with my young engineers.  Details don't really matter, but we have some detailed reviewing to accomplish.  I'm not one to tell people how to do things.....unless they simply have no clue, since doing so detracts from the learning process.  Today's tasking was met with blank stares.  It's really quite simple.  Tedious, cumbersome, and involved, but simple.........to the point of being "rote,"  almost.

Do a "line-by-line" document comparison from an earlier version to the latest version.

Blank stares!

I commented that Microsoft Excel would be the most appropriate tool to accomplish the task, but it didn't matter to me if "you use a Big Chief Tablet and a big fat #2 pencil, to do the comparison............just compare and tell me what is missing from the old stuff to the new stuff."

One person was old enough to remember The Big Chief!

Do you remember Big Chief Tablets?

Somewhere in and amongst my junk, I still have a few of these.  Like most things of our youth, The Big Chief Tablet has fallen by the wayside............last produced in 2001.  I used to use them back in my Noncommissioned Officer and early Warrant Officer days in the Army as I struggled with the advent of this amazing device on which I'm writing to you fine people now.  Evidently, like most things, the parent manufacturer was bought by a bigger company (Mead)...........and so the story goes..........until they just stopped making them.

I'm a terminal forward thinker, but I LOVE looking back on the past............if for no other reason.......than to continue learning.

Happy Tuesday!

[Keats]

Anytime I am faced with the above, my gut wants to make it harder just to illustrate my resolve.

(and to punish unnecessary delay)

Whining or lack of enthusiasm seldom changes the mission (or at least it should not)

This usually sends a msg not to question or delay an appropriate response.

It is like Pavlov's dogs, I want an instinctual response to get it done.

There used to be a time that you would never showed that you had no idea, you would pretend that you understood

and figured it out later.

[MIKEYTEE]

I would rather know by the blank stares that they didn't have a clue, than have them all nodding there heads like they knew what is going on. At least I could explain what I wanted and how to achieve the results, and not have everything screwed up.
Mike
 

And yes I remember the Big Chief Tablets!

[Gettinold]

        

[Fired00d]

       

Get yourself one here...........

Big Chief Tablet with Pencil $0.80

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[Gettinold]

Ahh thank you Gary.    Do they come in orange.   

[Fired00d]

Ahh thank you Gary.    Do they come in orange.   

That I can't answer.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[Gettinold]

Hows this ole pumpkin brother.     

[REGGAB]

Hows this ole pumpkin brother.     

Like most pumpkins, no historical significance.   

[REGGAB]

I would rather know by the blank stares that they didn't have a clue, than have them all nodding there heads like they knew what is going on. At least I could explain what I wanted and how to achieve the results, and not have everything screwed up.
Mike
 

And yes I remember the Big Chief Tablets!

Yessir.  Can't question their integrity.  They'll get in a groove, like they always do, and accomplish the mission.

[REGGAB]

Get yourself one here...........

Big Chief Tablet with Pencil $0.80

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

hehehehehe.  NOT!  Confirmation has been achieved.   

[iski]

I remember Big Chief tablets.  Odds are pretty good my Mom has a box somewhere with some of my earlier works of pencilmanship preserved for posterity on Big Chief tablets with a #2 pencil.

Doubt that many of the folks I work with would have a clue about Big Chief, Henry.  Of course they probably never experienced the thrill of getting the box of Crayolas with 64 colors, either. 

[REGGAB]

I remember Big Chief tablets.  Odds are pretty good my Mom has a box somewhere with some of my earlier works of pencilmanship preserved for posterity on Big Chief tablets with a #2 pencil.

Doubt that many of the folks I work with would have a clue about Big Chief, Henry.  Of course they probably never experienced the thrill of getting the box of Crayolas with 64 colors, either. 

Now THAT is the Big Chief tablet I'm talkin' 'bout.   

It gotta find mine.  They're around here somewhere.

[Wildrat]

Man,
Y'all are really old! I don't remember any of that stuff. All I remember is computers.

[REGGAB]

Man,
Y'all are really old! I don't remember any of that stuff. All I remember is computers.

Yessir.....and I bet you don't remember chalkboards, wooden floors maintained with banana oil, and corporal punishment that REALLY got your attention either.