Yup, my hovercraft is full of eels.
Alex
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> A quote from Obama advisor David Axelrod:
>
> "One of the things that I'm sure that we had no idea we were going to hear
> when we came to the White House is, 'Sir, the robots bumped into the riser
> and knocked the top hat off the well.' These are things you don't
> anticipate. And every day has something like that. 'The pirate has the
> captain. What do we do, sir?'"
>
> Yup. That's high technology for you. Everyone ends up knowing -- and
> worrying -- about stuff we had never heard of a few years ago. Life did used
> to be simpler. Actually, though mastering early 20th century technology took
> a lot more smarts and practice than dealing with today's stuff. There were
> fewer machines and they were simpler, but a lot harder to use.
>
> - Jed
>
>
