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I mean seriously. Who is vetting the list of "obsolete" skills at Obsolete Skills? First, any time you're taking ideas from Scoble, you need a better checking process. But every letter has stuff that's just wrong...
AS/400 (Written wrong, and although renamed, is still very much in use and active production)
AT commands for modems (Again, no.)
Balancing the tonearm on a turntable (Vinyl, and turntables still aren't dead.)
Biasing Vacuum Tubes (Guitar techs and players everywhere are giggling at this)
Building a log cabin (I imagine the Amish would have something to say about this)
Calligraphy (huh? It's not even close to dead)
Changing Vacuum Tubes (obviously, the Music industry doesn't count)
COBOL (Um...clueless much?)
Cufflinks (Geeks don't go to many formal events, but that doesn't mean they don't exist)
Dewey Decimal System (?)
Driving a stick shift (again I say: ?)
EBCDIC (Again, just because the technodweebs don't like big IBM iron does mean it's gone)
So on and so forth.
It is apparent that both Le Scoble and the people running this site need to make use of another "obsolete" skill, namely using the correct word. "Uncommon" and "Obsolete" are in fact, quite different in spelling and meaning. True, they both have 8 letters, but that does not make them the same thing. Really. I know Scoble is astoundingly clueless about anything happening outside of his little dorkosphere circle jerk, (Seeing modern pictures of the universe made him cry. What did he think NASA and the ESA, and their Russian/Japanese/Chinese counterparts were doing all this time? Oh wait, it wasn't blogging or social networking, so it didn't count. Sigh), but this is just a tad ridiculous.
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You can have my stick shift when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.
--chuck
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chuckgoolsbee 
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February 28, 2008 3:04 PM
The Dewey Decimal System obsolete? So what do they use in libraries these days? Sort by ISBN? By book title? By blog author thickness?
Conan the Librarian will be visiting Scoble soon, and the hills will ring with his terrifying war-cry - "Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?"
Thanks for reading and commenting on these blogs, John. I can't do it myself, due to fits of rage caused by rampant stupidity.
Posted by:
GaryPatterson |
February 28, 2008 4:32 PM
OK, just going through it very quickly, I do 92 of them all the time, but that's without checking back to see how many that start with "Using" are dupes. There are 50 more I would do if I could, and certainly aren't obsolete in any meaningful sense. Somebody has too much time on their hands. (Including me, obviously!)
Seriously: cursive handwriting, spelling? Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange? Common sense apparently DOES belong on the list!
Posted by:
Gatesbasher |
February 28, 2008 4:33 PM
Does "Scoble Quality Control" count as an obsolete skill?
Posted by:
cthellis |
February 29, 2008 2:15 AM
Sadly, their inclusion of "speaking Latin" is about one millimeter away from "speaking any language other than English" to most Americans.
Posted by:
ricket |
February 29, 2008 3:23 AM
@GaryPatterson:
"The Dewey Decimal System obsolete? So what do they use in libraries these days? Sort by ISBN? By book title? By blog author thickness?"
Most academic libraries use the Library of Congress system, which is in order of the typesetter's mother's dog's veterinarian's hat size.
Posted by:
Gatesbasher |
February 29, 2008 3:37 AM
cthellis: BAAAHAHAAHAHAHAAH
Posted by:
John C. Welch 
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February 29, 2008 2:56 PM
