The Big List of Obsolete Skills


	The Big List of Obsolete Skills
skwirlinator
2-23-2008 8:49 AM
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2-23-2008 9:03 AM
thisnamecantbetaken
Wow, it's true. I can't remember the last time I licked an envelope.
2-23-2008 9:10 AM
enbar
Focusing a camera?! This may come as a surprise to some of you, but photographers actually focus by hand all the time...
2-24-2008 5:39 AM
vk2yoc
I spent a lot of time today focusing a camera, I still on occasions change vacuum tubes in my transmitters, use morse code, and adjust the dwell angle on a cars distributor.

But then, I am a hundred and eleventy years old.
2-24-2008 8:28 AM
Deepti
I am a hundred and eleventy years old
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