Preachers Wife

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Thanks! And I'm still here!

@ thepreacherswife
Nice to see you react. With the age of most people here too many simple went missing.
Hopefully I assume that not the worst happened to them.

For my part I can say that in 2019 I had a stroke and I nearly had a few connection sheared because of lost/forgotten passwords.
A 'long' vacation' or a crashed computer might have similar or worse results. One or two years ago I had to say good bye to my PC with i7-3770K because the SATA ports started to fail, even resulting in a ruined 480GB SSD. I had to switch to my i7-6700K backup. Now I have a i9-9900K as backup and as a benefit the new case has build in USB 3.0 ports. It's nice if you got enough cores and memory to play half a dozen games at the same time.
Makes you feel especially capable.

All those technical terms and references make me feel especially incapable!

Geoffrey Stirling (bring back the quill).

@ Geoffrey

Are you sure that bringing back the quill would solve your problems?

I am sure in the 1970ies I got gifted a fountain pen with a golden pen, that was high tech. The standard cheap fountain pen had ink cartridge to change whenever empty, this you dunked into an ink bottle and filled by hand drawing a lever.

Back to quills, you probably had to take into account which bird race dropped it or which bird race got tortured by plucking it. It probably mattered for ink transport if the bird was still alive.

There are experts who claim that it matters if a parent plant is still alive when it comes to growth of their offspring. Not to mention if females cut flowers they inflict unheard of pain to the plant.

I had a friend who worked for a high street bank and his opinion was that the bank's attitude to systems and technology was that if they could make a computer drive a quill pen they would do so.