Michael Press wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (Tom Keats) wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> At least it doesn't have slidy-outy coffee cup holders.
>>> You can make fun of cup holders all you want,
>> Thank you, I will. At least, the mechanised/motorized ones
>> that slide out like a CD player tray. I also like to make
>> fun of electric toothbrushes, electric backscratchers,
>> electric card shufflers, etc. But Western Civilization
>> really hit the skids with the advent of cable TV and handheld
>> remote controls, so people could watch such pap as infomercials
>> about auto-shifting bicycles.
>
> The right electric toothbrush is a boon. I can get
> better results with less effort, the results measured
> by my dentists reports. The electric toothbrush gives
> me much better results, and I was doing good with the
> (properly chosen) manual toothbrush.
>
> I had always wanted an electric pencil sharpener, and
> the day I got it made me very happy. To this day using
> it makes me happy. Well worth it for me.
>
If an electric pencil sharpener makes you happy then an electric pencil
eraser will bring you to a state of ecstasy.
Back in the days when young dinosaurs (like myself) roamed the earth, I
had a job working as a mechanical technician and a machinist. I often
worked closely with the designer/draftsmen and I always found it amusing
that the people on the drawings boards used motorized pencil erasers. I
mean, how lazy do you have to be to need a electric eraser?
Later, I moved inside and became a designer/draftsman my self. I quickly
found out that a draftsman (especially one who is low on the totem pole)
spends more time changing and revising existing drawings than working on
new drawings. That is when I learned the real value of having a good
electric eraser (and an eraser shield and a rosin bag).
I miss my trusty old Staedtler-Mars electric eraser. I wonder where it
is now?
--
Paul D Oosterhout
I work for SAIC (but I don't speak for SAIC)