None of my four grandparents were around when I was born. So, I cannot directly relate to them.
“Thar ah chit. Myee ah hnit” goes an old saying.
Sayama Toni wrote :
My myees were not around me much, only for visits, but now in their 20s, they care for me in their own way. Myee-ma lay Thitsa got a pay raise recently and ‘ka-dawk-dare’ me with money. She does that now and then. The recent one, I’m saving for grand father’s yearly donation of his death. The myee-yauk-kyar lay, Ye Htut, loves to cook and I used to complain abt my clean kitchen messed up. But, he washes everything and cleans the kitchen. So, I enjoy them in a way. Ye Htut will be here for a couple of months before he returns to college, so I let him do as he pleases.
Telegraph messages (and subsequently SMS messages) have limits on the number of words (or characters). So, it makes sense to compress a message by
For example, the following were first used by the military to report situations:
SNAFU (Situation Normal. All Fouled Up.)
FUBAR (Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition)
U Khin Maung Zaw (KMZ) wrote:
Our good friend Htay Lwin Nyo (EP74, UCC – GBNF), told me when I met him after he moved to SJSU, San Jose State University, that he made some killings either selling or licensing the data compression algorithm. Neither did he elaborate nor did I ask him more details at the time.
There are several ways to classify data.
U Khin Maung Zaw (EC76) wrote :
Couple of most sensitive data categorization are ‘Top Secret Ultra’ and SCI, ‘Sensitive Compartmented Information’ as defined in government/intelligent services.
In the business world, one of the most critical category is PII, Personally Identifiable Information. According to the NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, listed quite a few data as PII and possible PII, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information.
People should be careful not to expose his/her as well as anyone’s PII data on Social Media.
In our younger days, Opal was a decent car. But, when one jokingly calls someone “Opal” (or “O Pei“), then one is obsolete (good to be ignored for getting old).
There is T.O. (Technical Obsolescence).
Some artifacts can be found only in museums, antique fairs (by die-hard collectors).
Some technologies are disruptive.
Many automobile workers lost their jobs when robotics gradually displaced them. Those, who did not have alternate skills, were hit hard.
Secretaries (experts in shorthand and typing) found that their skills have been marginalized by the word processors, voice-activated systems and similar advanced tools.
On the flip side, I would not have a reasonably good memory and a hobby of “connecting the dots” of seemingly diverse topics if I had early access to the wonderful world of Internet, AI, and Gaming.
Slates, Chalk & Talk, Logarithm tables, Slide rules, Multiplication tables (up to 16), Grammar books, Pronouncing Dictionaries, and most now hard-to-find artifacts trained us to remember (not rote learning per se, but using visualization and tricks).
Many people thought that I am either “brain damaged” or have an “unusual brain”.
One said, “You can write backwards faster than most of us can write forward”.
A few were not impressed.
A professor said, “You cannot earn money by being an expert in History in general, and History of Computing in particular.”
A manager said, “What is the use of knowing the Trivia (e.g. hobbies, awards) of your fellow workers?”
T.O. required me to unlearn some old skills, and to learn new “latest and the greatest” skills.
For me, it’s easy to remember and too hard to forget. I know thousands of names.
After procrastinating for several decades, I had a wake up call to dump my Trivia.
I have posted 3000+ articles and 220+ videos in the past few years.
There will be few Oldies who remember and appreciate the good old days before the T.O.
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