15 Dec
2000
15 Dec
'00
4 p.m.
Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad, we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you.
At least *you* had *donkeys*. We carried *our* cuneiform tablets in baskets on our *backs*, through the snow, uphill both ways. Stephen