Dave Thacker wrote:

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very well put john.

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THANKS
Its all true though-my teens summed up in one paragraph

very well put john.

I too used to live a shoebox int middle o' road .... and when you try telling kids that today they won't believe you, nope - they won't.

With thanks to the 'Four Yorkshire Men' sketch from Monty Python.

JOHN TYMON wrote:

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oh to get back to the days of nowt but a pair of £5 bins,no phone in ya pocket at all,no bleeps,no tweetsno messages,no care or worries about what other people were seeing,notebook int pocket,didn't have a clue what others were seeing till the once a month LOS newsletter arrived,patch birding,real mates not cyber matesno camerasno scopes,no tripods,no car,just bus rides or push bikes,only going up toot horwich at good friday,southport ont coach once a year.no hidesno treesat penny that is,no money not a care in the world,real records,real music,live bands,real sportmen who would play for a fiver and an orange at half time.those were the good times
it was almost a poem that

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Steve Suttill wrote:

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After spending my day off work sitting at my laptop entering up BTO survey data onto spreadsheets and databases while the rain and hail battered against the windows I'm right with you there, John

Steve

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me too 8 hours a day in a office with no windowsno idea if its sunny or raining,8 hours on the computer,and when i get home,no pleasure using the computer for fun,has my eyes are knackered through being on it all day.its a mad world we now live in.

After spending my day off work sitting at my laptop entering up BTO survey data onto spreadsheets and databases while the rain and hail battered against the windows I'm right with you there, John

Steve

oh to get back to the days of nowt but a pair of £5 bins,no phone in ya pocket at all,no bleeps,no tweetsno messages,no care or worries about what other people were seeing,notebook int pocket,didn't have a clue what others were seeing till the once a month LOS newsletter arrived,patch birding,real mates not cyber matesno camerasno scopes,no tripods,no car,just bus rides or push bikes,only going up toot horwich at good friday,southport ont coach once a year.no hidesno treesat penny that is,no money not a care in the world,real records,real music,live bands,real sportmen who would play for a fiver and an orange at half time.those were the good times
it was almost a poem that

All very nice this technology and stuff,soon you won,t need to go outside but build a GM list as seen from the google car camera,nothing brings you back down to terra ferma(spell ceck) like a nice walk around Audenshaw on a very wet sunday morning looking for the bar tailed godwit,which must have been hiding in the anglers tents,take your i phone out in that downpour if you dare

Happy days geoff

Paul Cliff wrote:

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nothing wrong with clicking links - if you know about them.

my point with the potential of having qrs for threads is for people who might visit a real life birding site and not know there is a web page dedicated to that site.

a tiny qr symbol on the visitors board at say pennington linking people directly to the sightings thread here.

i just thought it was interesting. shall i get my coat?



-- Edited by Paul Cliff on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 04:12:57 PM

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Not for me Paul, its just I'm a bit thick with stuff like that.

Next there will be new binoculars with a form of face recognition software on them they actually ID the birds for you, tell you what you are looking at, do your bird count for the day, site count and county birds count all automatically, the new Binocular technology is almost perfected, apparantly there is just one small annoying bug in the almost perfect software, something to do with false ID problems occuring between meadow and tree pipits

Dont bother with the coat Paul. I'll send it on

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 05:00:33 PM

nothing wrong with clicking links - if you know about them.

my point with the potential of having qrs for threads is for people who might visit a real life birding site and not know there is a web page dedicated to that site.

a tiny qr symbol on the visitors board at say pennington linking people directly to the sightings thread here.

i just thought it was interesting. shall i get my coat?



-- Edited by Paul Cliff on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 04:12:57 PM

Forgive my ignorance Paul, but what's up with just clicking on the links?

for those of you who don't know, it is a qr code... if you have a qr app on your smart phone (free to download) it reads it and takes you to web address within the code. the one pictured here (free to generate) is for the audenshaw sightings thread. if the code was placed on the entrance to the relevant site visitors could scan on the way in be taken to the thread to either read or post. the possibilities are endless...