| As you get older your bodily functions
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| | lot more than they used to. However, am I
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| and your brain start to slow down. I
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| | being completely unreasonable? I still do
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| guess it's a way of preparing for
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| | the same things with my work PC as I did
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| retirement! Just as Einstein might have
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| | 30 years ago. I use the same basic
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| confirmed, this drop off in pace is
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| | functions: word processor, spreadsheet
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| relative. As the body slows, so all
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| | and database. I know it's boring, but
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| around it seems faster. Children run
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| | that's all I want and all I have ever
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| around like sparrows flitting from bough
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| | wanted, so the extra overhead today's PCs
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| to bough. Cars, hours, trains and days
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| | carry is largely wasted on me, I'm
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| move along ever faster.Now, although I'm
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| | afraid. Admittedly I have a PC for home
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| only in my middle age, a curious things
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| | use on which I play music or watch DVDs,
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| has started to happen. Perhaps I'm going
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| | but I was perfectly able to listen to
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| completely ga-ga, but as the years have
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| | music on CDs before my all-singing and
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| passed, there are certain things that
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| | dancing PC came alone (or cassettes and
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| have not speeded up at all - in fact they
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| | vinyl if we go back far enough). I could
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| have slowed down. I am referring to
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| | also watch films on video.OK, so I've
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| anything electronic.Back in the last
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| | probably gone too far and left my
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| millennium, I used to have a Dos-based
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| | argument a little unbalanced. I'll draw
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| personal computer. When you switched it
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| | back a little. I'll accept PCs with all
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| on, it just came on. OK the only software
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| | the graphics, security checks and other
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| that loaded was the on-board dos (disc
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| | gizmos. I'll also accept cars, radios,
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| operating system) program, but loading a
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| | cameras and TVs with on-board micro-chips
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| spreadsheet from a floppy disc would only
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| | that are designed to add to my experience
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| take a few seconds - and I was up and
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| | of these devices. But please please, can
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| running. Nowadays my PC needs plenty of
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| | someone work on the problem of making
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| notice. I press the button and then go
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| | them work as soon as you turn them on -
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| and make a coffee. I think this should be
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| | just like in the old days before progress
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| mandatory. The PCs should be programmed
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| | came and slowed everything down.There are
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| so that, as soon as you press the "on"
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| | some electrical things that still work
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| button, it emits the message: "now go and
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| | right away - as soon as they are plugged
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| make yourself some sweet coffee" (on 2nd
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| | in. For example, electric
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| thoughts, that could add another 2
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| | lights...unless, of course, you use the
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| minutes to its start-up time, so forget
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| | long-life bulbs. Ah, I've just thought of
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| it). Oh, and what about my printer? What
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| | one: the kettle. That surely comes on as
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| happened there? That's even worse.
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| | soon as you plug it in, doesn't it? And
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| Printing the first document of the day is
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| | there is something else: one product that
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| a major event. I am inclined to invite
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| | performs better than ever and still comes
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| the neighbours round for tea and cakes
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| | on as soon as it's plugged in - and that
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| and have a little printer-starting party
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| | is our very own Insectocutor Fly Killer
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| while we wait.This problem is not just
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| | Unit. Insectocutor have been
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| confined to my computer. My TV seems to
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| | manufacturing fly killer machines since
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| take forever to get started. Even my
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| | the 1960's. They are robust and built to
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| radio takes longer to turn on than it
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| | last. They work by attracting flies using
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| used to. Down at my local grocery store,
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| | a uv bulb. The flies are then killed by
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| passing products through the checkout
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| | coming into contact with an electrified
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| seems to take longer as well. When I pay
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| | grid or a very strong glue board. For
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| by credit card, sometimes a whole queue
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| | example, the IND41 is an industrial fly
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| of shoppers is held up while the system
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| | killer that can cover a range of 350
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| calls up the bank for authorisation
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| | square metres. The good news is that
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| (perhaps it's just me - perhaps I have a
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| | Insectocutor make them and the television
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| guilty face).Have I mentioned the car
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| | and PC manufacturers do not. You can just
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| yet? No? Well this is another victim of
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| | imagine the flies queuing up to get
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| progress. I used to turn a key and it
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| | killed, kind of circling around the room
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| would simply start. Nowadays a multitude
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| | in airport stack style, while the machine
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| of on-board systems are activated and I
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| | takes its time to warm up, saying "go and
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| am asked to "wait please" by a friendly
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| | help yourself to some sweet coffee".Fly
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| voice.Yes I am being simplistic - yes I
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| | killers from Insectocutor are
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| know that some of these gadgets can do a
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| | manufactured to the highest standard.
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