POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : One Word : Re: One Word Server Time
1 Aug 2024 12:21:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: One Word  
From: nemesis
Date: 31 Dec 2008 00:05:00
Message: <web.495afd00877dfbf3180057960@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> Larry Hudson wrote:
> >
> > I was born in '37 so I'm also a grumbling old man (more of a curmudgeon
> > actually).   ;-)   So my childhood was also pre-plastics.  My equivalent
> > nostalgia is for (all metal) Erector Sets.
>
> I have a strange feeling that that name would be considered somewhat
> weird and/or unsuitable for children's set.

Cartoons from that era too were very politically incorrect and violent to
today's high standards of weenieness.

But I'm really surprised any time I see povray newsgroups lurkers, specially
this age.  I thought povray was just a geek's hobby.  Well, not like as you age
your geekiness will abandon you... :P


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