{"id":1346,"date":"2012-04-12T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2012-04-13T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:04:40","slug":"npm2012-day12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2012\/04\/12\/npm2012-day12\/","title":{"rendered":"#NPM2012 Day12: Just Add Another App"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Slide<\/a>

"Slide Rule Detail" by Dominic's pics, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

With Sputnik incentive,<\/em>
\n Science education reformed,<\/em>
\n To send Rockets to the Moon.<\/em>
\n The slide ruled.<\/em><\/p>\n

My father’s parting gift,<\/em>
\n Upon retirement from teaching:<\/em>
\n A calculator<\/em>
\n (plugged into the wall)<\/em>
\n Four-functioned,<\/em>
\n With a memory!<\/em><\/p>\n

Near High School grad,<\/em>
\n Our Math Head gave us these,<\/em>
\n Anachronistic slide rules,<\/em>
\n Nostalgic, at the time.<\/em>
\n Tho’ my HP calc<\/em>
\n would programs mine accept.<\/em>
\n I still have both.<\/em><\/p>\n

Me, I missed the punch cards,<\/em>
\n By one year.<\/em>
\n Somewhere at the Uni,<\/em>
\n a hard drive stored our work.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now, though calculators still raise eyebrows<\/em>
\n (number facts, some say)<\/em>
\n An iPod does so much,<\/em>
\n Just add another app.<\/em>
\n —<\/em><\/p>\n

by aforgrave, April 12th, 2012.<\/p>\n

#NPM2012: Prompt 12<\/a><\/p>\n

April is National Poetry Month.<\/strong> Check out budtheteacher<\/a> ‘s NPM2012 Daily Prompts<\/a>, and unleash your inner poet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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