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Slim Randles' Home Country
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[August 25, 2007]
When old Jasper Blankenship came to town from the
diggings recently, we asked him over for a few days. He saw us
working the home computer and asked about it, but he really seemed
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 But then my wife showed him how he could call up a certain program,
tell it where he wanted to go and have it zoom in from outer space
to some tiny corner of the world.Well, look out now, boys and
girls; we have created a monster!
Ol' Jasper went from being shocked to being a
semi-almost-darn-near technogeezer in about half an hour.
For the next three days, we had to wait until the old boy went to
sleep before we could check our e-mail. He was on that machine
constantly.
But his new ability to eavesdrop on any place on earth at least
led to some wonderful stories.
"Come here and look at this," he'd say. We did.
"You see that tree right there? I killed a huge buck under that
tree."
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"See this? No... this little cabin over here on the left. That's
where old Leroy What's-his-name lived back when I was a kid. He's
the one showed me how to pan for gold. Right there in the creek.
No... down a little ways farther, not that close to the cabin. Let
me move it a bit... yeah, right there. See that big hole in the
creek? Right there. Got a little bit of color, too. Not much, but if
you're a kid and find any gold at all, it's a wonderful thing, you
know?"
So for three days we took a tour of Jasper's past. Canyons and
creeks and small towns and even the homes where certain special
young ladies had lived more than half a century earlier.
It was a fascinating blend of history and technology.
[Text from file received from Slim Randles]
Brought to you by "Ol' Slim's Views from the Porch," available
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