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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> 
> Wow, kinda sad you don't live where you see a lot of folks having fun.
> 

I didn't say that.  There's lots of homespun fun here abouts.  The ones who 
aren't having fun are the techno-wienies who confuse fun with the assuagement 
of their fears of doing without the techno-crap.


> Besides, you wouldn't have to do without List 1, 

No you wouldn't.  You can't do without a computer what you can with one, be 
on this list, for example.  But most technology is misapplied to do things 
done 
just s well without it or else to over do something best left in decent 
modesty.  With an automatic washing machine ('automatic' was specified in the 
original posit) people get in the habit of washing three changes of clothes, 
all 
the bed linen, all the towels, and a lot more .... every day.  Why not, then, 
have too many clothes and wear them for only three hours at a time?  That's 
an 
over-application of technology.

Not only are there fine pedal powered washers, there are also those that use 
a lever to operate the dasher and then a manual wringer.  If your ownership 
and use of clothes is modest, it'd work just fine.

> 
> As to the pizza, one gets out one's Forschner to slice the pepperoni, et. 
> al. *while* the Kitchenaide kneads the pizza dough.  Multi-tasking while 
> sharing a good brew and conversation with a roomful of friends.
> 

To the Forschner, yes of course.  To the Kitchenaide, how techno-sad!   Here 
the roomful of friends participates in the kneading of the pizza dough while 
having said conversation and then share in the tossing of the dough.  All 
pizzas here are hand tossed, and I'm working on making all the brews hand 
malted.  
Not there yet but closing in on it.   </HTML>