[dlavery]

(in best gravelly, grouchy, grumpy old man voice) "... and back in the day, we didn't have none of those new fangled computers - we did all our calculating by putting rocks in little piles. You whippersnappers have it way too easy! We didn't have none of those "intergrated circuses" for our robots, neither. We had to use tubes and plug them into power supplies the size of the Hoover Dam. And when the tubes burned out, we pulled them out with our teeth! And if we burned our mouth in the process, we just smeared cactus juice on the burns. 'Cause that was all we had, and we liked it! When our robots used laser beams to burn our eyes out we didn't go crying to no doctors - we just put on sunglasses and kept on working. You young kids don't know how good you have it! And we had to walk to school. It was uphill - both ways! And we didn't go all comfortable with those silly "shoe" things - we just wrapped our feet in barbed wire. And we liked it! When we were done, we didn't have none of these here "houses" to go home to, we just crawled into a carboard box and set it down by the side of the road..."