Rites of passage
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 6:33PM If you are from Vanatu and you go through a rite of passage odds are there is a vine tied to your feet and you are going to take a 80 foot fall..
However, if you are born to a geek the rite of passage might simply be the handing of a Scientific Calculator from your dad..
Yes! My daughter is now a fifth grader and today was her first day of school. The back to school list said "Scientific Calculator" and she insisted on buying one at target as part of the "back to school" shopping ritual last week.
"Naansense!" said daddy in his typical Tamil accent. We shall have a small ritual at home where Jr. will get the keys to geekdom!
Problem was the calculator which was dad's first (the family's first for that matter) was a 1989 vintage Casio and it has been sleeping in dad's collection of memorabilia in a shoebox for the last 12 or so years.
Today the old "Novino" batteries purchased someplace in Varanasi in early nineties was replaced with some Kirkland batteries from Costco and the thing powered up!
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Hat's off to Casio for making something this good. There was no battery leak in the battery compartment either! So a big thanks to Novino also for making some amazing batteries!
Jr. was happy that she gets to use the same calculator as daddy! Daddy is so proud that Jr. is using a Scientific calculator in fifth grade when he used it for his freshman year in college!
It is a win-win!
Jr., things dads do, things kids do in all part of life, jr.
Reader Comments (1)
Wow...(for so many reasons:the calculator lasting this long, you keeping it in usable condition for so long, your kid going along with using an old calculator instead of buying a new one, manufacturers who made things to last long versus manufacturers who put out inferior products for quick money...)
Get bored of a cell phone after 3 months. Nice to see a calculator last 23 years.