Give him something with 'computer' in the title, that doesn't make any sense to him!
Bought a mechanical flight computer from my flight school a couple of days ago. All those lines sure are pretty! So I am going through the little booklet with the instructions and have started to get my head around using it for simple multiplication and division and unit conversion calculations. Now I have moved on to wind drift calculations and I am totally confused again.... "set the what arc to what now?"
For the record, I prefer the types of computers that have buttons and work in 0's and 1's.
The thing that has me tickled about all of this is that, while I was pretty good at maths at school, I remember once (during a short rebelious phase) being 'removed' from my mathematics class for loudly protesting during my geometry class. I think the phrase I used at the time was something like, "I am *never* gonna use this crap for anything!". Now I am reading my nav book, starting at this mysterious 'slidey' device and analysing triangular vectors.
I am sorry Mr Smith.... truely I am!