My former neighbor and fellow Dartmouth alum Alan Eagle is featured in a New York Times article about the Waldorf School in Los Altos and the fact that they recommend children abstain from using high tech devices during formative years. Wah-hoo-wah! (Dartmouth for “hurrah”).

He is by the way a computer science major and employee of the leading search engine (a phrase I often call “search-injun”). I think he got his job through his not my Gunn classmate, who we both used to play mid-twenties hoops with too many years ago, the recently retired multi-vested Jon Rosenberg, a guru and legend, and Lee Major’s league bonus baby.

The kicker to Alan Eagle not letting his kids use even the sleekest of Silicon Valley gadgets is, and you have to have known Eagle since his childhood to even know this — his Alpha Chi Alpha brothers probably don’t know this — and its a true shibboleth, like calling Burlingame Council member Michael Brownrigg “Ferb” — his childhood nickname is…wait for it..one G, two G, three G…Mac! (or Mack, but hey shine on you crazy names his dogs for baseball heroes wrote children’s football early days book and keeps the kids old school Luddite diamond Dad).