I was reading the Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind article today, and this quote about DOS hit me:

DOS was dealt a death blow when Windows 95 came out in 1995, but many of us old keyboard jockeys still drop out to the command line from Windows to flex our old DOS muscles occasionally. It just feels more efficient to type a quick command than to monkey around with the mouse and menus. We may be fooling ourselves -- like the people who wait in line for self-checkout at the supermarket when the Express checkout clerk is twiddling her thumbs -- but it's all about perception, right?

Crap, so, I love the CLI (not nessarily a DOS CLI) and almost exclusively use self-checkout at the grocery when it's available.  Is the GUI actually faster?  Should I stop using self-checkout?  Am I stuck in the stone age?

Well, I do drive an automatic.  Somebody once told me that didn't jive with the rest of my habits and preferences.

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