Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Curmudgeon alert
75% of the LLatPoN gang turns 35 this week (all the twice-yearly posters, Otto Man is able to post so much because of his youth -- and the fact his stamina hasn't been dulled by needy children). I just finished Douglas Adams' Salmon of Doubt and found this quote to be timely and apt.
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Yeah, happy birthday, old guys.
That Douglas Adams quote is perfect. I may have to frame it.
Happy birthday, geezers. Being six months younger than all of you, I just can't understand your generation.
This town smells like mustard.
That quote IS great.
Reminds me I still need to compose the "Greatest Inventions of My Lifetime" post I've been meaning to get to.
Oh, and I still feel thirty five...
Dunno. I embraced personal computing when I was three years beyond the alleged dropoff age. And that was when embracing personal computing typically meant messing with a Commodore Vic 20 unless you were wealthy, had access to a college computer or were in the computing industry.
In any case, happy birthday and many happy returns.
BTW, do you suppose they would put birthday candles on a plate of nachos if asked?
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