Jlall Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 loled at the floppy disk and kimi gibler... good times. In other news Stephanie Tanner ended up being a raging cokehead or something...go figure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 tja, nowadays kids are not able to imagine that 10MB hard discs were standard at some point... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Don't forget the 10 inch floppies and guys huddled around a "green" monitor, late at night, playing "Life". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 I recommend not Google Image searching 10 inch floppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 OK, here is a real answer. Yesterday I got an invitation to join Facebook. I have received these before but ignored them. This was from someone who is also involved in a literacy project I participate in so I screwed up my courage and signed on. Now I have to manage my links. My younger daughter is in touch with my ex-wife's husband's daughter. Somehow, unintentionally, this young lady (in her forties, young by the standards of this thread) is now on my friends list. I assume I somehow caused this to happen. In fact I like her but this is not a relationship I had planned on maintaining, it's structurally a little weird to my 1950s brain. Yes I get a kick out of "Modern Family" on the tv. I am thinking of deleting her as a friend but it's not that I want to insult her. These new social norms are beyond my capacity. I feel old. I got a friend request sometime last year from someone who remembered me from high school. We obviously did know each other, because she'd signed my yearbook. But I don't think she was part of my regular clique, which kept in touch for a few years after we graduated, and even after seeing her picture in the book I couldn't for the life of me remember her. I responded that I didn't remember her, but she kept trying to give hints so that I would friend her. Even if it did come back to me, why would I want to friend her after all these years? I don't know her, we have nothing in common except that 30 years ago we were in the high school band together. And Facebook in general seems like an incredible waste of web space, I couldn't care less what all these people I've known over the years are doing every minute of the day. I was there at the birth of the Internet, and now I work for the company that makes Facebook work. But I still think it's a silly system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 I like facebook, it's nice to reconnect with old friends and see where they are, what they are doing, how to contact them, etc. It's also a convenient place to see peoples' recent pictures. In a case like yours where I barely remember them or we weren't much friends to begin with I just reject the friend request, no big deal. They don't get a rejection notice anyway, they simply never see an acceptance and probably will never even notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Actually, in this case it wasn't a plain friend request, she sent me an email through facebook. I thought it would be rude to just delete it, so I replied saying I didn't remember her, and the rest was as I described. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 You made a big mistake, you responded :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Facebook has possibilities. I mentioned that I had inadvertently added the daughter of my ex-wife's husband. Now that I am learinng how this works, I see what happened. It was not I but she who in fact initiated the request. I hadn't read the blurb from facebook, I just saw her name, and thought god, I screwed this up. So I accepted. I thought I was inadvertently being an old geezer prowling about and asking about her but that wasn't the case. If she initiated the link, I am interested in how she is doing. It's been a while and, as I said, I like her. My older daughter was stunned to find that I am now on facebook. For some reason she wasn't stunned when my wife joined it earlier. I need to think about that. Anyway, she tells me that she gets messages from people in high school that she cannot place at all. She ignores them. On the other hand she got re-connected with a very close friend of her childhood and they are now corresponding. I am sure some judgment is needed, but what else is new? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 kenberg, please promise all of us you won't ever sign up for any applications with "mafia" or "farm" in the title. you can thank me later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdanno Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 You can always remove people from your friend list - they don't get a notification, so most likely they won't ever notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 When I fill in online "year" of birth stuff, and need to scroll down on the dropdown menu! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 The first time a person younger than myself referred to me as "Sir"..... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 The first time a person younger than myself referred to me as "Sir"..... :( at least you can remember the first time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Knowing that, in time, even this will pass.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanM Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 I never feel old :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Yesterday the news was reporting the results of Obama's physical, and they mentioned that he's 48 years old. I'm going to be older than the President at the end of this month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Yesterday the news was reporting the results of Obama's physical, and they mentioned that he's 48 years old. I'm going to be older than the President at the end of this month. But not before then? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonottawa Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 kenberg, please promise all of us you won't ever sign up for any applications with "mafia" or "farm" in the title. you can thank me later. NOW you tell me. Who knew that the lamest gameplay imaginable could be so compelling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbradley62 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Two years ago I played in a tennis league where I was placed in Flight A. (This was right five years ago; now, it's not so clear.) Since setting a goal of making the playoffs wasn't at all realistic, I decided my goal should be to not finish below anyone older than me. Then I looked more closely at the 20 names and figured out that I was the oldest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomSac Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Yesterday the news was reporting the results of Obama's physical, and they mentioned that he's 48 years old. I'm going to be older than the President at the end of this month. But not before then? ;) lol thats what i was thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Two years ago I played in a tennis league where I was placed in Flight A. (This was right five years ago; now, it's not so clear.) Since setting a goal of making the playoffs wasn't at all realistic, I decided my goal should be to not finish below anyone older than me. Then I looked more closely at the 20 names and figured out that I was the oldest. So you reached your goal. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Makes me feel old to see how new generations play videogames. I always though I would be able to play shoot'em games with my children and maybe even grandchildren, what I didn't thought of was that keyboard+mouse would be so obsolete by the time I had one. A quick example, I suck at wii games, and here you see a teenager speed-making trauma_center. I cannot pass the third stage and he... http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?Traum...SS_normal_12418 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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