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ER — 9/9/2011 1:34:15 AM (archived)

I suppose you're right. I'm just an old fart bitchin' about my days of black hair and flat belly, when I was on the cutting edge of all things techno myself.

I worked as an image processing and computer graphics applications programmer for 13 years, eight of them in Silicon Valley, and today I have to get my wife to re-program the TV every time we get a nearby lightning strike.

I used to really get into the latest new thing, and then gradually I just came to see it as just a chore. Learning new stuff was fun, but learning stuff that would be obsolete in a year, every year, soon got old.

I guess that's what's being an old fart is all about. I'm a lot smarter than I was back then, I've developed a really good bullshit filter, for one thing. But I also don't look forward to novelty or change like I used to. And when you start catching yourself complaining that the radio on your car has too many buttons and features, you realize the world is either starting to leave you behind, or you just feel like getting off.

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The end of Pax Americana? - TB - 9/7/2011 3:08:33 PM
- Re: The end of Pax Americana? - BuckGalaxy - 9/8/2011 1:42:43 AM
  - Re: The end of Pax Americana? - ER - 9/8/2011 2:31:17 AM
- Re: The end of Pax Americana? - ER - 9/7/2011 3:34:15 PM
  - It's all very 19th century - Robert - 9/7/2011 9:24:47 PM
    - Re: It's all very 19th century - Eri - 9/8/2011 1:26:52 AM
      - For some of us, though, the leaps are a little too mind-boggling. - Robert - 9/8/2011 7:20:40 PM
        
        Re: For some of us, though, the leaps are a little too mind-boggling. - TB - 9/8/2011 7:26:13 PM
        
        Well, yeah, but young people are by definition immune to future shock, having experienced little of the future so far. - Robert - 9/9/2011 2:28:33 AM
        
        Re: Well, yeah, but young people are by definition immune to future shock, having experienced little of the future so far. - TB - 9/9/2011 4:09:53 AM
    - Re: It's all very 19th century - ER - 9/7/2011 11:30:02 PM
      - History will repeat itself with the Internet? - Robert - 9/8/2011 12:18:33 AM
        
        Re: History will repeat itself with the Internet? - ER - 9/8/2011 2:04:24 AM
        
        One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry". - Robert - 9/8/2011 7:16:43 PM
        
        Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry". - ER - 9/8/2011 9:09:28 PM
        
        Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry". - TB - 9/8/2011 9:46:48 PM
        
        Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry". - ER - 9/9/2011 1:34:15 AM
        
        Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry". - Robert - 9/9/2011 2:39:56 AM
        
        Re: One man's "propagandists and political agitators" are another man's "empowered citizenry". - ER - 9/10/2011 2:38:26 PM
        
        I'm sorry, ER. - Robert - 9/10/2011 6:12:29 PM
        
        Re: History will repeat itself with the Internet? - TB - 9/8/2011 2:18:53 AM
        
        Re: History will repeat itself with the Internet? - TB - 9/8/2011 12:51:13 AM

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