Is a lady(cough...cough) and not afraid to say my age I am 36.
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Is a lady(cough...cough) and not afraid to say my age I am 36.
Yes Freddy, there are a lot of us old coots, but your only as old as you feel, I always say. I'll be 65 on Nov 6, but I feel like I'm 40.
my 20 year old son always gives me a birthday card that says :
Happy 21st Birthday Mom
53.
Everyone ages, only some people grow old. The ones who grow old let the child part of their personality disappear. It is the child's curiousity about the world and continued drive to learn that keeps you young. The people at this forum who visit and tend to linger for a while share a common thirst to learn and thereby remain young.....
:cool:
I run a dual-boot system right now..., with Suse and win XP PRO...Quote:
Originally posted by kv
If you really want to get a kick, start playing with Linux on your older systems, the internet is a great resource for learning it. If nothing else, learning Linux gives you better insight into how things work than Windows does, at least IMHO. At best, by the time you hit the workforce, companies may be scrambling for fresh talent with fluent Linux experience.
As for broadband, well, when I was your age, I know I wouldn't have been using it for learning. At least, not for learning the things we discuss on this board... ;) Stick to dial-up for now, it's in your best interests...!
I want broadband for 2 things-
download anime fansubs
host a server of my own..., using linux...
lol, I know what would happen then- I would be posting and typing stuffs for him...Quote:
Originally posted by 104456
Get him to come on-line at some forums with topics which interests him posting to folk with similar interests Im sure he will soon get hooked.Mind you might have trouble getting use of your PC then :D
he can be really closed minded..., so.., I doubt I would ever get him on for anything other then something money related (shoping or possible for deals he has heard of)
Just clocked up 47 big ones :).
OK, I have to fess up. I'm 48 years wise. I've got kids older than Byan too......
I refuse to feel old though..
:D
I'm the Oldest MOD Here, but not the oldest member.
- GG1 is older then me
- I'm older then TJolly
- But younger then jmtjet
- My youngest daughter is twice as old as Byan
- My son is 47 years younger then jmtjet and GG1
- My oldest daughter is 98 years younger then Kazz
- My dog is 5 years younger then Byan
I can remember the song "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" by SPIKE JONES and "Daddy's Little Girl" by Mills Brothers
The year I was born the following happened:
- Pupils carried out a source work exercise on the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
- Manila was utterly destroyed in a single month.
- Los Alamos Secret Disclosed by Truman
- New Mexico's Test Grounds Are Habitable
And YES I completed the POLL
Hey Murf!
You knew Thomas Jefferson too.
;)
62 next month
73 in January........:D
so..., just to do some math...
36<photolady<67
photolady<train<67
53<Murf<67
so, murf is older then train, photolady, and GG1..
wait a min..., if murf is the oldest mod here...,
isn't GG1 a mod?
that means that GG1<murfQuote:
I'm the Oldest MOD Here, but not the oldest member.
that means that murf<GG1Quote:
GG1 is older then me
that doesn't make sence....
54 ... 55 on March 4th.
In 1950 the DOW avg was 235, avg income $3,815/yr, min wage $0.75/hr, car $1,750, house $14,500, and bread was $0.14/loaf. The President was Harry S. Truman and Vice President was Alben W. Barkley.
Vern....you are about 2 months younger than my mother.......
Want to adopt a son?
So you are 59yrs Murf?Quote:
Originally posted by Murf
I'm the Oldest MOD Here, but not the oldest member.
- GG1 is older then me
- I'm older then TJolly
- But younger then jmtjet
- My youngest daughter is twice as old as Byan
- My son is 47 years younger then jmtjet and GG1
- My oldest daughter is 98 years younger then Kazz
- My dog is 5 years younger then Byan
I can remember the song "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" by SPIKE JONES and "Daddy's Little Girl" by Mills Brothers
The year I was born the following happened:
- Pupils carried out a source work exercise on the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
- Manila was utterly destroyed in a single month.
- Los Alamos Secret Disclosed by Truman
- New Mexico's Test Grounds Are Habitable
And YES I completed the POLL
The ones who refused to answer must be women. You know that they never want to disclose their true age.
I am 75½ and still kicking. :cool:
I'm not afraid to say it but it makes me cringe.
55. What is 55 supposed to feel like/be like? I can't figure it out really.
People used to say I look 10 years younger. I suppose I still do. Nobody says it anymore, though! And I hope that's not a bad sign.
I left my newspaper job for five years, and when I came back, it was weird: more than a few people looked really really older (some my contemporaries). I got really scared! Did I look older too? Others hadn't changed one iota!! I don't know how this happened.
Doesn't seem possible. But I feel like I'm still 10 most of the time. Seems like yesterday.
When I was born, they had a computer in two rooms at the University of Pa., with vacuum tubes and switches.
By the time I got to college, there were punch cards, time-sharing and Basic lessons at the university computing center.
In the '70s, some newspapers switched from hot type (Linotypes) to cold type. That was moving up techwise. Then they had scanners (which hardly worked -- I'm still amazed every time I check out at the grocery how well they do now). A little later, they got "CRTs" and "VDTs" to write on. That made it a lot easier to write and edit. Every newspaper I've been on since then had them, and now I'm on a Win2000 Pro network with a dedicated publishing system called Hermes (anyone hear of it? Allegedly they use it in Europe a lot). We don't have heavy lead plates anymore to take "stereotypes" of pages to the presses; the pages are sent directly from our computers by satellite to our printing plant, which is now in the suburbs. Phew! Never did I imagine.
When I started messing with PCs, they were terribly expensive and didn't have much. Some years later, they got a lot cheaper, a lot more friendly and a lot more graphical. I've used a lot of command-based programs, but it certainly is more fun to see pictures and colors. Not to speak of music. And 3D. And so on.
Now I don't know how I lived without our computers.
Cheers
Wendy
P.S. A couple of things I don't miss about my childhood:
1. Constantly being sick (measles, mumps, etc.). Nobody really gets these maladies anymore. There are vaccinations for everything!! My son even got some vaccine series for a sexually transmitted disease when he was an infant!! (just in case -- it was kind of on the rampage at the time and I guess they figured it was better to protect against it then than get it later) I even managed to just barely get him in for the chicken pox shot, just in time for him not to get it!! (The thing every parent dreads: two weeks off work with a miserable, itchy kid)
2. The Cold War. (Though the world seems a lot scarier now since 9/11)
3. Red scares.
4. Fear of nukes.
5. Vietnam
P.S.S.: Who in this forum is under 13!!!!! Speak right up now.
I really love how people of any age can be really smart about computers. Like Byan here. God bless you, kid.
I love how a young pup like Irfan Skiljian can invent a graphics viewer that now is a staple for practically everyone!!
I love how Mike Lin has a program that sits in the Control Panels of people all over the world!! Is this a great country -- er, world -- or what!!!!!
I have been on this Earth 68 years and I may not be as good as I once was but I am better once than I ever was.
Have a Great Day
Its quite enjoyable to see people in their 60's-70's on the web. I hope that when I get to that age, I'll still be playing the latest games, building and fixing computers and cruising the web!
I am a member of a game forum http://el-muerte.student.utwente.nl/lba/forum/ that I joined before my first son was born, he now 5 plays the game with my help and it is amazing to see it through a childs eyes.
He sees things and has a totally different reaction to how I reacted as an adult - quite often a better response.
I have lived during seven decades:eek:
A YOUNG
59
I'm the oldest MOD here - Joined VRDR Jul 8, 1998