So the over-50's were never drink-addled undergrads? Does this mean I'm not going to make it to 50?
I was 51 when I wrote this. There are a lot more of them, almost all of the entire series was about drinking (while on Paxil, which causes hallucinations=), bar hopping, rock and roll, and unsucsessfully chasing woman. So cheer up, young fellow!
How about the environment? When I was a kid you had to roll your windows up when drivingthroughSauget, even when it was over 100f (38c) because the stench would burn your lungs. My parents' generation ripped a hole in the ozone, my generation outlawed CFCs worldwide and the hole is shrinking. My parents' generation started AFDC, which actually caused the poverty LBJ declared war on to get worse. My generation abolished AFDC and started TANF, which is geared to getting poor people into the workforce and out of poverty.
My parents' generation started the Vietnam war, our protests stopped it and got a President to resign in shame. Look at what your (cowardly anonymous GP) generation did - RE-ELECTED the worst President in history who started an even more senseless war just so he and his oil buddies could get rich at the expense of his country.
The only thing my generation fucked up was that we never managed to legalize pot.
And again for the cowardly anonymous GP, back in the '70s there was no incurable STD and "free love" was everywhere. Even nerds could get laid! Women would walk up to ME in bars and ask "wanna fuck?" Nowadays when a woman asks me that, my stock response is "You're a policewoman trying to bust me on a prostitution sting, aren't you?" Eat your heart out, boy. Now get the fuck off my lawn and no, you can't have your balls back!
Your 35 year old "experienced old lady" is my hot young sweet thing.
Please don't think I'm bragging, as being a nerd I don't get laid much (and when I do I have to pay for it), but as I somehow managed to live over half a century, miraculously not dying, I've had sex with women from 18 to 50. And I have to say, experience is more than just age. This old diary entry is about the very best sex I ever had in my life; the woman was in her early 20s (as was I).
OTOH I had trouble getting it up for 50 year old Chris, who wasn't worth a shit in bed. Fortunately the most she ever cost was a beer or two. The most expensive I ever had cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.
The worst thing about being a single 55 year old man is that all the women my age are ugly.
Intertoober 1: "Wow, Jerry, look - is that an OLD guy?" Intertoober 2: "I don't know, maybe it's an old woman" Intertoober 3: "Woof woof! On the intertoobs, nobody knows you're a geezer!"
Looks like one of the geezers running the Telegraph finally got an internet connection, and with awe and amazement discovered that he wasn't the only one.
I've been on the internet since 1997 when I started my web site, originally hosted by my ISP before registering the domain. I ran a FPS gaming site from late that year for a few more years, and got on MySpace in 2004 IIRC, although I don't go there much. I've spent most of my "social networking on the intarwebs" at nerd sites.
And it annoys the hell out of me to get junk mail from the AARP. I'm not retired, damn it, I'm only 55!
On another NEWsworthy note, somebody found a new continent. Sheesh, these kids today...
I used to eat and drink at a now-closed bar named George Rank's. Great food, reasonable prices, great staff. They had a free drawing every Thursday; whenever you came in and bought food or drink you got a ticket, limit of one per day per patron per bartender. You had to be there to win - If the winning ticket's owner wasn't there at the time of the drawing, the bartender would call him or her on the phone and everyone in the bar would yell LOSER! Then the pot went up by fifty bucks for the next week's drawing.
I ate lunch there every day, and stopped on the way home for a beer. So I wound up having 10-14 tickets in the bowl on Thursday. I believe I held the record for winning the most pots there. I figure that Dave, the bar's owner, paid a large part of my eye operation (click the sig for details).
I often remarked that I could win more than the fifty bucks just by not going there. Oddly, right after I started going to a different bar closer to my new home, Rank's closed up for good.
This is neither a virus or a worm; it's a trojan. A trojan is a program that does or claims to do something useful, which gets you to install it. Once installed, it does something else in addition to or instead of what you installed it for.
No OS is foolproof, and even Mac and Linux users can be fools. Mac and Linux machines can be broken into, can get trojans, theur users can be tricked into giving out passwords, but there are no Mac or Linux viruses in the wold.
The great American corporation BP gives ten million to the Republican and another ten million to te Democrat, and no matter which one wins, you lose.
Don't waste your vote on a candidate who will vote against YOUR interests and for the corporate interests. Your two choices are to stay home and be thought apathetic, or vote independant/minor party. I've been splitting my vote between teh Greens and the Libertarians, because I want to gamble, smoke dope, and get laid in an ecologically sound manner.
One of the slogans for the Illinois lottery used to be "you can't win if you don't play", but I figured every time I didn't play, I won $1. Its both stupid and ironic that many of the same people bitching about taxes pay this voluntary tax!
At the astronomical odds against winning, I figure my chances of finding a winning ticket on the ground are only marginally worse than my chances of buying a winning ticket. So rather than give extra money to the government so it will be funnelled to politically connected rich people, I just watch the ground.
In the 19th century they had pocket watches. Then watches got small enough to strap on your wrist. Then we got cell phones, threw away our wristwatches and put the phone in a pocket.
In the 19 century we had vacuum tubes. In the mid 20th century these were replaced by semiconductors, which were smaller and less bulky. Now we're back to tubes again, and the TFA sounds like these are kind of nano vacuum tubes, only without the vacuum.
The nanotube radio is likely like these geek toys nerds have been building since the early 1900s. All you need to build one is a diode, some wire, a piece of wood, and headphones to listen to it with. They used to call these things "catwhisker radios", the "cat whisker" being the diode.
I'm tired of googling these stats, google yourself if you don't believe them
40,000 deaths on the American highways each year
half a million Americans die from cancer every year
Another half million from heart disease
Fewer than 3,000 this century from terrorism in America
Clearly we muct give up all our rights since the threat of terrorism is so huge?
I live in Springfield. Osama couldn't do that kind of damage in his wildest dreams. And what about this or this, both dwarfing the Springfield tornados.
Someone has their priorities really screwed up. Heckuva job, Georgie.
Sight isn't processed by the eye, it's processed by the braiin. Again, destroy your visual cortex and you will be blind, even if your eyes are perfect.
At any rate, I tell the guy about my dead Celeron and how I want to upgrade the motherboard, and get some memory, and get a video card so I can plug it into the TV. He tries to sell me a supercomputer cluster, and I say no, I'm not much into computer gaming any more so a pretty low end one would do.
More likely than not, because of how versatile and adaptable the brain is, information relayed via the implants would be perceived as an entirely different sense that we currently do not currently enjoy
I don't think so; that's not how perception works. What is this =)
No, it's an equal sign and a left parenthesis. Your brain interprets it not as a new thing, but a thing it is familiar with: a face. Even though it doesn't really look like a face!
Schitzophrenics don't hallucinate new senses, their hallucinations (usually hearing voices that aren't there) are of familiar senses. Some drugs produce "synthesesia" (prolly not spelt rite) where you hear colors and see tastes, but I've never read an account of one seeing color as a new sense.
Your senses are from parts of the brain devoted to those senses. You have a visual cortex, an auditory cortex, etc. that have evolved over millions of years.
I fail to see, in light of what I've read (and note I'm not an expert) why you would expect it to be a new sense. How could you read a web page if the letters of the alphabet were interpreted as a new sense?
Considering that the wonderful US Congress can't even get a reasonable anti-spam law in place and instead created one that makes the problem WORSE
You don't understand, the CAN SPAM act does exactly what it is intended to do: it makes it so that you can spam with impunity.
See, what you're forgetting is that we have the best government money can buy. Vote? HA! What's one measly vote against a ten million dollar campaign contribution (ironically from an entity that is not allowed by law to vote).
"Your" representatives don't represent you, they represent fine American corporations like Sony, BP, Shell, etc. who now can spam without fear of the law. Who do you think paid for this law, anyway?
Mods, the GP was indeed humorous but its writer deserved mod points (you don't get points for "funny"; mod me however you want, my karma's excellent so "funny" is fine). His point in the admittedly humorous post was that these lists would be completely worthess, as there is no possible way to enforce them.
This is completely unlike the "do not call" lists; these are country-specific. If I spam your phone and you're on a do not call list, we're most likely to share the same government (at least so far) You can be prosecuted.
OTOH, the AC's post above this one should be modded funny. Oh, right, tough room...
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So the over-50's were never drink-addled undergrads? Does this mean I'm not going to make it to 50?
I was 51 when I wrote this. There are a lot more of them, almost all of the entire series was about drinking (while on Paxil, which causes hallucinations=), bar hopping, rock and roll, and unsucsessfully chasing woman. So cheer up, young fellow!
Ever had an Irish Car Bomb?
-mcgrew
Never trust anyone over 30!
Never trust anyone under 31, either.
-mcgrew
IHBT
-mcgrew
How about the environment? When I was a kid you had to roll your windows up when driving through Sauget, even when it was over 100f (38c) because the stench would burn your lungs. My parents' generation ripped a hole in the ozone, my generation outlawed CFCs worldwide and the hole is shrinking. My parents' generation started AFDC, which actually caused the poverty LBJ declared war on to get worse. My generation abolished AFDC and started TANF, which is geared to getting poor people into the workforce and out of poverty.
My parents' generation started the Vietnam war, our protests stopped it and got a President to resign in shame. Look at what your (cowardly anonymous GP) generation did - RE-ELECTED the worst President in history who started an even more senseless war just so he and his oil buddies could get rich at the expense of his country.
The only thing my generation fucked up was that we never managed to legalize pot.
And again for the cowardly anonymous GP, back in the '70s there was no incurable STD and "free love" was everywhere. Even nerds could get laid! Women would walk up to ME in bars and ask "wanna fuck?" Nowadays when a woman asks me that, my stock response is "You're a policewoman trying to bust me on a prostitution sting, aren't you?" Eat your heart out, boy. Now get the fuck off my lawn and no, you can't have your balls back!
Fucking kids... *walks away mumbling*
-mcgrew
Your 35 year old "experienced old lady" is my hot young sweet thing.
Please don't think I'm bragging, as being a nerd I don't get laid much (and when I do I have to pay for it), but as I somehow managed to live over half a century, miraculously not dying, I've had sex with women from 18 to 50. And I have to say, experience is more than just age. This old diary entry is about the very best sex I ever had in my life; the woman was in her early 20s (as was I).
OTOH I had trouble getting it up for 50 year old Chris, who wasn't worth a shit in bed. Fortunately the most she ever cost was a beer or two. The most expensive I ever had cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension.
The worst thing about being a single 55 year old man is that all the women my age are ugly.
-mcgrew
Intertoober 2: "I don't know, maybe it's an old woman"
Intertoober 3: "Woof woof! On the intertoobs, nobody knows you're a geezer!"
Looks like one of the geezers running the Telegraph finally got an internet connection, and with awe and amazement discovered that he wasn't the only one.
I've been on the internet since 1997 when I started my web site, originally hosted by my ISP before registering the domain. I ran a FPS gaming site from late that year for a few more years, and got on MySpace in 2004 IIRC, although I don't go there much. I've spent most of my "social networking on the intarwebs" at nerd sites.
And it annoys the hell out of me to get junk mail from the AARP. I'm not retired, damn it, I'm only 55!
On another NEWsworthy note, somebody found a new continent. Sheesh, these kids today...
mcgrew
I used to eat and drink at a now-closed bar named George Rank's. Great food, reasonable prices, great staff. They had a free drawing every Thursday; whenever you came in and bought food or drink you got a ticket, limit of one per day per patron per bartender. You had to be there to win - If the winning ticket's owner wasn't there at the time of the drawing, the bartender would call him or her on the phone and everyone in the bar would yell LOSER! Then the pot went up by fifty bucks for the next week's drawing.
I ate lunch there every day, and stopped on the way home for a beer. So I wound up having 10-14 tickets in the bowl on Thursday. I believe I held the record for winning the most pots there. I figure that Dave, the bar's owner, paid a large part of my eye operation (click the sig for details).
I often remarked that I could win more than the fifty bucks just by not going there. Oddly, right after I started going to a different bar closer to my new home, Rank's closed up for good.
-mcgrew
What dumbass can't spell "wild"?
;)
Oh hell I guess it's me...
This is neither a virus or a worm; it's a trojan. A trojan is a program that does or claims to do something useful, which gets you to install it. Once installed, it does something else in addition to or instead of what you installed it for.
No OS is foolproof, and even Mac and Linux users can be fools. Mac and Linux machines can be broken into, can get trojans, theur users can be tricked into giving out passwords, but there are no Mac or Linux viruses in the wold.
You're absolutely correct.
The great American corporation BP gives ten million to the Republican and another ten million to te Democrat, and no matter which one wins, you lose.
Don't waste your vote on a candidate who will vote against YOUR interests and for the corporate interests. Your two choices are to stay home and be thought apathetic, or vote independant/minor party. I've been splitting my vote between teh Greens and the Libertarians, because I want to gamble, smoke dope, and get laid in an ecologically sound manner.
You think I'm kidding.
-mcgrew
I prefer my bad math in Excel spreadsheets
-mcgrew
One of the slogans for the Illinois lottery used to be "you can't win if you don't play", but I figured every time I didn't play, I won $1. Its both stupid and ironic that many of the same people bitching about taxes pay this voluntary tax!
At the astronomical odds against winning, I figure my chances of finding a winning ticket on the ground are only marginally worse than my chances of buying a winning ticket. So rather than give extra money to the government so it will be funnelled to politically connected rich people, I just watch the ground.
-mcgrew
In the 19th century they had pocket watches. Then watches got small enough to strap on your wrist. Then we got cell phones, threw away our wristwatches and put the phone in a pocket.
In the 19 century we had vacuum tubes. In the mid 20th century these were replaced by semiconductors, which were smaller and less bulky. Now we're back to tubes again, and the TFA sounds like these are kind of nano vacuum tubes, only without the vacuum.
The nanotube radio is likely like these geek toys nerds have been building since the early 1900s. All you need to build one is a diode, some wire, a piece of wood, and headphones to listen to it with. They used to call these things "catwhisker radios", the "cat whisker" being the diode.
-mcgrew
- 40,000 deaths on the American highways each year
- half a million Americans die from cancer every year
- Another half million from heart disease
- Fewer than 3,000 this century from terrorism in America
Clearly we muct give up all our rights since the threat of terrorism is so huge?I live in Springfield. Osama couldn't do that kind of damage in his wildest dreams. And what about this or this, both dwarfing the Springfield tornados.
Someone has their priorities really screwed up. Heckuva job, Georgie.
-mcgrew
I don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the home theater, that's all
-mcgrew
Sight isn't processed by the eye, it's processed by the braiin. Again, destroy your visual cortex and you will be blind, even if your eyes are perfect.
Microsoft is also getting into the wristwatch game
"What time is it?"
"Dunno, my watch has a virus"
Well, it was offtopic actually. So's this one.
Computers use binary because they only have two fingers.
Those who can't count don't understand binary
Dude, you can run linux on a wristwatch. The question is, can it run Vista?
From an old K5 diary: -mcgrew
More likely than not, because of how versatile and adaptable the brain is, information relayed via the implants would be perceived as an entirely different sense that we currently do not currently enjoy
I don't think so; that's not how perception works. What is this =)
No, it's an equal sign and a left parenthesis. Your brain interprets it not as a new thing, but a thing it is familiar with: a face. Even though it doesn't really look like a face!
Schitzophrenics don't hallucinate new senses, their hallucinations (usually hearing voices that aren't there) are of familiar senses. Some drugs produce "synthesesia" (prolly not spelt rite) where you hear colors and see tastes, but I've never read an account of one seeing color as a new sense.
Your senses are from parts of the brain devoted to those senses. You have a visual cortex, an auditory cortex, etc. that have evolved over millions of years.
I fail to see, in light of what I've read (and note I'm not an expert) why you would expect it to be a new sense. How could you read a web page if the letters of the alphabet were interpreted as a new sense?
What you say makes no sense to me.
LOL! They rated you "troll!" Oh, the irony!
Considering that the wonderful US Congress can't even get a reasonable anti-spam law in place and instead created one that makes the problem WORSE
You don't understand, the CAN SPAM act does exactly what it is intended to do: it makes it so that you can spam with impunity.
See, what you're forgetting is that we have the best government money can buy. Vote? HA! What's one measly vote against a ten million dollar campaign contribution (ironically from an entity that is not allowed by law to vote).
"Your" representatives don't represent you, they represent fine American corporations like Sony, BP, Shell, etc. who now can spam without fear of the law. Who do you think paid for this law, anyway?
-mcgrew
Mods, the GP was indeed humorous but its writer deserved mod points (you don't get points for "funny"; mod me however you want, my karma's excellent so "funny" is fine). His point in the admittedly humorous post was that these lists would be completely worthess, as there is no possible way to enforce them.
This is completely unlike the "do not call" lists; these are country-specific. If I spam your phone and you're on a do not call list, we're most likely to share the same government (at least so far) You can be prosecuted.
OTOH, the AC's post above this one should be modded funny. Oh, right, tough room...
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-mcgrew