I was born way back in the prehistoric age of the '70s*
We have discovered in the past few days that, according to the nephews (mostly Xzavier), "the '70s" encompasses all of history prior to the time when they were born. The other day something came up regarding World War II, and one of the nephews responded with, "When was that... the '70s?" After I recovered myself (history majors don't react well to this kind of thing) I patiently explained to him that, no, World War II was in the 1940s, something that their grandparents just missed but their great-grandparents lived through.
Later in the week, we sat at Wendy's, eating our food and observing the people standing in line. "Those girls look like hippies," Xzavier says. I turn to see two girls that look like they just stepped out of a sorority. Not only does he not know the definition of "hippie," but when I tried to explain it, he once again said "They're from... like... the '70s, right?"
*headdesk*
Finally, we visited a park where they had a group playing big band music (Bryon's parents were selling pizza for Lions Club). A sea of white-haired men and women in lawn chairs were enjoying the music and watching a handful of couples (including Bryon's grandparents) dancing on the platform in front of the band's pavilion. The nephews, who apparently had never heard this kind of music before, stared in awe at the dancers, and finally Xzavier asked me if, you guessed it, they were doing "dances from the '70s." (To which I replied, "No, but the dancers are probably IN their 70s.")
XD
I am taking it as my personal mission to try and expand their historical horizons a bit, at least enough so they get some sense that there were a lot of generations before them instead of one large lump of history that can all be referred to as "the '70s." We'll see how it goes.
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In the meantime, I have completely fallen in love with Windows Vista. Why, you ask? Last night I was trying to upload some pictures onto the computer from my camera's memory card. Not only did Windows offer to upload them off the card itself, it asked if I wanted to tag any of them and put them all into Windows Photo Gallery. Now, my reaction was, "Hey, this is really neat, but it's going to be a pain in the rear because I'll have to re-tag the 3000+ photos I tagged using Adobe Photoshop Elements on the old computer." However, playing around a bit, I discovered that Windows recognized all my tags and sorted everything in the Gallery for me. OMFG. *swoon* Not only that, it allowed me to tag all my previously untaggable videos, and the navigation options in the Gallery are possibly better than in Elements! Hopefully, it will even have an easier backup process. I am so excited about this I can't even convey it in words. I have already tagged every untagged item, and I'm halfway through captioning all my Japan trip photos so that I don't forget what they all are.
I will soon be posting some photos, reveling in my new discovery. XD~~
* Yes, I was born in the '70s... but I just barely made it by one week. :D
P.S. I added some new icons... I lurrrrve them. The one on this post cracks me up, and my new default icon is a beautiful coloring job. My icons are all credited to their creators here. Someday I will take the time to make some of my own again.
Later in the week, we sat at Wendy's, eating our food and observing the people standing in line. "Those girls look like hippies," Xzavier says. I turn to see two girls that look like they just stepped out of a sorority. Not only does he not know the definition of "hippie," but when I tried to explain it, he once again said "They're from... like... the '70s, right?"
*headdesk*
Finally, we visited a park where they had a group playing big band music (Bryon's parents were selling pizza for Lions Club). A sea of white-haired men and women in lawn chairs were enjoying the music and watching a handful of couples (including Bryon's grandparents) dancing on the platform in front of the band's pavilion. The nephews, who apparently had never heard this kind of music before, stared in awe at the dancers, and finally Xzavier asked me if, you guessed it, they were doing "dances from the '70s." (To which I replied, "No, but the dancers are probably IN their 70s.")
XD
I am taking it as my personal mission to try and expand their historical horizons a bit, at least enough so they get some sense that there were a lot of generations before them instead of one large lump of history that can all be referred to as "the '70s." We'll see how it goes.
...
In the meantime, I have completely fallen in love with Windows Vista. Why, you ask? Last night I was trying to upload some pictures onto the computer from my camera's memory card. Not only did Windows offer to upload them off the card itself, it asked if I wanted to tag any of them and put them all into Windows Photo Gallery. Now, my reaction was, "Hey, this is really neat, but it's going to be a pain in the rear because I'll have to re-tag the 3000+ photos I tagged using Adobe Photoshop Elements on the old computer." However, playing around a bit, I discovered that Windows recognized all my tags and sorted everything in the Gallery for me. OMFG. *swoon* Not only that, it allowed me to tag all my previously untaggable videos, and the navigation options in the Gallery are possibly better than in Elements! Hopefully, it will even have an easier backup process. I am so excited about this I can't even convey it in words. I have already tagged every untagged item, and I'm halfway through captioning all my Japan trip photos so that I don't forget what they all are.
I will soon be posting some photos, reveling in my new discovery. XD~~
* Yes, I was born in the '70s... but I just barely made it by one week. :D
P.S. I added some new icons... I lurrrrve them. The one on this post cracks me up, and my new default icon is a beautiful coloring job. My icons are all credited to their creators here. Someday I will take the time to make some of my own again.