Ruminations

[skonen_blades]

This unbroken chain of events that I call my life links back for three and a half decades to the time of my parents. My mom was born in the fifties. My dad was born in the forties. He remembered, through a child’s eyes, the end of World War 2. That sounds ancient to me

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[kindelingboy]

I like remembering when cell phones were a rare status symbol, and the introduction of the two dollar coin.

[skonen_blades]

There's an old movie called The Sure Thing with John Cusack. In one scene, John gets a call from a friend in LA. His friend is on an air mattress in a pool in the sun and he says to John, "What's up buddy? I'm talking to you cordless!" like 'check out the ludicrously high-profile life I'm living'. Ah, the two-dollar coin. Right. That was big deal. Loonies and toonies. What's next? Treenies? Fornies? Finnies? That would be cool, actually. Paying with gold coins makes me feel like a pirate. : )

[sr_smith]

I remember seeing 'The Sure Thing' at the theatre on $2 Tuesday. I know exactly what you mean.

[skonen_blades]

Oh my, the two-dollar Tuesdays. I'd forgotten all about those. That's the equivalent of grandpa talking about getting a candy bar for a nickel. Awesome.

[skonen_blades]

In a way, it's a privilege to have been around before the shift online.

[sr_smith]

I know people for whom the word 'baud' has no meaning. I remember staying up all night so I could phone German companies with numbers I'd found in trade journals from the Toronto Reference Library looking for industrial wash equipment at the start of their business day, hoping to find someone that spoke English because that was the only way you could get information on products from the other side of the world.

We're not old, the rate of change of the world around us is just increasing at an alarming rate and we are the fortunate ones to have paddled out to the wave just before it broke.

[skonen_blades]

I hear that. I heard of a reverse mentorship program on the go right now at a few companies where the 25-year-olds are teaching the 45-year-olds about Net 2.0 and the like. It's a nutty world. I like it just fine but it's nutty.

[moosl]

I started my ponytail when I got out of the army in 1982. My ponytail is older than some of my co-workers.

[skonen_blades]

Ha ha. Too good.

Jonny Vancouver

[anonymous]

I recently told a girl that I work with that "I have mixtapes older than you."

Re: Jonny Vancouver

[skonen_blades]

Ha ha. Yeah, exactly.