I watched "Back to the Future" with my sister's kids last night. They loved it. And this year, if I did the math correctly, the movie is 20 years old. 20 YEARS! In another decade, as much time will have passed as had passed between the movie's dual settings of 1955 and 1985.
You want to know some more things that don't seem that long ago? Well, I'll tell you anyway. I moved into my current house six years ago. I got my current car three years ago. I've been at my current workplace for eleven years.
Time is, as Johnny Carson might say, some wild, weird stuff. No, I'm not going to look up the year he went off the air, because that'd just freak me out more.
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 Jun 10 2005, 11:47 am
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Hmmm...
Seconds, minutes, hours, day, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, etc. are just meaningless labels people cam up with to help them have a better grasp on reality. | |
Gughunter, I would just like to know, do you ever get bored of your job after eleven years?
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(it was a couple years before I got the spelling right) It's -sEn, so I'd say it was about five years. :) | |
Gughunter, I would just like to know, do you ever get bored of your job after eleven years? Sometimes. The best thing about the job is that I work with a really good group of people. The worst thing about the job is that, just as we were starting to move toward using a lot more Python, we merged with a company that uses all Microsoft stuff, so instead we're using a lot less Python. Also, in about a week our office is moving and if I don't time my commute right I'll have an extra 30 or 40 minutes to drive. But that's not all bad, because I get some of my best ideas while I'm driving (after all, there's really not much else to do while driving). | |
Except pay attention to the road ;-P
Yeah, it really kinda blows my mind the time difference from 1985 to 1965 is the same as 1985 to 2005. I just can't help but think that we were moving forward alot faster in the former than the latter. Indeed, I am surprised by how much of the current situation seems eerily similar to the 1980's, from Star Wars movies and balooning deficits to slutty pop idols and corporate hijinks and greed (check out some of the stuff going on with pensions- shades of the S&L fiasco). Oh well, at least the phones are smaller..... | |
It's -sEn, so I'd say it was about five years. :) Dude, that was a meta joke! As for what to spend time on while on the road...I am now addicted to listening to audiobooks during my hour long commute. I'll post about that soon... | |
Dude, that was a meta joke! Doh! Looking at it again, I actually believe you. Serves me right for posting before coffee. My dad swears by audiobooks, and I've enjoyed a few myself (generally while traveling with the family), but for some reason I just don't have the urge to listen to them regularly. I keep lying to myself that I'll have plenty of time to do real reading in the evenings. I did think about ordering some CD's from a company that records whole college course lecture series (history, philosophy, math, you name it)... I may yet do that. Anything that can help me become even more of an annoying know-it-all is money well spent! :) | |
Indeed, I am surprised by how much of the current situation seems eerily similar to the 1980's, from Star Wars movies and balooning deficits to slutty pop idols and corporate hijinks and greed (check out some of the stuff going on with pensions- shades of the S&L fiasco). I agree to a point, though most of the stuff you cite can be found in pretty much any decade of the 20th century, I think, in different clothing. (The 1920's, which generally seem cute and innocent to modern folks, are a case in point -- the tommy guns didn't shoot foam pellets, the flappers weren't returning to the convent at the end of the evening, and the jazz music was as scandalous as Ozzy Osbourne was in the 80's -- and now Ozzy's stuff is almost ready to be filed in the "easy listening" section.) I do agree, though, that the gap between the 60's and 80's does seem wider somehow than the gap between the 80's and today; I don't know why. Maybe it's the automobiles, which (with a few exceptions) have been uniformly ugly since the mid-80's. | |
I recall Tom contacting me to ask about editing the book, and it turned out this weirdo I'd seen on the forums, some Guy Tellefson (it was a couple years before I got the spelling right) was also editing it. I sure hoped he wouldn't screw up all my brilliant work...