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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #495 on: February 22, 2017, 06:57:19 AM »
  The teen idol you remember seeing on TV reruns when you were 6 or 7 ... has dementia.  :(
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #496 on: March 09, 2017, 04:30:30 PM »
You look down at your boobs and think, "Shit!  I have to iron them!"
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #497 on: March 10, 2017, 12:44:06 AM »
 :lol1:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #498 on: March 10, 2017, 06:06:27 AM »
  ... you envy the 16-years-older co-worker who's going to retire in the fall.  (emo)
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #499 on: March 10, 2017, 11:15:01 AM »
  ... you envy the 16-years-older co-worker who's going to retire in the fall.  (emo)

 :hug: 

I retired one week before my 50th birthday.  The financial cut sucks (took about a 50% cut), but the free time is delicious.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #500 on: March 10, 2017, 04:39:36 PM »
I don't think I would like to. I like doing what I do.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #501 on: November 29, 2017, 03:51:40 AM »
You remember seeing a manual telephone switchboard room in operation.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #502 on: November 29, 2017, 04:24:05 AM »
The first program you wrote professionally was on punch cards.

The first laptop you ever saw cost about 3 months' wages, had a monochrome screen, weighed about 40 pounds, couldn't actually be used on an unstable surface without self-destructing..... and was the most amazing piece of high-tech you ever saw.

For years you thought Moore's Law must be getting close to obsolescence.... because if it didn't everyone would eventually be carrying a supercomputer around in their pocket and be able to carry gigabytes worth of data around on a device the size of a box of matches that only cost a few dollars. And like that was ever going to happen.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #503 on: November 29, 2017, 12:35:17 PM »
MSW and Kek - yep.  And I had a Timex Sinclair PA gave me that you had to attach to a TV set to use.

PA took a programming course years and years and years ago where he had to program the computer by hand, literally.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #504 on: November 29, 2017, 06:56:26 PM »
When all my recent injuries are from sleeping wrong.  :hahaha:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #505 on: November 29, 2017, 07:53:42 PM »
When all my recent injuries are from sleeping wrong.  :hahaha:

You know you're getting old when... you've been a member of I^2 for 11 years and gophers usually only live for 2 to 3 years.

You're like 300 years old in gopher years!!!!
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #506 on: November 30, 2017, 03:02:02 AM »
IIRC they already incorporate spintronic read-write heads into HDs, so I see moore's law holding (in a manner of speaking) for a while yet. When you can't pack more data in 0/1, think of the possibilities when you have 0up0down1up1down, or for a molecule with a dipole as part of the surface to be read, aligned and antialigned. With suitable technology to employ it, thats orders of magnitude 'denser' data, per molecule, storing data not just in electron traffic but in the spin states of the electrons. (their angular momentum, as with other particles is a quantum number known as 'spin'

(I'm sure if I CBF I could fish out  a joke about tony blair being a quantum mathethematician here. He certainly was good with statistics agreeing with him...)
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #507 on: November 30, 2017, 05:40:05 PM »
When all my recent injuries are from sleeping wrong.  :hahaha:

You know you're getting old when... you've been a member of I^2 for 11 years and gophers usually only live for 2 to 3 years.

You're like 300 years old in gopher years!!!!

Want to rub my achy spots.  :zoinks: I've really only been a member here for about four-and-a-half years. This account once belonged to McJagger, so I'm sort of his and Jack's bastard love child.  :orly:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #508 on: November 30, 2017, 08:44:19 PM »
When.... you're older than everyone in your college class, including the teacher.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #509 on: December 01, 2017, 04:17:37 AM »
How old are you? I'd have guessed early 19-25? You think your likely to end up finding out your one of those spazzes with that weird ass kinda fountain of youth effect, like the lfa girl I went to school with and still looks about 12? (her case is rather extreme mind you. I'm 31 and if we ever were to end up as a couple I'd probably have to arm myself to go on a date, every time, she looks that young, or have custom designed T-shirts saying 'my GF is OLDER than I am, piss off' (shes by now I think maybe 32-34. )

I'd love to do some genetic sampling of people with that sort of phenotype, someone who could bottle that up, stick it in a retrovirus and not have the end result cause cancer would find themselves stinking rich, 30something years cut by two thirds and preternaturally cute, AND autistic....shit, I can almost see the piles of cash I'd be using for a bed after a year of sales. There's well-kept, and there's this old schoolfriend of mine, who's in scifi territory. Not a dwarf or anything, normal proportions, but I'm surprised even her hair managed to point downwards.)

I'd love some of what she's got. Getting to 75 or so before catching a grey hair...not an unappealing thought. Although I could see the lass I know from school eventually having to get a gun, to get rid of all the erstwhile vampire hunters :autism:

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