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Wierd life moment
11-17-2011, 10:05 PM
I just realised.... my father is about chin height on me. This wouldbn't be so strange, except we live together and it's been close to 20 years since I got any taller. It's just... wierd, like the title said.
- CD
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I had a moment about 7 years ago, when I was at the barber shop, when I looked up at the mirror and saw my dad. It was a bit of a shock, because I never saw it in my own face when people say I look like him or my mother. It's one of those moments of Keanu Reeves moments of self-awareness ("Whoa.") like the one you had.
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I had one while visiting the local college gaming group that I've been involved in for (deleted) years now...
and realized that I'd been gaming longer than most of the people there had been alive...
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Hit me fairly recently looking at a photo of myself with my niece on my shoulders as a toddler...Something if I tried to do now would pretty much well put my back out of joint as she is currently 15. (Note that people routinely underestimate my age by a decade or more am 39).
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Trying to Explain to my cousins what an old Black and white Gameboy was like.... or cassets and VCR's. (while at my grandparents, standing next to a shell full of VCR cassets)
I'm not looking forward to trying to explain what the Vinyl record I have on my shelf is.
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I regularly deliver general security briefings and tell the tale of starting my career chasing down viruses circulating on floppy disks - and then explaining what floppy disks are.
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People new to gaming today...
... have always played Magic and/or Yu-gi-oh. That isn't 'gaming' to them, it's just cards.
... have never heard of THAC0.
... see boardgaming as "Settlers of Catan", not "Third Reich"
... see nothing wrong with boardgames with dozens of little plastic pieces with stats on separate cards, but don't get games with all the stats on the little cardboard chit
... think Exalted has always been there (and a little weird)
Any additions to the list? 
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Try explaining the Atari 2600...
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... computers have always run Windows
... the Internet has always consisted only of Email and the Web
... internet connectivity has always been broadband
... laptops have always had wireless networking
... free wi-fi has always been available in every coffee shop and mcdonalds
... games have always had multiplayer online options
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...Computers have always have photorealistic animated graphics.
...Telephones attached to the wall by a wire are weird. ...What's a "pay phone"?
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Ah, these young'uns today...
... think punch cards are steampunk fantasy elements.... ask "what's a 'bang path'?"
... don't know that unleaded and regular used to be two different things.
... have never heard of Logo.
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...have never seen a vinyl record.
...have never seen a "floppy" disk that was actually floppy, if they've even seen a floppy disc.
...have never known Transformers toys that had no robot articulation to speak of.
...will become confused by the old rental store phrase, "Be kind, Rewind".
...have never seen someone write a letter on a purely hardcopy, unpowered device.
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...don't understand the "carriage return, ding!" joke cartoons make about eating corn.
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:...don't understand the "carriage return, ding!" joke cartoons make about eating corn. * suddenly feels very old* 
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...wonder how we effectively control a spacecraft with one button and four directions, when that ship includes firing, thrust, and one other function.
...expect all games to save your score and progress, didn't you know this?
...have always been able to contact people around the world, with little or no effort, rather than having to get a license and assemble an amateur radio rig.
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...wonder why the SFX in the movies their parents like aren't CGI.
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My first post in this thread was suddenly realising how much something had changed, but this one is about how something has not changed, and is in its own way just as surprising given everything else. It requires a bit of emplanation, though.
The town of Alstead, New Hampshire is very small - if the population is over 5000 it would be shocking - but thanks to having been home to a rich old coot in the 1920s or so, it has a prety nice junior high school of its own, and a simply amazing (if small) public library, a beautiful building in the greek style, as in "built from massive blocks of stone to last for not less than 2000 years." The floor and four massive columns supporting a central dome are made out of pinkish-yellow marble, and all the furniture is dark-finished oak. It is, perhaps, sixty feet by ninety at the foundation, and the walls are two or three feet thick. The collection, obviously, is minited, even though it has a full basement as well as the main floor. The accoustics are such that any sound in the place is audible rom the (circular) librarians' desk under the dome, but speaking there doesn't carry to the stacks or reading tables. The area directly behind the desk from the front doors is dedicated to close-set stacks for the more serious works, while the casual reading books are in wings on either side, kids' to the right and adult to the left. Due to space considerations, there's only one catalog computer in either side, thoguh there's a few more for more general use downstairs, in the event/reading room.
This building, with the "back" stacks extended ala L-Space, is esssentially my vision of heaven. An eternal early afternoon with nothing to do but browse the stacks, in that confortable period when lunch has settles but you're not yet feeling peckish for dinner, in a quiet, cool place surrounded by the scent of books and the sound of pages turning, occasionally lunctuated by footsteps on the marble floor or the soft murmur of someone checking out a selection, and all the books that ever were or are or will be or might be (for such the back stacks surely seemed when I was a child) accessible if you just find the right way to walk down and across and back and around and down the same aisle except it's not the same at all. Music players allowed but only with headphones, and if you'e got them turned up enough that other people can still hear your selections the librarian will kindly but firmly ask you to turn it down. Firm chairs at the desks for sitting with good posture and taking notes if you want. Comfy cushioned nooks built into the walls by the widpows, for just loungnig about and reading.
Bliss.
Surely no city of gold or angelic choir could compare. Even 17 (or is it 23? I can never remember) virgins, while they might be more initially distracting, wouldn't be anywhere near as relaxing when they all started getting mood swings and craving chocolates.
- CD, will probably wonder why on earth I posted this in the morning, but it feels very right and significant at the moment
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:...don't understand the "carriage return, ding!" joke cartoons make about eating corn. Likewise, the entire joke behind Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" no longer makes sense to them.
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Wow. I haven't heard that in years...
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