@capnjb@mbersiam You made me check: 1- Surprisingly, ICQ is still around and 2- My ICQ number is 8 digits.
I know mIRC is still around but waaaay less active.
Remember needing an app like Trillian (still around) that combined the chat apps because you had some friends on AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.
I’m older than Super Glue, the polio vaccine, and roll-on deodorant. I was around before the start of the Korean War when Presidents could serve more than 2 terms.
@capnjb@chienfou@januarymick My kid actually thought that it was “Hollywood”. Early on (she came to the USA when she was almost 10 from Cambodia illiterate, had never seen electricity, didn’t know people could whistle or sing, and could only count to 19 in her native language) we were walking down the street when a full moon was rising and huge on the horizon. I told her men had been on the moon. She told me that wasn’t possible because there wasn’t a ladder long enough.
I bought the DVD “For all Mankind” which is home videos that the astronauts took on that trip in the spaceship and while on the moon. Thinking I had then convinced her she told me, “Mom’s that’s just Hollywood”. . At that point in time she was learning to tell apart kid movies that were fiction and stuff that was true that she saw via VHS’s or DVD’s. And cartoons that weren’t real and ones that were “educational” so true.
@capnjb@chienfou@januarymick What I found interesting was comment, I forget by whom, cut out by media that was something along the lines of, “That may be one small step for you but you are taller than I am”. Or something like that. Made me laugh considering how we have immortalized the one small step comment.
@phendrick@romellex I have crossed the International Date Line many times. But since for every Eastward crossing there was a Westward crossing, I’m no better off on the Geezer Day count.
Perhaps, if I could have made it to orbit, where time runs more slowly as one is further out of the gravity well of the Earth, I could have gained a few nanoseconds over an equivalent Earthbound stay. This would have retarded my Geezerhood infinitesimally, but wouldn’t have reversed time for moi.
Oh, to be 60 again! Or 70! Hell, I’d even settle for 80.
Oh, to be 60 again! Or 70! Hell, I’d even settle for 80.
We visited my mother’s great-aunt in Japan when she was 100-something. She looked marvelous and seemed quite healthy. She told that she’d lost many friends due to age and had to make some younger ones. “They’re in their 80s,” she told us.
On this date five years ago, my age was 3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age then. But now he is a third of my age and 5 times my dog’s age. [Think in terms of whole numbers of years, only.]
(None of us remember President Carter’s administration. Do you?)
@phendrick I remember our family getting a Christmas postcard from Jimmy, Rosalynn and Amy Carter. I thought it was pretty cool (not realizing they were mass produced). Still not sure if everyone got one or if it was because my dad worked for the government.
@phendrick I remember the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Carter administrations and all the rest that came later.
I was a wee bit too young to remember the Roosevelt administration, but I do remember when WWII (VE day and VJ day) ended, along with ration books and stamps (some of which I still have from what my mother left), price controls (PCA), and a lot more.
You see, I’m Geezer, Emertius and I wear my wrinkles proudly for I earned every dang one of them.
@werehatrack@capnjb Other than that, what do you actually remember about it? Not the contemporaneous events, the Playboy interview, the gas lines, his brother, his wife or daughter, but the administration itself. Significant legislation? His cabinet? Without internet help. I was trying to impute that it was mostly forgettable (and forgotten).
@phendrick I need clarification: when you say “my age was 3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age”, do you mean
3.5son’s age plus dog’s age
or 3.5(son’s age + dog’s age)
@brainmist
“3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age then”
reads best as
3.5(son’s age then" + dog’s age then"),
but agree English can be quite ambiguous at times – which is why math can be preferable for reasoning things out.
Kenneth Iverson was a mathematcian/computer language developer who gave much thought to this.
If you are interested in such things, check out https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358896.358899ap
This article should reaffirm why kids should be taught algebra, among other things!
His language APL was powerful, appreciated by math and computer people, but was severely hampered by the need for a special keyboard, usually through a dedicated terminal (back in the old days). He rethought things, and came up with “J”, essentially a language to implement math through English syntactical constructions, implemented through a standard keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
I recommend that anyone who handles a lot of data and needs a lot of calculations on the fly, especially repetitive ones, have a good look at learning “J” (free version available). It’s not that well known, but should be, IMO. It also can get pretty deep, as you might well imagine. This website also gives access to much of his writings on these issues.
@brainmist Also, anyone who dinks around with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino might install J on it and have a go at some cheap data analysis capability, or even just a handy super-powerful calculator!
@capnjb “Guessing”? Was that multiple choice “C”?
Not very sure? Ask Caitlin for algebra help? Use a TI-84+CE to solve a system of equations graphically? I insist on justified work: 1 out of 10 for answer.
@phendrick The missing information is ‘was your dog alive 5 years ago?’ If yes, then your dog is at least 5 years old making your son at least 25 years old and you at least 75 years old. If your dog had not yet been born, then I’m just going to divide everything by zero and saunter off into the sunset
@capnjb Actually, I’m not sure if she was alive (as in, already birthed), since we got her from a rescue agency, and the adoption papers didn’t even have her sex correct. (It’s not that hard to tell on a dog!)
On the first visit, the vet was not convinced she was as old as the papers said, by a month or two. So, at the point in time mentioned, she was less than one year old, but at least alive in some stage, so I figured “zero” was accurate.
I’ll bump your grade up by + 5 1/2 points.
(When I was teaching, several times when I was asked to “change my grade” on an exam, I did offer to lower it, but nobody took me up on that. OTOH, if the grading was actually in error, I would correct it to the appropriate higher grade. I mean, I was a math prof, but not entirely heartless.)
@phendrick I started out writing the equation but then switched to logic as your dog had to be very young or you would rapidly become very old. I haven’t done this in a long time, but from the statements you made, your age could be expressed as x=5y*3 with y>=5 . Unless I complete misread something.
@capnjb For anyone wanting an answer without the fuss, the fancy way: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=x-5%3D3.5\(40)\(40)s-5\(41)%2B\(40)d-5\(41)\(41)%3Bs%3DDivide[x%2C3]%3Bs%3D5d
I’m not sure about the “approximately equal” signs in the solution, unless they were triggered by the “3.5” which it might have regarded as an imprecise number with two significant digits. (I don’t use Alpha often.)
And who says we need to actually learn how to do math? And of course, we have ChatGPT and other AI, so don’t really need to know how to think.
@phendrick I like the math geekery. But honestly, your first statement:
On this date five years ago, my age was 3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age then.
It’s not really meaningful to the solution other than to double check your numbers and set your dog’s age to ≥5. Given that I knew you had a long career as a math professor, I started with your dog at 5 and found a suitable answer in my head immediately. Are there other solutions? Maybe? It was 7:03am and I was 3 minutes late getting out the door because of you so I went with what I had FWIW I book marked that page thanks
@capnjb I guess you’ll have to post a blame to whomever the new goat is. (They’ve been kinda mum on that…)
But the dog was put in to slow down the solution process and make the thinking a little more difficult (and hence instructional). I guess it worked.
Sorry if I got you in any trouble.
@capnjb If you want to get in even more early than that before your boss, I’ve got some problems that can slow h(er/im) down. If they’re into that sort of thing.
@mitzoe “Last”? But how can you be sure? I’m sure old traditions die hard, especially among the crime families. And there could very well be some of those instruments down in basements of old manors. I mean, those French take their grapes pretty seriously. (Evidently, more than their politics.)
If you are my age, you might also enjoy what I’m listening to on YouTube at the moment:
This is part two for 1969. There are also other years with compilations like this.
1969 was a milestone for me.
Bought and killed my first motorcycle (crankshaft seized).
Graduated with my Bachelor’s degree.
Got my first real job, as a programmer. Best job of my life, between the work and the co-workers. Got to cash some real checks for some real money. Didn’t last long enough, because of…
Got my Army draft notice, but avoided the draft (by enlisting into the USAF).
Rebuilt with a new crank (in my parent’s den) and rode again my first motorcycle, all over Dallas freeways and didn’t get run over. My first real introduction into mechanic’n.
Went into AF, on a 4-month delay, so got to salt away a little money from a 6-month job.
Also went to some great concerts, including CCR and Donavan.
But overall, a big life transition. And the music was part of that.
@phendrick
Did you ever watch Tour of Duty? It really sucked when they released the series on DVD since a lot of the music got scrapped and it was such an integral part of the show.
@chienfou No, but I know that has happened in many other series when released to sale.
Copyright issues, usually. I’d think working out a deal shouldn’t be that hard, as it usually costs both sides money, not to.
A lot of video stuff intended for limited tv/film release prior to the 1980’s only negotiated v short term musical rights.
A lot of documentaries and other independent video works got made in the cheap that way.
Too early yet for the makers to envision videocassettes, let alone dvds or Netflix.
—
Then, when these filmmaker rights owners wanted to re-release to later showings on tv or home format, they either couldn’t get the music rights, or couldn’t afford by-now-astronomical-$ music rights.
This crippled the re-release of some fine works.
I remember that Eyes On The Prize, the famous video series (history of the Civil Roghts movement) couldn’t be re-released or re-broadcast on PBS for a really long time due to no one being able to afford the music rights to the songs on the original series.
Finally fundraisers were held to raise $, and some music rights holders made special free-rights-donations available for that particular series.
And finally it could be re-aired on PBS, released on home formats, etc.
The series can now be streamed on MAX, or the digital download purchased from Apple or Amazon.
@phendrick OMG! With all the great music of 1969, How, How! could the number 1 song for the year be Sugar, Sugar by The Archies (a made up band from a comic book/Saturday morning cartoon show) ?
@phendrick@chienfou My personal high point of 1969 was watching the moon landing live on TV.
Few people know/remember that when the camera on the LEM was deployed, the first live image from the moon was upside down. However, the image was corrected before Armstrong came down the ladder and took his historic first step.
Apparently, the (properly righted) video of the first step that was broadcast came from a TV camera pointed at a monitor turned upside-down at NASA.
When a relative turned 90 I made a card congratulating her on making the Guinness Book of World Records for turning 1,011,010 years old. At the bottom of the page I said, “Oh wait. That is in base 2” (Of course then I had to explain bases to her. All the engineer types, IT types and science types in the extended family thought that was a hoot.). Turn page. Then I said, Now doesn’t that make 90 sound young?. Happy Birthday".
Missed the edit window. One family in that bunch engraved all combination lock combinations on the locks in base 7. Even the little kids understood base 7 in that household. Clever.
Well, arpanet was the first switched network and started in 1969 I believe. It’s got me by a year or two, otherwise, I like the shirt quite a bit
I’m older than the touch-tone telephone, but just barely younger than the end of the hot phase of the Korean war.
@werehatrack Make that “nearly a decade older” than the touch-tone phone.
I’m older than Sputnik 1.
I remember thinking “Google - what a stupid name. I’m never using that. i’ll stick with webcrawler and AskJeeves”
@mbersiam I bet you were rocking Netscape Navigator.
@capnjb oh yes. And I met all my online friends through mIRC chat channels and ICQ
/giphy ICQ
@mbersiam I had a 6 digit ICQ number. Some guy in Russia stole it. Dag.
@capnjb @mbersiam You made me check: 1- Surprisingly, ICQ is still around and 2- My ICQ number is 8 digits.
I know mIRC is still around but waaaay less active.
Remember needing an app like Trillian (still around) that combined the chat apps because you had some friends on AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.
I’m older than Super Glue, the polio vaccine, and roll-on deodorant. I was around before the start of the Korean War when Presidents could serve more than 2 terms.
FWIW, Pablo Picasso and I were alive at the same time.
@capnjb
so let’s see… born between 1881 and 1973… Kind of a wide range!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@chienfou I’m kind of an enigma.
@capnjb
soap suds or fleets?
@chienfou Put on your readers.
@capnjb
figured you
wouldcould appreciate that referencemy life Pre-dates the Regan Administration by a few months.
@earlyre Cub Scouts for the win!
@earlyre Regan? This guy?
When I was born the Andrea Doria was still afloat and the Brits and French ran the Suez Canal.
@chienfou Damn. I fold.
@chienfou 1956 saw both things change. I was around but not yer paying much attention to current events.
@chienfou @capnjb @werehatrack When I first visited Hawaii it had been a state for fewer than 3 years.
Older than the first moon landing…hmmm…never thought of it that way
@januarymick Which one was our first moon? Never realized they replaced it.
@capnjb @januarymick
Everyone knows it was all staged on a set in Hollywood…
@capnjb @chienfou @januarymick My kid actually thought that it was “Hollywood”. Early on (she came to the USA when she was almost 10 from Cambodia illiterate, had never seen electricity, didn’t know people could whistle or sing, and could only count to 19 in her native language) we were walking down the street when a full moon was rising and huge on the horizon. I told her men had been on the moon. She told me that wasn’t possible because there wasn’t a ladder long enough.
I bought the DVD “For all Mankind” which is home videos that the astronauts took on that trip in the spaceship and while on the moon. Thinking I had then convinced her she told me, “Mom’s that’s just Hollywood”.
. At that point in time she was learning to tell apart kid movies that were fiction and stuff that was true that she saw via VHS’s or DVD’s. And cartoons that weren’t real and ones that were “educational” so true.
@capnjb @chienfou @Kidsandliz haha…great story…and I found “For All Mankind” on HBO MAX last night…quite amazing, thanks for the tip!
@capnjb @chienfou @januarymick What I found interesting was comment, I forget by whom, cut out by media that was something along the lines of, “That may be one small step for you but you are taller than I am”. Or something like that. Made me laugh considering how we have immortalized the one small step comment.
I am younger than all my uncles but older than one of my aunts.
@yakkoTDI My father is two years older than my grandmother and three years older than my mom. Yeah, let that rattle around in your brain for a minute.
@capnjb @yakkoTDI I am uncle to a niece that is only 8 months younger than me.
@capnjb
brought to mind this classic from Ray Stevens:
I’m younger than McCarthyism but older than Reaganomics.
@brainmist Me too!
@brainmist @Kyeh
Ditto, but just barely…
Old enough to know better… young enough not to care!
@chienfou Touché!
Before Pearl Harbor.
@romellex Me too. 1941, a few months before the Day of Infamy. So I’m an official Geezer, emeritus.
My scale of Geezerhood:
Geezer, 70 or older Geezer, J.G., 65-69.9999
Geezer, emeritus >80
Geezer, fossilatium >90
Geezer, fossilatium with Oak leaf cluster >100 aka Geezer Methuslium.
Don’t laugh. You should be so lucky!
If you lived and died on your 100th birthday, you would have lived 36,525 days including leap days.
Doesn’t seem like a lot of days to for 100 years old does it?
Our days are numbered and there aren’t that many, which is quite a let down from when one was 20 and and would live forever.
Well forever has a number, folks. It is in the vicinity of 36,000 days give or take.
So make the most of the days you have left. Life is finite. Very definitely finite.
Carpe diem!
@Jackinga @romellex But what if you crossed the International Date line in the eastward direction during that time?
@phendrick You win on this one. I’m only seven days into the club. But a proud member!
@romellex Happy Belated Birthday!
/giphy birthday
@phendrick @romellex I have crossed the International Date Line many times. But since for every Eastward crossing there was a Westward crossing, I’m no better off on the Geezer Day count.
Perhaps, if I could have made it to orbit, where time runs more slowly as one is further out of the gravity well of the Earth, I could have gained a few nanoseconds over an equivalent Earthbound stay. This would have retarded my Geezerhood infinitesimally, but wouldn’t have reversed time for moi.
Oh, to be 60 again! Or 70! Hell, I’d even settle for 80.
Que será, será.
@Jackinga @phendrick @romellex I’ve crossed East to West one more time than West to East, so I guess I’m ahead.
@Jackinga @phendrick @romellex
We visited my mother’s great-aunt in Japan when she was 100-something. She looked marvelous and seemed quite healthy. She told that she’d lost many friends due to age and had to make some younger ones. “They’re in their 80s,” she told us.
Younger than the Summer of Love, barely older than Woodstock.
@ircon96 And still groovy!
@Kyeh
On this date five years ago, my age was 3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age then. But now he is a third of my age and 5 times my dog’s age. [Think in terms of whole numbers of years, only.]
(None of us remember President Carter’s administration. Do you?)
@phendrick i voted for Carter.
@phendrick I remember our family getting a Christmas postcard from Jimmy, Rosalynn and Amy Carter. I thought it was pretty cool (not realizing they were mass produced). Still not sure if everyone got one or if it was because my dad worked for the government.
@phendrick I remember the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Carter administrations and all the rest that came later.
I was a wee bit too young to remember the Roosevelt administration, but I do remember when WWII (VE day and VJ day) ended, along with ration books and stamps (some of which I still have from what my mother left), price controls (PCA), and a lot more.
You see, I’m Geezer, Emertius and I wear my wrinkles proudly for I earned every dang one of them.
@werehatrack @capnjb Other than that, what do you actually remember about it? Not the contemporaneous events, the Playboy interview, the gas lines, his brother, his wife or daughter, but the administration itself. Significant legislation? His cabinet? Without internet help. I was trying to impute that it was mostly forgettable (and forgotten).
@capnjb @phendrick @werehatrack
Unlike some that are all too unforgettable because of the incredible unprecedented events they instigated.
Carter might not be remembered for what he accomplished in office but he’s done a world of good since then.
@phendrick
you mean like how he handled the Iran hostage crisis?
@phendrick I need clarification: when you say “my age was 3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age”, do you mean
3.5son’s age plus dog’s age
or 3.5(son’s age + dog’s age)
@brainmist
“3 and 1/2 times my son’s age + my dog’s age then”
reads best as
3.5(son’s age then" + dog’s age then"),
but agree English can be quite ambiguous at times – which is why math can be preferable for reasoning things out.
Kenneth Iverson was a mathematcian/computer language developer who gave much thought to this.
If you are interested in such things, check out https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358896.358899ap
This article should reaffirm why kids should be taught algebra, among other things!
His language APL was powerful, appreciated by math and computer people, but was severely hampered by the need for a special keyboard, usually through a dedicated terminal (back in the old days). He rethought things, and came up with “J”, essentially a language to implement math through English syntactical constructions, implemented through a standard keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
I recommend that anyone who handles a lot of data and needs a lot of calculations on the fly, especially repetitive ones, have a good look at learning “J” (free version available). It’s not that well known, but should be, IMO. It also can get pretty deep, as you might well imagine. This website also gives access to much of his writings on these issues.
@capnjb @Kyeh @werehatrack
Yes, but reaffirms the point of my joke.
@brainmist Also, anyone who dinks around with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino might install J on it and have a go at some cheap data analysis capability, or even just a handy super-powerful calculator!
I’m guessing you are 75, your son is 25 and your dog is 5.
@capnjb “Guessing”? Was that multiple choice “C”?
Not very sure? Ask Caitlin for algebra help? Use a TI-84+CE to solve a system of equations graphically? I insist on justified work: 1 out of 10 for answer.
I’m 50 years young.
@capnjb And an additional 25 old.
And… FWIW, I didn’t get one.
@phendrick The missing information is ‘was your dog alive 5 years ago?’ If yes, then your dog is at least 5 years old making your son at least 25 years old and you at least 75 years old. If your dog had not yet been born, then I’m just going to divide everything by zero and saunter off into the sunset
@capnjb Actually, I’m not sure if she was alive (as in, already birthed), since we got her from a rescue agency, and the adoption papers didn’t even have her sex correct. (It’s not that hard to tell on a dog!)
On the first visit, the vet was not convinced she was as old as the papers said, by a month or two. So, at the point in time mentioned, she was less than one year old, but at least alive in some stage, so I figured “zero” was accurate.
I’ll bump your grade up by + 5 1/2 points.
(When I was teaching, several times when I was asked to “change my grade” on an exam, I did offer to lower it, but nobody took me up on that. OTOH, if the grading was actually in error, I would correct it to the appropriate higher grade. I mean, I was a math prof, but not entirely heartless.)
@phendrick I started out writing the equation but then switched to logic as your dog had to be very young or you would rapidly become very old. I haven’t done this in a long time, but from the statements you made, your age could be expressed as x=5y*3 with y>=5 . Unless I complete misread something.
@capnjb For anyone wanting an answer without the fuss, the fancy way:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=x-5%3D3.5\(40)\(40)s-5\(41)%2B\(40)d-5\(41)\(41)%3Bs%3DDivide[x%2C3]%3Bs%3D5d
I’m not sure about the “approximately equal” signs in the solution, unless they were triggered by the “3.5” which it might have regarded as an imprecise number with two significant digits. (I don’t use Alpha often.)
And who says we need to actually learn how to do math? And of course, we have ChatGPT and other AI, so don’t really need to know how to think.
@phendrick I like the math geekery.
But honestly, your first statement:
It’s not really meaningful to the solution other than to double check your numbers and set your dog’s age to ≥5. Given that I knew you had a long career as a math professor, I started with your dog at 5 and found a suitable answer in my head immediately. Are there other solutions? Maybe? It was 7:03am and I was 3 minutes late getting out the door because of you so I went with what I had
FWIW I book marked that page 
thanks
@capnjb I guess you’ll have to post a blame to whomever the new goat is. (They’ve been kinda mum on that…)
But the dog was put in to slow down the solution process and make the thinking a little more difficult (and hence instructional). I guess it worked.
Sorry if I got you in any trouble.
@phendrick Heh… I still got in about an hour before my boss. I just like the quiet to get stuff done.
@capnjb If you want to get in even more early than that before your boss, I’ve got some problems that can slow h(er/im) down. If they’re into that sort of thing.
Older than the last use of the guillotine in France.
@mitzoe “Last”? But how can you be sure? I’m sure old traditions die hard, especially among the crime families. And there could very well be some of those instruments down in basements of old manors. I mean, those French take their grapes pretty seriously. (Evidently, more than their politics.)
@mitzoe
vous avez plus d’environs 46 ans…
(that was 9 days after my wedding)
If you are my age, you might also enjoy what I’m listening to on YouTube at the moment:
This is part two for 1969. There are also other years with compilations like this.
1969 was a milestone for me.
Bought and killed my first motorcycle (crankshaft seized).
Graduated with my Bachelor’s degree.
Got my first real job, as a programmer. Best job of my life, between the work and the co-workers. Got to cash some real checks for some real money. Didn’t last long enough, because of…
Got my Army draft notice, but avoided the draft (by enlisting into the USAF).
Rebuilt with a new crank (in my parent’s den) and rode again my first motorcycle, all over Dallas freeways and didn’t get run over. My first real introduction into mechanic’n.
Went into AF, on a 4-month delay, so got to salt away a little money from a 6-month job.
Also went to some great concerts, including CCR and Donavan.
But overall, a big life transition. And the music was part of that.
@phendrick
Did you ever watch Tour of Duty? It really sucked when they released the series on DVD since a lot of the music got scrapped and it was such an integral part of the show.
@chienfou No, but I know that has happened in many other series when released to sale.
Copyright issues, usually. I’d think working out a deal shouldn’t be that hard, as it usually costs both sides money, not to.
@chienfou @phendrick
A lot of video stuff intended for limited tv/film release prior to the 1980’s only negotiated v short term musical rights.
A lot of documentaries and other independent video works got made in the cheap that way.
Too early yet for the makers to envision videocassettes, let alone dvds or Netflix.
—
Then, when these filmmaker rights owners wanted to re-release to later showings on tv or home format, they either couldn’t get the music rights, or couldn’t afford by-now-astronomical-$ music rights.
This crippled the re-release of some fine works.
I remember that Eyes On The Prize, the famous video series (history of the Civil Roghts movement) couldn’t be re-released or re-broadcast on PBS for a really long time due to no one being able to afford the music rights to the songs on the original series.
Finally fundraisers were held to raise $, and some music rights holders made special free-rights-donations available for that particular series.
And finally it could be re-aired on PBS, released on home formats, etc.
The series can now be streamed on MAX, or the digital download purchased from Apple or Amazon.
@chienfou @f00l I need to rewatch that. I probably missed parts or wholes of some of the episodes. That would actually be a fitting project for July 4.
@chienfou @phendrick
There is a “Part Ii” series also.
@phendrick OMG! With all the great music of 1969, How, How! could the number 1 song for the year be Sugar, Sugar by The Archies (a made up band from a comic book/Saturday morning cartoon show) ?
@phendrick @chienfou My personal high point of 1969 was watching the moon landing live on TV.
Few people know/remember that when the camera on the LEM was deployed, the first live image from the moon was upside down. However, the image was corrected before Armstrong came down the ladder and took his historic first step.
Apparently, the (properly righted) video of the first step that was broadcast came from a TV camera pointed at a monitor turned upside-down at NASA.
@macromeh @phendrick
Sometimes the best solution at the moment is the simplest. That is the sort of thinking that will win you accolades at work!
Rode my T-Rex to school and back.
Uphill both ways, of course.
@f00l In the snow, of course.
@heartny
Yeah. At least 101F, in the snow. Every day.
@f00l @heartny Why does everybody keep forgetting the head winds, in both directions?
@f00l @heartny @phendrick
My dad would always add
)
“up to my armpits”
to that. (But then, he was in northern Minnesota at the time…
I am 41. But that would not be in base 10. smirk.
When a relative turned 90 I made a card congratulating her on making the Guinness Book of World Records for turning 1,011,010 years old. At the bottom of the page I said, “Oh wait. That is in base 2” (Of course then I had to explain bases to her. All the engineer types, IT types and science types in the extended family thought that was a hoot.). Turn page. Then I said, Now doesn’t that make 90 sound young?. Happy Birthday".
@Kidsandliz So, Medicare-age or a multiple of four past it?
@werehatrack Not giving hints.
Missed the edit window. One family in that bunch engraved all combination lock combinations on the locks in base 7. Even the little kids understood base 7 in that household. Clever.
@werehatrack
Pretty safe bet since given the “right” circumstances there is really NO age limit to Medicare.
@chienfou There’s a hard lower limit, though, at 0x41
@werehatrack
Pretty sure she has been born already so what’s your point?
@Kidsandliz “Not giving hints.”
But you did. (I’m going to assume a min age and a max):
base … decimal value
==== … ==========
10 … 41 you said it wasn’t this
11 … 45
12 … 49
13 … 53
14 … 57
15 … 61
16 … 65
17 … 69
18 … 73
19 … 77
20 … 81
21 … 85
22 … 89
23 … 93
24 … 97
25 … 101
I’m confident that right column displays your age.
Somewhere. You better 'fess up more particulars, unless you want people here thinking you are 101.
Maybe everyone should offer a guess!!!
@phendrick My mom says you aren’t old until you are 104 so 101 is good.
@Kidsandliz @phendrick There is also the possibility that the base is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9. But that seems improbable.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack I posit that @Kidsandliz is more than a little base.
@phendrick I think you are a bit off base here based on how that could be interpreted…
Disneyland beat me by just a Teensy bit
@Cerridwyn But even a light smack-down by Mickey Mouse has got to be hard to take as a kid.
@Cerridwyn @macromeh I wouldn’t trust anyone who wanted to dress up as a mouse, anyway.
@Cerridwyn @phendrick The problem is examined in this hard-hitting documentary:
I’d like to think that I’m saving the best for last
I’m not sure it always works out that way