@chienfou@tinamarie1974 Five part trilogy. Four part by the original author and one more by a second author. I’m just a big fan of Douglas Adams. If you haven’t read “And another thing” then you might want to give it a try. There are some pretty good bits in it. He tries too hard in it but it’s still nice to go back into that universe.
@chienfou Yeah and I liked it. I watched it as the weekly series but it felt like it was meant to be binged. Like every show was meant to be bumped right up to another. I was hoping they went into a third season.
@Fodder650
Ditto on both counts (well, the first and last anyway) Bought seasons one and two on DVD from the Dollartree locally. Best.deal.ever! Loaned them to someone at work who then quit and moved away suddenly… Dammit. Good thing I had a digital backup copy…
@chienfou@Fodder650@FreePasta
Bonus book: Starship Titanic.
.
Also, possibly the Dirk Gently series, owing to the existence of Thor in each. Most likely the same universe.
@chienfou@FreePasta@PocketBrain Do you know how many words there are for the word rain?He would never know that the clouds and rain loved him. I will never forget that about that poor truck driver.
Oh and the Starship Titanic game was pretty good.
@spitfire6006006 Do you mean accurate or precise? There is a difference.
Accurate is how close to the real, or true value a determination is.
In the case of age, by the time you write it down, you are already older than you were a moment ago. So to be accurate, one should limit the number of significant figures, or even better time stamp the data.
Precision refers to how well grouped data are. In the case of multiple determinations of something, values stated or measured can be closely grouped, but horribly inaccurate.
@RiotDemon
Thanks. Did my part and clicked. Surprised at the answers so far (older crowd than I thought. I may have to re-evaluate my hanging out with all these old farts…)
@tinamarie1974
FWIW I was born in St. Louis, lived on Enright for first couple of years then moved to north county (Duke drive… nice 60+ yrs ago, but not prime real estate now…) then Seven Hills in Florissant.
Strangely I ended up 30ish miles from Montgomery.
@chienfou I remember you said you lived in the Lou as a kid. I started in the city and my parents moved to unincorporated St Louis county just before I started kindergarten. Not so far from Florissant, Hanley and Natural Bridge…but it was a different decade
@tinamarie1974
I can remember Chain of Rocks amusement park, where we would have an end of school year outing each year. I think it closed in 1978 or so (long after I graduated in '73)
@chienfou my dad talks about the Chain of Rocks amusement park. I guess he and his siblings (all 11 of them) would get to go there at the end of the school year!
And yes, ssoooooo close to the airport. I remember as a kid thinking the planes coordinated their fly over time with the last few minutes of every tv show I watched. I always missed the endings #frustrated!!
@tinamarie1974
that’s pretty cool. It was fun to go there at the end of the year and they always did ticket specials for cheap for the students. We didn’t do a lot of travelling etc but we always got to go to the park and have a blast.
I also remember getting free tix to the Cards every year. If you had straight A’s or an overall A average you got a pair of tix to 3 different games (out of a few dozen offered) courtesy of the Post Dispatch and Cardinal organizations. Always a summer highlight
@chienfou oh I remember those!! When I was a kid you got two tickets to one game. My sister and I would always try to get it so we could combine our tickets for the family to go! It was always a fun summer outing!
Now, the seats were HORRIBLE, but as a kid I was just happy to be at the ballpark!!
I always wished the Blues would offer something similar, but alas they did not.
@tinamarie1974
we did that too, so all 4 of us got to go to 3 games a year. Good times!.
I only saw the Blues one time but it was great. I wasn’t a huge hockey fan growing up, but once the puck dropped and the crowd got into the game it was IMPOSSIBLE not to be a fan! That was the epitome of ‘crowd psychology’
@chienfou assuming you saw a game at the old Arena, or maybe Checkerdome depending on when you went? It was a great building, I had some great times there!!
@chienfou@tinamarie1974
I lived in Creve Coeur/Maryland Heights area for a few years after college, then bought a fixer-upper house in St Charles.
Never adopted the Cardinals, but learned to love hockey going to a couple dozen Blues games
/image Brett Hull Blues
@chienfou@compunaut Although I enjoy going to a cards game for the atmosphere, I was never a baseball fan. Been watching hockey, however, since I was in a pumpkin seat and LOVE it. I even had the opportunity to work at the old Barn the summer before it was imploded. Best job EV-ER!!
@chienfou@Kyeh well, technically I THINK it was honor roll vs straight A’s when I was a kid, but yes. Also I COULD have graduated a semester early. I decided, however to take an easy sr. year with some fun classes (but also calculus, trig and RPG programming) so I could walk with my friends in May.
@chienfou@compunaut@tinamarie1974 Only in a casual way, I don’t really follow hockey that much. (I do think Joe Sakic is hunky!) Baseball is what I like - go Rockies!
@Cerridwyn
Welcome to the club, same here. Of course, since I am still working full time (and we will have to go to 66 and 2 months for ‘full’ retirement) I didn’t start mine yet.
@chienfou
you can be fined if you do not.
you don’t have to sign up for both A and B, but to keep future costs down, you sign up for … I think it’s A but don’t quote me on that and state you still have benefits from your employer. Then when you stop work, you can apply for the other one.
But not applying timely increases very significantly, the future costs.
So I have a card, somewhere, LOL
/image Medicare Card
@Cerridwyn
yep, that’s what I found also. Since I will probably work for a few more years (8% benefit bump for each year up to 70… assuming SS stays solvent…) I will defer my part B until I hang up my stethoscope for good. Watched too many folks drop dead after retiring to defer my life until then so have worked 7on/7off for 25+years. Consequently I have been able to do A LOT of stuff when I was young enough to enjoy it.
@Cerridwyn I waited until I was on Medicare to get my hip replacement. It hurt much longer than that, I thought it was just a pulled muscle and figured it would get better on its own - it didn’t. The hip was bone on bone, no cartilage.
It would have been $6K if I hadn’t, $250 since I did.
@chienfou In my cousin’s family they engrave the combinations for locks on the locks - but not in base 10. When someone in that family turned 50 I gave that person a hand made card congratulating them on turning 110,010 years old.
@macromeh@pooflady Wear an N-95 mask, social distance, wash your hands often, take Vitamin D3, Quercetin, Vitamin K, and melatonin. Use common sense. Get vaccinated ASAP.
@civia2006 I had a stray that looked to be a mix of rag doll and snowshoe that I rehomed after he got well and settled down (one of my rehoming mistakes - should have kept him, my other rehoming mistake was a tonkanese - both amazing affectionate cats). He was a huge - 19 pounds and muscular, not an ounce of fat on him. 39" from the tip of his tail to the top of his nose. He was an amazing, gentle, cuddle cat. Very, very sweet kitty.
@tinamarie1974 Do you let your dog lick you on the mouth? I’m always surprised when people allow that - it just seems icky to me. I wouldn’t let a cat do it either - I’ve seen where those tongues go!
@macromeh The father of a friend of mine celebrates anniversaries of turning 29th. At this stage of the game his number of anniversaries is greater than 29 though…
@mike808@PocketBrain Don’t think that would impress her-we already have the Ninja Foodi and the Ninja Foodi Grill.
She keeps asking me if I am ever going to grow up-I said never.
One of my clients (I am a CPA BTW) keeping inviting us to go on a clothing optional cruise with him and his wife. I told him who wants to see a pair of 70+ year olds naked. He said that is the age of most of the people on cruises like that of which he has been on many. I told him a CPA is supposed to know everything about their client, but this is taking it one step too far.
@ThunderChicken My client is an african american man-early 50’s and 6’5" inches tall. I asked him if there were many indiv of his skin color at these places and he said very few. So I am sure he would stick out in more ways than one at these places. LOL.
As of today, I’m 52 years, 9 months and 28 days old which calculates to 19,296 days old. Precise enough for your calculations? Courtesy of You Are Getting Old
31, now a year and some change in to retired life lol. Just finished second puberty to become an actual adult where I own a house and have opinions on Roth vs traditional IRAs and am starting to not understand social media trends and a ‘whole year’ year isn’t a very long time at all.
I’m 22.
You can’t whisper to posts, so whisper to this comment if you’d like.
Best guess: A whisper is only seen by a single person. This is my test script… 1…2…3…
I’m 37.1 years old in Martian years.
@rockblossom
or nearly 3.5 score
@rockblossom
light given off by Nu2 Canis Majoris in my birth year just hit earth a year ago.
67
55
37.95
56.5-ish
For another six months, I am the answer to the ultimate question of life.
@zachdecker huh.
@tinamarie1974 https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+answer+to+everything
@zachdecker ooooohhhhhhh THAT!!! I passed that number a little bit ago
@tinamarie1974
HHGTTG… gotta love a book that is part of a 4 tome trilogy!
@zachdecker I reach that milestone the end of this coming august.
@zachdecker I only get 4 more months
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 Five part trilogy. Four part by the original author and one more by a second author. I’m just a big fan of Douglas Adams. If you haven’t read “And another thing” then you might want to give it a try. There are some pretty good bits in it. He tries too hard in it but it’s still nice to go back into that universe.
@Fodder650
Did you watch the Dirk Gently series? It was… weird… but in a good way…!
@chienfou Yeah and I liked it. I watched it as the weekly series but it felt like it was meant to be binged. Like every show was meant to be bumped right up to another. I was hoping they went into a third season.
@Fodder650
Ditto on both counts (well, the first and last anyway) Bought seasons one and two on DVD from the Dollartree locally. Best.deal.ever! Loaned them to someone at work who then quit and moved away suddenly… Dammit. Good thing I had a digital backup copy…
@chienfou @Fodder650
Technically it was 5+1…
+1` And Another Thing…
@chienfou @Fodder650 @FreePasta
Bonus book: Starship Titanic.
.
Also, possibly the Dirk Gently series, owing to the existence of Thor in each. Most likely the same universe.
@chienfou @FreePasta @PocketBrain Do you know how many words there are for the word rain?He would never know that the clouds and rain loved him. I will never forget that about that poor truck driver.
Oh and the Starship Titanic game was pretty good.
@chienfou @Fodder650 @FreePasta
The Rain god! It’s always raining somewhere in the world, and that somewhere is where he is.
@spitfire6006006 Do you mean accurate or precise? There is a difference.
Accurate is how close to the real, or true value a determination is.
In the case of age, by the time you write it down, you are already older than you were a moment ago. So to be accurate, one should limit the number of significant figures, or even better time stamp the data.
Precision refers to how well grouped data are. In the case of multiple determinations of something, values stated or measured can be closely grouped, but horribly inaccurate.
@Jackinga I mean “Overly detailed”
https://www.poll-maker.com/poll3344070xeda44E8E-102
I’ve made a poll you can click if you want.
People love to click stuff.
@RiotDemon apparently I do like to click!
@RiotDemon @tinamarie1974
Yeah, I’ve been playing that ridiculous King of the Clicks game so obviously I do too!
@RiotDemon
Thanks. Did my part and clicked. Surprised at the answers so far (older crowd than I thought. I may have to re-evaluate my hanging out with all these old farts…)
57, for another 6 months
Old enough to know better
@ybmuG l
… but young enough not to care, right?
@chienfou sure, whatever
@chienfou @ybmuG
I thought it was young enough to do it anyway
i was born about 6 months before the Montgomery bus boycott.
@chienfou well now I gotta go Google…I know I’m gonna end up down a wormhole reading about history!
@tinamarie1974
FWIW I was born in St. Louis, lived on Enright for first couple of years then moved to north county (Duke drive… nice 60+ yrs ago, but not prime real estate now…) then Seven Hills in Florissant.
Strangely I ended up 30ish miles from Montgomery.
@chienfou I remember you said you lived in the Lou as a kid. I started in the city and my parents moved to unincorporated St Louis county just before I started kindergarten. Not so far from Florissant, Hanley and Natural Bridge…but it was a different decade
@tinamarie1974
I can remember Chain of Rocks amusement park, where we would have an end of school year outing each year. I think it closed in 1978 or so (long after I graduated in '73)
@tinamarie1974
…so… close to Lambert airfield…
@chienfou my dad talks about the Chain of Rocks amusement park. I guess he and his siblings (all 11 of them) would get to go there at the end of the school year!
And yes, ssoooooo close to the airport. I remember as a kid thinking the planes coordinated their fly over time with the last few minutes of every tv show I watched. I always missed the endings #frustrated!!
@tinamarie1974
that’s pretty cool. It was fun to go there at the end of the year and they always did ticket specials for cheap for the students. We didn’t do a lot of travelling etc but we always got to go to the park and have a blast.
I also remember getting free tix to the Cards every year. If you had straight A’s or an overall A average you got a pair of tix to 3 different games (out of a few dozen offered) courtesy of the Post Dispatch and Cardinal organizations. Always a summer highlight
@chienfou oh I remember those!! When I was a kid you got two tickets to one game. My sister and I would always try to get it so we could combine our tickets for the family to go! It was always a fun summer outing!
Now, the seats were HORRIBLE, but as a kid I was just happy to be at the ballpark!!
I always wished the Blues would offer something similar, but alas they did not.
@tinamarie1974
we did that too, so all 4 of us got to go to 3 games a year. Good times!.
I only saw the Blues one time but it was great. I wasn’t a huge hockey fan growing up, but once the puck dropped and the crowd got into the game it was IMPOSSIBLE not to be a fan! That was the epitome of ‘crowd psychology’
@chienfou assuming you saw a game at the old Arena, or maybe Checkerdome depending on when you went? It was a great building, I had some great times there!!
@chienfou @tinamarie1974
I lived in Creve Coeur/Maryland Heights area for a few years after college, then bought a fixer-upper house in St Charles.
Never adopted the Cardinals, but learned to love hockey going to a couple dozen Blues games
/image Brett Hull Blues
@chienfou @compunaut Although I enjoy going to a cards game for the atmosphere, I was never a baseball fan. Been watching hockey, however, since I was in a pumpkin seat and LOVE it. I even had the opportunity to work at the old Barn the summer before it was imploded. Best job EV-ER!!
/image checkerdome
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 What year was that?
@chienfou @compunaut likely right after it opened in 1929…or do you mean when I worked there? Let’s see, 1994 I think???
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 So in other words, you two smarties got straight A’s every year, huh?!!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974
Yep. Graduated a semester early then moved to europe.
@chienfou @Kyeh well, technically I THINK it was honor roll vs straight A’s when I was a kid, but yes. Also I COULD have graduated a semester early. I decided, however to take an easy sr. year with some fun classes (but also calculus, trig and RPG programming) so I could walk with my friends in May.
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 Impressive, both of you!
@tinamarie1974
By May I was an interpreter in Paris for a Civil Engineering firm… I turned 18 a few months later.
@chienfou @compunaut @tinamarie1974
tinamarie - congrats, you must be happy - your Blues walloped our Avs today!
@chienfou @compunaut @Kyeh I was pretty happy, but it is only game 1. Were you rooting for the Avs?
@chienfou @compunaut @tinamarie1974 Only in a casual way, I don’t really follow hockey that much. (I do think Joe Sakic is hunky!) Baseball is what I like - go Rockies!
@chienfou @compunaut @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I was bor about three months before the Montgomery bus boycott ended.
@ThunderChicken
I qualified for Medicare on my last birthday
@Cerridwyn
Welcome to the club, same here. Of course, since I am still working full time (and we will have to go to 66 and 2 months for ‘full’ retirement) I didn’t start mine yet.
@chienfou
you can be fined if you do not.
you don’t have to sign up for both A and B, but to keep future costs down, you sign up for … I think it’s A but don’t quote me on that and state you still have benefits from your employer. Then when you stop work, you can apply for the other one.
But not applying timely increases very significantly, the future costs.
So I have a card, somewhere, LOL
/image Medicare Card
@Cerridwyn
yep, that’s what I found also. Since I will probably work for a few more years (8% benefit bump for each year up to 70… assuming SS stays solvent…) I will defer my part B until I hang up my stethoscope for good. Watched too many folks drop dead after retiring to defer my life until then so have worked 7on/7off for 25+years. Consequently I have been able to do A LOT of stuff when I was young enough to enjoy it.
@chienfou
I get it.
I gave mine up for a computer years ago.
When my 91 year old dad asks me when I’m going to retire, I tell him - when I’m 102
@Cerridwyn
My dad lasted to 93, mom is 88. Longevity is in my genes. I’m playing the numbers
@Cerridwyn
BTW. thanks for reminding me I need to figure out WTF I did with my card!!
@Cerridwyn I waited until I was on Medicare to get my hip replacement. It hurt much longer than that, I thought it was just a pulled muscle and figured it would get better on its own - it didn’t. The hip was bone on bone, no cartilage.
It would have been $6K if I hadn’t, $250 since I did.
31.9
124 - although that is not in base 10.
@Kidsandliz
ooohhhh… good one!
@chienfou In my cousin’s family they engrave the combinations for locks on the locks - but not in base 10. When someone in that family turned 50 I gave that person a hand made card congratulating them on turning 110,010 years old.
@Kidsandliz
Senary?
@chienfou The birthday one is base two. Some programmers in that family so I knew they’d figure it out. And yes I know what you asked (
).
@Kidsandliz
If base 9, you are 103
If base 8, you are 84
If base 7, you are 67
If base 6, you are 52
If base 5, you are 39
Since one of the digits is a 4, it cannot be in a lower base than base 5. So you can be aged anywhere between 39 and 103, base 10.
@cengland0 Yup (grin)
@cengland0 @Kidsandliz
There you Mehtizens go, teaching me stuff again!
@cengland0 @Kyeh Learning stuff keeps your brain young… of course the other possibility is that it wears it out…
/youtube tmbg older
30.345 years old
Young enough to take stupid risks;
Old enough to forget what it was that I did.
I’m going to raise the average. 74. Very recently.
@pooflady Oh to be 74 again!
@Jackinga @pooflady Oh to be 74 one day!
@macromeh @pooflady Wear an N-95 mask, social distance, wash your hands often, take Vitamin D3, Quercetin, Vitamin K, and melatonin. Use common sense. Get vaccinated ASAP.
What to do if you get SARS-CoV 2
It only takes exposure to one unmasked, infected, selfish, ignorant fool to threaten your lifespan.
Like ol’ Brer Rabbit, lay low. Stay safe.
This too shall pass.
Then maybe you will make it to 74 and beyond.
@pooflady Happy Recent Birthday!!
@kerryzero Thank you.
I was born during Ike’s first term
@st_ellis Me too!
@st_ellis I was a teenager…and graduated high school during the second term.
57 for two more days
30
329 dog years…
43 in 10 days… can we have mehrathon for my birthday?
@GzBiH happy almost birthday!
@kerryzero thank you!
won my b-day gift IRB 
Thank you @meh for the mehrathon
Am I the only one who has to do the math to figure out how old I am because I don’t remember? 59
@callow nope. me too.
@callow @earlyre somehow i always end up doing long division
58, I am the young end of the baby boomers generation.
I’m 50. I look 35 (a shitty 35) and feel like I’m 40. I’m also super-immature, so I’m sure that helps with something.
@ACraigL Ha ha! That reminds me of the shirt I gave my older brother when he turned 69:
26.29 Centigrade; 299.44 Kelvin. Old enough that there is an increasingly low probability of being recognized as a child prodigy.
@Jackinga So maybe you can be recognized now as a late bloomer? (
)
@Kidsandliz Depends.
@Jackinga @Kidsandliz Never say “Depends” when talking about aging.
@Kidsandliz @ThunderChicken That’s why I said “Depends.” At some point, one changes from bloomers of the late persuasion to Depends.
48 and not yet the crazy cat lady! Instead of multiple cats I got one really large 15 lb (and still growing) rag doll mix.
@civia2006 rag doll mix.???
@civia2006 I had a stray that looked to be a mix of rag doll and snowshoe that I rehomed after he got well and settled down (one of my rehoming mistakes - should have kept him, my other rehoming mistake was a tonkanese - both amazing affectionate cats). He was a huge - 19 pounds and muscular, not an ounce of fat on him. 39" from the tip of his tail to the top of his nose. He was an amazing, gentle, cuddle cat. Very, very sweet kitty.
Rag doll is a breed not as large as a Maine Coon and not always fluffy. He’s just a heckin’ big cat who likes to cuddle.
62 here
Much older than I feel or look!
/giphy young at heart
@tinamarie1974 Do you let your dog lick you on the mouth? I’m always surprised when people allow that - it just seems icky to me. I wouldn’t let a cat do it either - I’ve seen where those tongues go!
@Kyeh on the face but NOT the mouth for the reason you mentioned.
I celebrated my 39th birthday for the 26th time last month (ala Jack Benny).
@macromeh The father of a friend of mine celebrates anniversaries of turning 29th. At this stage of the game his number of anniversaries is greater than 29 though…
I am 55 (that is CRAZY) but I do not feel 55. Well, some days I do feel 55. So…there’s that.
Thank you, @DoctorOW, for posting this thread, which gave me an opportunity to buffer my altruism score a bit…
@shahnm So your altruism score is less than your age? (snicker). Or are you older than the hills (too lazy to go look at your altruism score)?
6 months after the formal surrender of Japan in WWII
Just turned 51! Yikes! Don’t feel that old.
Not that that’s old! That sounded rude; didn’t mean it like that
Let’s just say I’m way less mature than my alleged age.
34 in Hexadecimal.
@PocketBrain For those that don’t know Hex, it’s base 16. To convert to decimal, first digit x 16 + second digit = 3 x 16 + 4 = 48 + 4 = 52.
74 but my wife claims my interests in everything haven’t matured with my advanced age. And I still think farts are funny.
@Felton10 They are, they are.
@PocketBrain Tell that to my wife.
@Felton10 @PocketBrain
Give her a Dutch Oven. Did you miss the sale?
@mike808 @PocketBrain Don’t think that would impress her-we already have the Ninja Foodi and the Ninja Foodi Grill.
She keeps asking me if I am ever going to grow up-I said never.
One of my clients (I am a CPA BTW) keeping inviting us to go on a clothing optional cruise with him and his wife. I told him who wants to see a pair of 70+ year olds naked. He said that is the age of most of the people on cruises like that of which he has been on many. I told him a CPA is supposed to know everything about their client, but this is taking it one step too far.
@Felton10
So you must have been ROFL watching Giuliani in court!
@Felton10 I was CFO of an aircraft finance company and was more than once accused of wanting to see an applicant naked.
@Kyeh I didn’t say OLD farts.
@ThunderChicken My client is an african american man-early 50’s and 6’5" inches tall. I asked him if there were many indiv of his skin color at these places and he said very few. So I am sure he would stick out in more ways than one at these places. LOL.
38 on Sunday
@Star2236 Happy birthday!
@ThunderChicken
Thanks
@Star2236 Happy Birthday!
🥰
Sammy Hagar can’t drive it.
@Pony That’s nothing compared to being what Joe Walsh’s Maserati can go.
@Pony @ThunderChicken But Joe lost his license, and now he can’t drive…
/youtube 48 crash suzi quatro
4fucking9
47 and outliving my late fiancé this year…damn I miss him!
@stephbristowak
The same age as Rupert Grint and Emma Stone.
(Combined.)
The answer to everything (42) plus 10
As of today, I’m 52 years, 9 months and 28 days old which calculates to 19,296 days old. Precise enough for your calculations? Courtesy of You Are Getting Old
47
50
I was born in the early days of NASA’s Mercury space flight program
God I feel so young I’m 28
@subsurfhNs It’s a good thing you don’t feel OLD at 28.
31, now a year and some change in to retired life lol. Just finished second puberty to become an actual adult where I own a house and have opinions on Roth vs traditional IRAs and am starting to not understand social media trends and a ‘whole year’ year isn’t a very long time at all.