You want to feel old? Try interacting with the Android development community. The average age of the CyanogenMod community, for example, appears to be about 14 years. I actually heard one of the CM devs refer to one of their "senior" developers, who turns out to be 30 years old.
--Doug On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Gary - > > Thanks a lot, dude. The second post that makes me feel incredibly old at > 54 :-) > > You and me both (56)... > > I certainly remember life without cell phones, trying to find a public > phone and the right change. > > In my Private Investigator days (late 70s) I carried a fully analog pager > and had a CB Radio under the dash and a roll of dimes in the ashtray of my > AMC Gremlin and a cassette tape-based answering machine on my landline. No > Rockford or Magnum (though with some of their *funkier* characteristics I > suppose). I knew where all the pay phones were and which ones worked and > which ones were likely to have boogers on the handset. My wife *hated* > the CB (with all the noisy "Breaker Breaker" ratchetjaw chatter) but was > willing to leave it on a mostly unused channel for me to check in with her > on. She didn't take messages but usually was willing to tell me if *any* > messages had come in and in a pinch would play them back for me. > > My first Cell was a Motorola Brick (beam me up Scotty!) that I had for > work for about a year in the mid 90's I didn't go back to a cell until the > early 2000's and was at least a year late on the smart-phone bandwagon. > > Incredible how much things can change in such a short time (including > the differing perceptions of what constitutes "a short time"). > > I remember when (crotchety old man voice) the term "Internet Time" was > coined. It wasn't that long ago except in "Internet Time" where it is of > course, eons! > > Actually, it makes me feel rather hopeful about the future, but at least > a little intimidated... > > I feel more deprecated (and hopeful) than intimidated! > > I voted for Obama more because he was young than because he was > not-white. I would have voted for Hillary if she wasn't *older than me* > (and of course wasn't *actually* HIllary)... > > I want my children's generation *30 somethings* to take the reins firmly > from my *parents* and my own generation (50s through 80s) and be ready to > include the *20 somethings* as they demonstrate their ability (plenty who > are, see Resig and some of our own constituency right here!). I guess you > 40-somethings (Guerin, et al) should just accept being the wise elders you > already have become and get over having the chance to run the world into > the ground. > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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