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Haus

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Lambourne said:
Did much the same, some great gaming back then. Doom, Duke3d, Heretic/Hexen, C&C, all that good stuff. I still have a 50ft BNC network cable somewhere that I bought because we started having enough people to have to spread to multiple floors.

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I still remember my friends looking at my like I was some kind of technical angel when I described to them how this kick ass new kind of network card we got in at my work could run over what looked like "beefed up phone cables"... (i.e. 10baseT )

Unrelated, but relevant...
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Aazrael

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I just need that Cane I was teased about a year ago in this thread and I will be in my final form...

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RobXIII

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I'll be 50 in a few years, I'm thankful that FOR NOW I'm physically fine and I can act like a teen, but goddamn are my eyes my Achilles heel. 1 Lasik surgery in 2003ish for both eyes, a touch up PRK but just for ONE eye a year back or so. I'm kind of enjoying the monovision, one eye is garbage at distance but perfect for reading and vice versa.

But what's rustling me is, and the best way to describe it is one eye has a set of floaties so big it acts like a permanent morming eye booger, like someone graced my eye with a few transparent frosted flakes, and just left them there :*(

When you're younger, I swear the doctors try harder to fix shit. Now they just say 'well, that will be with you until you die'. Wheee!
 
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Fogel

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Goatface said:
www.theguardian.com

Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60

US findings suggesting ageing is not a slow and steady process could explain spikes in health issues at certain ages
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Checks out

45 and a half years old

With his retirement, Brady leaves the game at 45 and a half years old, more than six years older than the next-oldest NFL starter and the oldest starting quarterback for the seventh season in a row.
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Goatface

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when i realize the people you refer to as the "young couple at the end of the street" have been there for more than a decade.
 
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Hoss

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Goatface said:
when i realize the people you refer to as the "young couple at the end of the street" have been there for more than a decade.
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I do that a lot with the new business or the new light. My wife says, "that's been there for 3 years now". Well, we've been here for 15, so it's REALTIVELY new.
 
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Haus

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New measuring stick...

You keep track of how many people in your bloodline who are older than you are still alive... As of today I am down to 2. (Mother and Uncle) as my great aunt passed away.
 
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Haus said:
New measuring stick...

You keep track of how many people in your bloodline who are older than you are still alive... As of today I am down to 2. (Mother and Uncle) as my great aunt passed away.
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My mom is the oldest of 8, one of her brothers has 12 kids. Decent health across the board so it’ll hopefully be quite a while.
 
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Sledge

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I hired two kids that are almost 18 yrs old.

I went to show them how to create a shipping label using copy/paste and neither one of them knew what "right click" meant on a mouse. I told them to highlight the name, then right click.....not a clue, never even heard of it.

Friday I was talking about movies and they've never heard of Terminator, Aliens, etc.

Didn't even know who Arnold Schwarzenegger was.
 
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Hoss said:
Took a little nap yesterday and I woke up with my bunghole full of lube and I still aint shitting right. Hospitals are a rough place to be when you get old.
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Jesus dude. I opened my eyes to see the crash cart team rush in, complete with priest to give last rites. And I would still take that over waking up to find my ass had been violated.
 
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Sledge said:
I hired two kids that are almost 18 yrs old.

I went to show them how to create a shipping label using copy/paste and neither one of them knew what "right click" meant on a mouse. I told them to highlight the name, then right click.....not a clue, never even heard of it.

Friday I was talking about movies and they've never heard of Terminator, Aliens, etc.

Didn't even know who Arnold Schwarzenegger was.
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I'm still convinced that most of the "smart" late millennials and Gen z that were really just well trained and learned nothing at all about technology. This is pretty apparent in the most recent ones because as you point out they are clueless at basic computer literacy.

There used to be that whole thing "kids today are so smart". Lmao.
 
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I think the majority of that age group's understanding of technology is limited to their cel phones. I was on the subway yesterday watching a girl type messages to multiple friends copying movie listings of times from websites into chat, typing faster than I could talk (although almost incomprehensible grammar/language). Yet my 19yr old son seems to find ways around my blocks on internet access, and I work in IT.
 
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loudgas said:
I think the majority of that age group's understanding of technology is limited to their cel phones. I was on the subway yesterday watching a girl type messages to multiple friends copying movie listings of times from websites into chat, typing faster than I could talk (although almost incomprehensible grammar/language). Yet my 19yr old son seems to find ways around my blocks on internet access, and I work in IT.
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are you blocking porn? nothing will stop a teen that has to fap
 
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Sledge said:
I hired two kids that are almost 18 yrs old.

I went to show them how to create a shipping label using copy/paste and neither one of them knew what "right click" meant on a mouse. I told them to highlight the name, then right click.....not a clue, never even heard of it.

Friday I was talking about movies and they've never heard of Terminator, Aliens, etc.

Didn't even know who Arnold Schwarzenegger was.
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apple mouse is one button
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