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I would never say that in the Lounge!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Cool things about being an adult:
- Eat snacks whenever you want
- No bedtime
- Tired all the time
- Stress all the time
- Wait a sec...
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Looking at what the world has come to, I am happy that I am as old as I am.
I recognize that youth of today have the same right as I had when I was that age, to go for their own generation's music, movies, litterature (or rather: lack of it), social conventions, food habits, ... you name it.
But it isn't my way. Quite far from it. It is far from my ideals and tastes. I could of course turn into a grumpy old man, spending the rest of my life complaining about how bad youth are today, how they ruin the world. It would be of no use - grumpy old men never stopped a society from developing.
I know well that today's young generation doesn't create a very much "worse" world than our generation did, it is just different. So different that I don't feel at home in it. If I had an opportunity to sit watching it for another 100 years, moving further and further away from my wishes every year, I would have gone crazy from frustration. I would rather lie down when I still feel that I can "tolerate" the modern world, even though I am far from enjoying it. I guess I can take another 20 or 30 years, but not much more. I wouldn't mind if it happened much faster.
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I'm sure the older generation has been condemning the younger generation for millennia but we as a species have survived.
They,(the youngers) have to adapt to survive in a world that's rapidly changing and they are doing it the only way they know how.
I'm with you. it's an uncomfortable and strange world that we olders are living in but there are only 2 options available; lie down or go on! At 70 I'll go on as long as I'm able!
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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I didn't realize it would ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing hurt so much.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's like working out, you didn't know you could even hurt in those places.
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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That's the funny part. I've exercised consistently since I was 30. I'm now 58 and I run 15-20 miles a week, lift weights twice, and in the warm weather bike on the weekends. I have fairly extensive osteoarthritis that has reduced my pace from 8:30 minute miles to 10:15 on really good days when running. Lifting weights is affected more by the statin drug I take for cholesterol than the arthritis. My biking is the only thing that doesn't seem affected by my aging. I cruise at 16-18 mph on the flat, 50+ mile rides are  , and I can still climb the Devil's Backbone[^] (a local half-mile steep hill) without getting up out of the seat most of the time.
Based on the old folks who I saw at my 40th high school reunion a month ago, I don't even like to think what it would have been like if I'd been sedentary all these years. I don't mind the pain from working out so much.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I've hiked, biked, kayaked, camped , etc. most of my life and arthritis is getting so bad in my knees and hands it's limiting what I can do. I'm 70 and I look around at my peers and I thank god that's all that's wrong! (Hopefully)
Going to go get fitted for knee braces in a couple of hours, hopefully that will help.
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: I'm 70 and I look around at my peers and I thank god that's all that's wrong!
I ride a bike tour that includes a fair-sized group of retirees. We've got folks in their 70's and 80's riding 45-65 miles a day for a week. A few of them get off the bike, pull a collapsible cane out of their cargo bag, and hobble off. I want to be like them when I grow up  .Mike Hankey wrote: Going to go get fitted for knee braces in a couple of hours, hopefully that will help
My running partner at work had his hip replaced three years ago, and a shoulder two weeks ago. He's out for 2-3 months. Our running joke (pardon the pun) has been:
"We have the technology. We can rebuild him. He's the $60,000 man."
Good luck with the braces.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: A few of them get off the bike, pull a collapsible cane out of their cargo bag, and hobble off. I want to be like them when I grow up
Me too!
Gary Wheeler wrote: Good luck with the braces.
Thanks, looking forward to getting back active'r!
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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I spent 10 years practicing Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido when I found that I had lost most of my range of motion; heck I couldn't even approach touching the floor when standing. That rolled back my clock by at least 20 years, undoing the damage caused by sedentary living and office work. What bothers me most now is trying to figure out Medicare! I just got my card and I am deluged by spam - email and snail mail - offering me supplemental coverage. At least the latter will heat my house for decades, but I still have no idea what the differences in offerings are... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I got all those supplemental emails when I first got Medicare and like you I didn't understand it either.
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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Hi All,
Just seen part of the Imitation Game on Film4 a movie channel in the UK, all I can say is location right, pretty much everything else wrong. Alan Turing builds the worlds first programable computer?
No, try Tommy Flowers of the GPO (who put his own money in when the Govertment said no). Single handedly designing the method for braking the Enigma, no a Polish guy did it and invented the machine they appear to be giving credit to Alan Turing. Turing tradic hero, money making movie, the real people not so much. If you have never heard of Tommy Flowers look him up, we owe him more than we do Turing (this is not a nock at Turing, just people appear to giving him too much credit, too late). Mathematians taking credit for Electrical Engineering again this week, I have had too much to drink but it's Friday and I don't care...
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The crying game wasn't that bad either 
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Wait! What?!?!?
Well thanks a lot! 
BTW. The kid sees dead people.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Quote: Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world
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Given the type of movies that come out these days years decades, I'd still rather take something like this over just about anything else that's being produced.
In this particular case--I'll take imitation over hunger.
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OK, I'm sold. Sometimes it takes me a while to take on a new technology, especially when I don't want to buy into all the other stuff it gets entangled with. Such was the case with TypeScript, but I really didn't want to drink the Angular Kool-Aid, nor necessarily the ASP.NET / .NET Core Hawaiian Punch. But after figuring out how to get TypeScript to work in Visual Studio in a purely client-side development environment, and after using it now for a week to write a little homebrew application, I am definitely sold. So much less grief with stupid Javascript syntax errors, etc.
Why didn't I do this sooner? 
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Now your path to the Dark Side is complete: Click[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Now your path to the Dark Side is complete
The Dark has so many Sides, I don't think my path could ever be complete.
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If only we knew someone who'd written a book about it[^], eh @Pete-OHanlon? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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