You Know You're Old/Young If ... 1

[Ashereng]

I have been reading various comments in the fora which seems to date the poster as "old" or "young" sometimes.

I though maybe there is sufficient interest to compile a list to help the old identify with the young, and the young to identify with the old.

If you are in between, I guess pick a side?

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[ctopher]

I remember when my son was born, like it was yesterday. He just graduated HS and is going to college.
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[MintJulep]

Just to get away from techie geek metrics...

You are firmly middle age if you saw the Rolling Stones first "last ever" concert tour.

 

[Ron]

KENAT...if you're an engineer, you're already old before your time by definition!

I received a Post Versalog as high school graduation present 'cause I wuz going to engineerin' school. If ya know what a Post Versalog is....you're probably not young.

 

[JAE]

Ron was that a sort of log shaped plastic thingy filled with Post Raisin Bran?

 

[IRstuff]

You're getting there if you remember seeing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers playing at the Whiskey, with the Dead Kennedys opening by playing their masterwork, "Holiday in Cambodia."



TTFN

 

[SomptingGuy]

You know you're old if your school computer club didn't actually have a computer.

 

[mog69]

You know you're getting there when :-

you still think a 20 Mb Hard disk is big

you hang on to the 5 1/4" diskettes you've had for 20 years in case you ever find something that'll read them again

you try to sell you're kids on how great a slide rule is because it never needs new batteries

you can't think of a drawing office without associating the small of ammonia from the dye line printer and Old Hoburn from the Chief Engineer's pipe

 

[MortenA]

This one i read im a MAD magazine 10-15 years ago:

You know your old when you like the music they play in the elevator (lift - whatever). I still remember the drawing that came along - LOL

Best regards

Morten

 

[0707]

you are young when you want to seem older and you are old when you want to seem young.

 

[sms]

What's a winamp?

You know your old if you have ever even seen, much less used an analog computer. (I have done both (-: )

-The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!

 

[SomptingGuy]

When asked to describe what Simulink is, I normally say it's a digital simulation of an analogue computer. These days the most common reply is "what's one of those?".

 

[Ussuri]

Winamp is an online jukebox software package. I use it for playing mp3's. Musicmatch Jukebox is similar.

http://www.winamp.com/

http://www.musicmatch.com/

 

[ewh]

You know that your getting up there if you have drafting templates with melted spots from being tossed on your ashtray.

 

[ewh]

... and you have arthritis from squeezing your pencil too tight.

 

[Quantum50]

Comcokid: That's good about the tubes.
My first "adult" job was working graveyard at 7-11 convenience store. Most stores had tube testers and late night, the wire-heads would bring a brown bag of tubes in and stand for a couple of hours testing them then ask me to open the storage door to get their replacements. They'd get pretty miffed when I didn't have all the ones they needed.

(sigh) those were the days.

 

[denoid]

Some evidence that I'm over the hill:

1. I keep my slide rule and pocket protector in my top desk drawer;
2. I remember being taught the graphical method of determining forces in structural analysis;
3. I have books that I bought new on my engineering library shelf older than most of my co-workers;
4. Some of my old code books are smaller than Reader's Digest magazines.

 

[Ussuri]

What is everyones opinion of listening to music through earphones at you desk?

In my office all the Engineers, say 35 years and under, all listen to personal music either mp3 players or using the CD drive on the pc to listen to CD's. None of the older Engineers do this. There have also been times where it has been commented upon as unprofessional to listen to music at work (by the older Engineers).

I have read studies that certain types of music can make you cleverer, classical and celtic for instance are supposed to raise the IQ. On the otherhand hardcore techno and dance music is supposed to have the opposite effect.

 

[prost]

and I've read that those studies that connect classical music and IQ were poorly done and therefore greatly flawed. Who to believe?

As far as listening to music at work, depends on the situation. If the engineer is doing a report that has to get done that day, anything that helps her relax and finish the job, I am in favor of. While all of us would like to listen to our mp3 players during meetings, unfortunately this is an example of an inappropriate time to listen to music!

For average, everyday work, no report deadlines, etc., I would discourage mp3 players at work--around my work, lots of stuff happens (short discussions generate spontaneously, for instance) and would be missed by the mp3 listeners.

 

[ewh]

I'm a bit over 35, and I consider headphones to be a vital piece of equipment. It is much easier to get into the flow of what I am working on with them on, provided the music is of sufficient tempo. My ipod currently has over 2500 songs on it, with room for about 1500 more, and I create playlists to match whatever I am doing.

 

[0707]

Ussuri when those 35 years old engineers and under change to listen classical and Celtic music they are getting deaf old people I am not sure if they are being more clever.