An impertinent university freshman took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen standing next to him at a bus stop that it was impossible for older people to understand his generation.
"You grew up in a different world," the student said in a voice loud enough for the other passengers to hear, "actually, an almost primitive one."
The elderly man said nothing.
The student continued, "The young people of today grew up with televison, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and.."
The student paused to take a breath and the senior took advantage of the break in the young man's litany and said, "You're quite right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young... so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little twerp, what are YOU doing for the next generation?"
The applause was resounding.
And it even plays a tune when it finishes reading your temperature (bite-resistant shield, too!)! From Nickelodeon. Ouch!
I still have fond memories of the 1964 New York World's Fair and the Expo 67 held in Montreal. I was too young to have been able to get to the Fair in Seattle in 1962. But AlamedaInfo has posted a large collection of postcards from all three World's Fairs. I sure miss World's Fairs.
Family Watchdog is another mashup that allows you to type in your street and then see where your closest neighborhood sex offender is living. Brought to you by John Walsh.
Work in one of those offices where they have these damn things plastered all over the place? Great site with all-new office motivational posters.
I guess this is one of the cool things about blogs; anyone can write about just about anything. I found this site called Office Snapshots that posts pictures of interesting places of work like Apple, Google, Criagslist, Cisco and a lot of other places where people report to "work." To satisfy those who just have to look...
they've created a new website that helps you find stuff on eBay and CraigsList based on bad spelling (lots of it!). TypoBuddy.com Watch for even more ideas like this to emerge.
Everything you wanted to know about the upcoming digital TV switchover in 2009. Including where to apply for up to two $40 rebate coupons from the government to help you with your converter box purchases.
