On Tuesday 31 December 2013 13:19:21 Joel Goldstick did opine: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a quote which I vaguely remember seeing on this list. > > It went something like this: (yeah my rendering is poor) > > > > For a new technology: > > If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of > > > > course > > > > If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion > > If you are past middle-age you never get it > > > > Anyone knows/remembers it? > > -- > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > sorry, don't remember it, but I disagree. I'm pretty old (b. 1953) and > sometimes younger people think they get something that really isn't that > impressive. I have an android phone and I like it, but as a phone, > compared to phones that sit on a desk it totally sucks. > > And then there was the pet rock!
Chuckle. I had heard of it, but had not seen one until it showed up on the desk of a wannabe salesgal at the tv station I was the CE at back then, as somewhat smaller than a baseball and worn somewhat flattened by 20,000 years of rolling along a river bottom. It had a magic markered "Turn me over" on the top, so as it didn't look big enough to hide one of the local scorpions (this was New Mexico folks), I did, to be greeted with "Thanks, that felt good" on the other side. And that was my intro to the craziness that was pet rocks. I even recall at the peak of it, somebody was selling sandwich baggies of sand as pet rock food. I was not impressed by other than the crowd mentality of such idiocy. > happy new year! Now theres a motion I'll second, have a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year all. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I'm beautiful, smart and rich." -- Calvin Keegan A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
