It wasnāt a banana, rather it was a banana slug, so this might be off-topic.
Picture UC Santa Cruz in the early 90s, the idyllic days of no grades and written evaluations. The dress code was āwhen it class, you must be dressedā. Everything smelled like the woods, with tinges of patchouli and low-quality weed, depending on where you were on campus. Winding paths through the redwoods and eucalyptus trees were littered with leaves that resembled banana slugs and plenty of actual banana slugs.
The campus is big, and sometimes I had to hurry to get all the way from one end to the other, but it was do-able on foot. One day, I was hurrying along and my feet flew out from under me. I landed on my butt, then the back of my head. Luckily, I had my hair in a well-placed bun, so it didnāt crack my skull open, and thank goodness Iām fairly well padded otherwise. No one was close enough to see it, but it felt like the classic pratfall. Iām sure it would have been hilarious to watch.
Weāre long past off topic, but Iām bringing topic back
Yes, Iām old
Because youāre only as old as you feel, and I feel old. Because Iām working a job to pay my mortgage, and I wonāt consider leaving it for something more exciting because, as previously mentioned, mortgage. Because my eldest will be a teenager next month. Because I canāt remember the last thing I tried something new.
However, almost all the items one that list are negotiable (except the teenager), so Iām cautiously optimistic that while Iām old today, I might get better
2)a)Something that makes me feel old is being old enough to see the nostalgia industry get oneās formative decades grossly generalized and gotten wrong. And for the culture and politics bent to new agendas decades later.
b)I am at a point where every new ache or pain doesnāt ever really go away, it just accumulates with all the previous aches and pains
c) also, I was talking with a guy in his late 20s:
me: have you seen Tao of Steve?
him: no
me: Oh, well you know Steve McQueen?
him: whoās that?
me: facepalm
Oh yeah, I think thatās why they picked it. True, itās fanciful, and the idea of a fighting banana slug is ridiculous, but theyāre really all. over. the. place. At least they were 20+ years ago.
The punch card era was already almost over when I started programming. I only briefly did debugging that involved āThis card moves the contents of the accumulator to the X registerā¦ā
It appears to me that @XantheStone wrote āItās my husbandās birthday today.ā And then @jyoti wrote āA belated happy birthday for yesterday, Mr Xanthe Stone!ā
Which would explain why the birthday wishes are for āMrā XantheStone. But doesnāt actually prove XantheStone as a Ms or Mr I guess
More importantly though, what are we doing up at this hour?? (itās āstill upā for meā¦āup alreadyā or āstill upā perhaps for you)
