So tomorrow I begin orbit 59 of my parent star. Hoping that that star is aurorally active for the next couple of years as I only have (at most!) a couple of solar cycles left. #feelingold
FYI... while in line at the Nerd Store today, I was made to feel very old. People behind me in line were commenting on "Still Just a Geek" wondering what it was about, making up stuff that it could be. I told them it was Wil Wheaton's autobiography. Here's the line that killed me... "Wil Wheaton, you mean the guy from Big Bang Theory?"
BRAIN: Seriously? I'm so comfortable and tired. Lemmegobatoslee...
BODY: No can do, buddy. Up and at 'em.
BRAIN: Dude! It's 5am. My alarm goes off at 6. You can't give me an hour? It's so warm and toasty under these covers.
BODY. No can do. You have got to GO. Now get the hell up and make like a damn Russian racehorse on Derby Day or you can kiss that last hour of sleep goodbye.
This is how old I am. I remember sitting in the Terminal room (remember them?) in the IR group at UCL in the late '80s. Someone figured out how to make the BBC micro computers we used as terminals for the Vax 11/780 read out science papers which had been converted to ascii. How we laughed when the synthesiser tried to describe Herbig Haro 111 which was described as HH-111 in the paper. The BBC computer sounded like panting. #feelingold