gran rey de los mono |
I saw a thing a few weeks ago, but don't remember where. It was entitled "How to Annoy a Millenial." I shall now paraphrase it here.
1. Call their phone. Not text, email, facebook, or whatever. Call them.
2. Leave a long, rambling, vague but somewhat important sounding message. Ask them to call you back ASAP.
3. Ignore all of their attempts to text, email, message, or whatever other form of communication until they actually call you back.
4. Tell them it wasn't that big a deal and you've already taken care of it.
I related this to two of my nieces last week. They said that if I tried that with them they would never speak to me again.
(I also posted this in FaWtL, so some of you may have seen it twice)
Patrick Curtin |
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The changing paradigm of communication is endlessly fascinating.
The rate of change has gone from centuries, to decades, to years, to now sometimes months.
I was just reading an interesting article about how Bob Seger's catalog is starting to disappear from the radio waves because of his refusal to allow his songs to be released on streaming services.
I have a friend who I rarely talk to these days because he doesn't own a cell phone. He refuses to get one, and I never seem to remember to call him at his home phone.
I am much better keeping in contact with my friend base with Facebook. It alows me passive viewing, and I can comment on their posts at my leisure. It keeps me engaged with whats going on with them without having to call them or write them a letter, whcih I never did back in the day anyway (I dont like phone conversations)
CDs are almost extinct. Heck iTunes download is almost extinct.
emails are beginning to seem very old fashioned.
Landlines are almost gone
Faxes are a rarity
Books, while not extinct, are become more and more of a niche product.
Aberzombie |
The changing paradigm of communication is endlessly fascinating.
The rate of change has gone from centuries, to decades, to years, to now sometimes months.
I was just reading an interesting article about how Bob Seger's catalog is starting to disappear from the radio waves because of his refusal to allow his songs to be released on streaming services.
I have a friend who I rarely talk to these days because he doesn't own a cell phone. He refuses to get one, and I never seem to remember to call him at his home phone.
I am much better keeping in contact with my friend base with Facebook. It alows me passive viewing, and I can comment on their posts at my leisure. It keeps me engaged with whats going on with them without having to call them or write them a letter, whcih I never did back in the day anyway (I dont like phone conversations)
CDs are almost extinct. Heck iTunes download is almost extinct.
emails are beginning to seem very old fashioned.
Landlines are almost gone
Faxes are a rarity
Books, while not extinct, are become more and more of a niche product.
I still hold out hope of teaching my mother how to text.
Freehold DM |
The changing paradigm of communication is endlessly fascinating.
The rate of change has gone from centuries, to decades, to years, to now sometimes months.
I was just reading an interesting article about how Bob Seger's catalog is starting to disappear from the radio waves because of his refusal to allow his songs to be released on streaming services.
I have a friend who I rarely talk to these days because he doesn't own a cell phone. He refuses to get one, and I never seem to remember to call him at his home phone.
I am much better keeping in contact with my friend base with Facebook. It alows me passive viewing, and I can comment on their posts at my leisure. It keeps me engaged with whats going on with them without having to call them or write them a letter, whcih I never did back in the day anyway (I dont like phone conversations)
CDs are almost extinct. Heck iTunes download is almost extinct.
emails are beginning to seem very old fashioned.
Landlines are almost gone
Faxes are a rarity
Books, while not extinct, are become more and more of a niche product.
change is the only constant. My martial art is based on change. But my god, it can be scary sometimes. Western society is heavily based on the idea of a social ladder to climb as one goes throughout life, but it is more of a winding slide to walk up(who didn't do that as a kid! It blew my mind the first time I saw it and made me interested in physics).
Ragadolf |
Patrick Curtin wrote:I still hold out hope of teaching my mother how to text.The changing paradigm of communication is endlessly fascinating.
The rate of change has gone from centuries, to decades, to years, to now sometimes months.
I was just reading an interesting article about how Bob Seger's catalog is starting to disappear from the radio waves because of his refusal to allow his songs to be released on streaming services.
I have a friend who I rarely talk to these days because he doesn't own a cell phone. He refuses to get one, and I never seem to remember to call him at his home phone.
I am much better keeping in contact with my friend base with Facebook. It alows me passive viewing, and I can comment on their posts at my leisure. It keeps me engaged with whats going on with them without having to call them or write them a letter, whcih I never did back in the day anyway (I dont like phone conversations)
CDs are almost extinct. Heck iTunes download is almost extinct.
emails are beginning to seem very old fashioned.
Landlines are almost gone
Faxes are a rarity
Books, while not extinct, are become more and more of a niche product.
My mother texts. (She also learned to program computers on punch cards) ;)
But I'm like her with regards to texting.If it takes 2 or more texts to communicate your message, your getting a phone call. It obviously is not a texting matter.
;P
(I despise being expected to write a novel on my tiny-@$$ screen when a 30 sec phone call would resolve the matter) :)
Drejk |
Seems awful quiet in the Treefort lately. Everyone off doing other things?
Session on Wednesday evening. Going to sleep early only to weak up after two or three hours, playing lotro in the night and morning then trying to get some sleep later in the morning, and well past noon.
I woke up in the afternoon and now I am awake...
Drejk |
The changing paradigm of communication is endlessly fascinating.
The rate of change has gone from centuries, to decades, to years, to now sometimes months.
I was just reading an interesting article about how Bob Seger's catalog is starting to disappear from the radio waves because of his refusal to allow his songs to be released on streaming services.
I have a friend who I rarely talk to these days because he doesn't own a cell phone. He refuses to get one, and I never seem to remember to call him at his home phone.
I am much better keeping in contact with my friend base with Facebook. It alows me passive viewing, and I can comment on their posts at my leisure. It keeps me engaged with whats going on with them without having to call them or write them a letter, whcih I never did back in the day anyway (I dont like phone conversations)
CDs are almost extinct. Heck iTunes download is almost extinct.
emails are beginning to seem very old fashioned.
Landlines are almost gone
Faxes are a rarity
Books, while not extinct, are become more and more of a niche product.
It's still less than 10 years since I wrote an actual letter (you know, the one on paper) - for a short time I was corresponding with some folks from another city I met on convention. That connection slowly vanished over the years, though. BTW: those few letters were all the letters I ever wrote.
I still remember that I learned that my Book Of The Wyrm (second edition) for Werewolf ended going through half the country around 1999 or 2000 through friends and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends...
Drejk |
change is the only constant. My martial art is based on change. But my god, it can be scary sometimes. Western society is heavily based on the idea of a social ladder to climb as one goes throughout life, but it is more of a winding slide to walk up(who didn't do that as a kid! It blew my mind the first time I saw it and made me interested in physics).
*prepares a handful of straws with single short straw*
The one who draws the short one tells Freehold that physics is really just mathematics applied to nature...
Freehold DM |
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Patrick Curtin wrote:The changing paradigm of communication is endlessly fascinating.
The rate of change has gone from centuries, to decades, to years, to now sometimes months.
I was just reading an interesting article about how Bob Seger's catalog is starting to disappear from the radio waves because of his refusal to allow his songs to be released on streaming services.
I have a friend who I rarely talk to these days because he doesn't own a cell phone. He refuses to get one, and I never seem to remember to call him at his home phone.
I am much better keeping in contact with my friend base with Facebook. It alows me passive viewing, and I can comment on their posts at my leisure. It keeps me engaged with whats going on with them without having to call them or write them a letter, whcih I never did back in the day anyway (I dont like phone conversations)
CDs are almost extinct. Heck iTunes download is almost extinct.
emails are beginning to seem very old fashioned.
Landlines are almost gone
Faxes are a rarity
Books, while not extinct, are become more and more of a niche product.
It's still less than 10 years since I wrote an actual letter (you know, the one on paper) - for a short time I was corresponding with some folks from another city I met on convention. That connection slowly vanished over the years, though. BTW: those few letters were all the letters I ever wrote.
I still remember that I learned that my Book Of The Wyrm (second edition) for Werewolf ended going through half the country around 1999 or 2000 through friends and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends...
awesome.
But the Wyrm must be stopped.
David M Mallon |
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My mother not only refuses to text, she won't turn on her cell phone. She keeps it in her purse for outgoing calls, only in case of emergency. I don't even have the number. She refuses it give it out.
My sixty-year-old mother is way more tech-savvy than I am. She has her gadgets, and I have my lifelong case of techno-fear.
Both of my parents got iPads when they first came out. I finally figured out how to use the alarm clock on my flip-phone last year.
Treppa |
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Yeah, my dad was always ann early adopter - eagerly pre-ordered all the cool stuff and built a lot of his own gear in the early days. He was upgrading his Mac when he went into the hospital for the last time in his eighties. Exact opposite of my mom.
That's one of the reasons I find ageist stereotypes offensive all the way around. I read about what marvels today's kids are with electronics. What they are is good users - sometimes - because they got to start young. Being able to use something does not mean that you understand it. That stereotype puts tons of pressure on kids to perform miracles while ignoring the fact that today's tech was developed by people who are now - surprise! - old.
Ability and interest aren't generational; they're distributed across age, race, economic, and gender lines.
People are stupid. That's also universal.
David M Mallon |
David M Mallon wrote:I was just talking with Mark, the frontman of Bridge Under Fire and Operation Hennessey, and found out that the main guitar that he uses (a TV yellow Gibson Les Paul Jr.) used to belong to Bill Mumy, AKA Anthony Fremont from The Twilight Zone AKA Will Robinson from Lost In Space AKA Lennier from Babylon 5.The aforementioned guitar in use
David M Mallon |
David M Mallon wrote:Me playing Lennier's guitar at band practiceDavid M Mallon wrote:I was just talking with Mark, the frontman of Bridge Under Fire and Operation Hennessey, and found out that the main guitar that he uses (a TV yellow Gibson Les Paul Jr.) used to belong to Bill Mumy, AKA Anthony Fremont from The Twilight Zone AKA Will Robinson from Lost In Space AKA Lennier from Babylon 5.The aforementioned guitar in use
I've been growing my hair out in an attempt to cover up my receding hairline. It's not working. I might as well just resign myself to the fact that I will one day become the Screaming Forehead. I guess I should just be glad that I'm not going totally bald like my dad.
Patrick Curtin |
David M Mallon wrote:I've been growing my hair out in an attempt to cover up my receding hairline. It's not working. I might as well just resign myself to the fact that I will one day become the Screaming Forehead. I guess I should just be glad that I'm not going totally bald like my dad.David M Mallon wrote:Me playing Lennier's guitar at band practiceDavid M Mallon wrote:I was just talking with Mark, the frontman of Bridge Under Fire and Operation Hennessey, and found out that the main guitar that he uses (a TV yellow Gibson Les Paul Jr.) used to belong to Bill Mumy, AKA Anthony Fremont from The Twilight Zone AKA Will Robinson from Lost In Space AKA Lennier from Babylon 5.The aforementioned guitar in use
I find short hair hides deficiencies much better than long hair. I'm still holding on to a thin top layer, but if it gets much thinner it's shave-pate city for me.
David M Mallon |
I find short hair hides deficiencies much better than long hair. I'm still holding on to a thin top layer, but if it gets much thinner it's shave-pate city for me.
I used to shave my head all the time when I was in my late teens and early 20s. (see Fig. 1-- I'm the one who's not Paris Crenshaw)
...And then, after a few years, I realized that my head was the same approximate size, shape, and color as a full gallon jug of milk. That put a stop to that pretty quick. I inherited what my family refers to as the "Mallon Melon." You have to realize, my ancestors came from Ireland, and long ago, in pre-historical times, the Irish competed for mates by bashing their heads together like bighorn sheep. At least, that's my personal hypothesis. All the men in my family have freakishly large heads and hands--it's like an entire lineage of Xbox Live avatars.
Patrick Curtin |
Patrick Curtin wrote:I find short hair hides deficiencies much better than long hair. I'm still holding on to a thin top layer, but if it gets much thinner it's shave-pate city for me.I used to shave my head all the time when I was in my late teens and early 20s. (see Fig. 1-- I'm the one who's not Paris Crenshaw)
...And then, after a few years, I realized that my head was the same approximate size, shape, and color as a full gallon jug of milk. That put a stop to that pretty quick. I inherited what my family refers to as the "Mallon Melon." You have to realize, my ancestors came from Ireland, and long ago, in pre-historical times, the Irish competed for mates by bashing their heads together like bighorn sheep. At least, that's my personal hypothesis. All the men in my family have freakishly large heads and hands--it's like an entire lineage of Xbox Live avatars.
I agree. Although I am genetically Scottish, I also have inherited a size 8 monster brainbox. With matching retro Neanderthal brow ridges. But, I refuse to perpetrate and comb a few sad wisps of hair over said ginormous expanse of barren brainland. When the time comes it will be bald head/ZZ Top beard all the way
Patrick Curtin |
Yeah, my dad was always ann early adopter - eagerly pre-ordered all the cool stuff and built a lot of his own gear in the early days. He was upgrading his Mac when he went into the hospital for the last time in his eighties. Exact opposite of my mom.
That's one of the reasons I find ageist stereotypes offensive all the way around. I read about what marvels today's kids are with electronics. What they are is good users - sometimes - because they got to start young. Being able to use something does not mean that you understand it. That stereotype puts tons of pressure on kids to perform miracles while ignoring the fact that today's tech was developed by people who are now - surprise! - old.
Ability and interest aren't generational; they're distributed across age, race, economic, and gender lines.
People are stupid. That's also universal.
As someone who has floated through life on a cloud of privilege, I am finding the ageism of society very distressing. Although I have always tried to sympathize with groups that were discriminated against, actually arriving in one is a very bitter pill.
I guess its one of those things you have to experience to truly viscerally understand. And ageism is minor compared to the other 'isms' running around. Plus I am still immune to the worst of it due to my white/male/cis/American status. Isms seem to have an evil synergy when you are included in several categories.