IWere you the virgin?
I cannot tell a lie…I don’t remember!Were you the virgin?
F/C/OT: Let’s feel old!*
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Well I remember every thing that 1294 related except the Obelisk rebuild. I'm 79 and attended PSU from 1963-67.
Registration in the Armory: total pia.Punch cards, baby!
My computer sci Prof, Dr Chinaswamy,Punch cards, baby!
Always told us, “computer is machine, Machine make no mistakes, Only people make mistakes.
The good ole days of punch cards and Fortran!
Punch cards, baby!
This is what they still use in the computer labs at PSU, thanks to poor state funding. However, they will be upgrading to a handful of 386 DOS PCs this fall.
Oh crap.
I can remember being depressed back when I realized I was older than Archie, Veronica, and the rest of the gang who are eternally in high school.
Now I’m barely a decade away from surpassing the vocalist of When I’m Sixty-Four? That’s not a good feeling at all.
You roll with the punches. I’ve done okay. Join a gym and eat carefully. Read good books. Do problems in Linear Algebra. Watch Modern Family for the laughs.
Good for you. @LionJim!
I do enjoy the hell outta Modern Family.
And I’ve been reading up and refreshing my knowledge of vector algebra, to better understand the principles underlying machine learning. Gonna refresh on calculus next.
I don’t do the gym but I get to the park and take a semi-vigorous walk as often as I can these days. It’s something at least, lol
I’m guessing that
most posters don’t know what that is but in our time, we had to change these points and spark plugs every 10,000 miles or the engine would be unhappy with us and not start. We could do more of the required maintenance back then but I don’t miss it.
Ah yes, a distributor. My 71 VW tune up required me to set the points gap with a book of matches and a 12 volt bulb with two leads to set the timing. This was not long after Miriam Hopkins released her hit solo "Those were the Days" (1968 or so)
Good advice. I've always been a bad eater but I exercised a lot. Now that I'm older the exercise is difficult. I'd like nothing better than to start playing basketball again or running a few miles each day but the doctor says no.
My wife says a lot of my age related injuries are due to the pounding I took playing sports. She might be correct. Maybe the best exercise is a little less stressful.
My first car that sputtering something horrible. It turned out that my distributor cap had a hairline scratch between two of the points and moisture got into the scratch. I father discovered the problem and solved the problem by drilling an 1/8" hold in the middle of the scratch.
I saw a commercial that said a person should be able to stand up on 1 leg from a seated position without using their hands. I thought that shouldn't be a problem. Boy was I wrong.
My dad turned 50 when I turned 21. I remember him coming to visit me my junior year when I lived in Cedarbrook. This was in 2001 when they had still had the pink awnings. He walked down to Sharkie's to get a twelve pack of beer and came back all pissed off because they carded him. I tried to explain that liquor licenses were like money printing machines in State College and nobody was ever going to risk not carding anyone no matter how old they are. He will turn 73 next month and he is still just as much of a curmudgeon as he was when he was 50.
I am 43 but my best friend turned 50 in June. He is definitely not like my father when my father turned 50. Not even close.
I think we tend to avoid things that are uncomfortable to do. That is often the worst response because weakness underlies many of those issues. For many, a slow and persistent attack of the weakness will get you back to being more functional.
I know people say things like 50 is the new 30 but there's some truth to it, with a healthy and active lifestyle of course. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm 50.
Unless you struggle with morbid obesity like me, on the doorstep of 60 this year. That’s 60 years of being a smart@$$. No, I never had a 6-pack, but I could run 4.4’s off the street in my PSU days.
I’ve shrunk to under 5’9” and go only 164-ish.Thought you’d be bigger mike
Funny, I feel like a slow and persistent attack of my weaknesses is what I’m enduring every day
I liked this (Resembled this) until the very last line. I've still got plenty of emotions.
It doesn't quite work for me either. It's just one man's point of view. I take it as a cautionary tale.
If the Wonder Years aired today and depicted the same distance of look-back, it would be set in 2004....
I joined this board (the predecessory anyway) while I was a student at Penn State, before I'd met my wife or was old enough to drink. I'm in my 40s now. Hard to believe how much time has passed.
I joined this board (the predecessory anyway) while I was a student at Penn State, before I'd met my wife or was old enough to drink. I'm in my 40s now. Hard to believe how much time has passed.
I joined this board before this board or even the board before this existed. LOL. Let's just say I remember the recruiting stories of Chris Simms and the RB from PA that went to FSU and then started Chemistry experiments.
I joined this board before this board or even the board before this existed. LOL. Let's just say I remember the recruiting stories of Chris Simms and the RB from PA that went to FSU and then started Chemistry experiments.
My first year following online was the year of Kevin Jones recruitment. Those were challenging times.