I knew I was getting old when I discovered that I could no longer use The Breakfast Club as a shared cultural touchstone.
Sometimes these things slip when I'm teaching and it's always a sad OMG I'm old moment.
Luckily, teaching is also how I'm able defend all my current TV watching "because I have to relate to the young people."
OMG now I feel really old.
Your adolescence? His history class.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction but lots and lots of sturm und drang? Did anyone have any plans for how they'd win that one? It was mostly not about losing first.
Okay, I need to go look up this guy in India who moved to a small village and taught the villagers how to install and maintain their own solar energy equipment so they could power the village and bring in computers and networking to link themselves electronically to the wider world. And now they are spreading that training, making technologically self-sufficient (okay, they're not making the stuff from scratch, but you get the point) powered communities one at a time.
I just can't remember his name...
Your adolescence? His history class.
Yeah, thanks, gramma.
Hot kitchens, pop songs about nuclear war....
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Silver lining, David. Silver lining.
FWIW, I am totally on the Go Team India team. They've got my vote for next superpower.
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
As long as P-C knows we didn't start the fire....
Isn't Krishna already 8.0 or something?
Ninety nine dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If i could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go