Oct 13, 2006
Wow, its been almost 3 years since
I did an update to my home page. I think its well over due. I find myself spending
some extra time on my site these days since I switched web hosts. My old host,
Powweb just wasn't doing the job these days. They sold the company to some corporation
in Boston. Well, shortly after the transition, my site runs slow, I get more server
errors and just overall bad performance. Things improved a little, but not enough for
my tastes. No need to reward failure, so I took my business elsewhere. Heres hoping the
new home for my site performs better. One good thing has definately come from the
transition. I changed my home page from an older style SHTML file to PHP file. Gotta get
with the times!
Anybody that knows me, knows I like the 80s.
Not just the music, but all aspects of that decade. Well, a friend of mine posted up a
nice story about the 80s. Take a read at this:
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to
tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up;
what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ...uphill BOTH ways... yadda,
yadda, yadda. And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell
I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over a quarter of a centry old, I can't help but look around and notice
the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had
to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter... with a pen! Then you had
to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week
to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn
record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio
and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother
or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called
they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone
rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug
dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had
the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy
was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and
harder and faster and faster until you died! ... Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen
menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were
screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the
channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear
what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! And we didn't have
microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire...imagine
that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like
an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't
have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards, -The late 20's-early 30's Something crowd!