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Well, today is my 90th. What happened to the time?
tl:dr Happy Birthday to me.
I was thinking about what significant developments I have seen. The power of smartphones pales in comparison to some.
Indoor plumbing, yes there were still outhouses back in the day.
I recall WWII, especially the end. Gold stars in the windows. Never be another generation like that.
My father participated in a program named something like bundles for Britain. He made a lifelong snail mail (priceless) friend.
Vaccines (sorry anti-vaxers). My best friend through high school died of Polio.
Medicine: Antibiotics, cancer treatments (my mother died of leukemia, the treatment back then was "eat a lot of red meat"), today's surgery techniques (Wow). Much more. Now AI?
Our first television, 1948, black and white, largest screen available: 10". Weighed a ton. Watched the world series.
Power steering, power brakes and automatic transmissions.
EV's? Won't go there.
My first "computer experience", actually an accounting system, 7 words of core memory, vacuum tubes (valves for you right ponders) could only add, subtract and multiply. People ran payroll on it. Slow? you bet.
My first experience with a computer monitoring open heart surgery patients. 1970.
etc, etc, etc.
Just a Thought:
A Keeper
Their marriage was good, their dreams focused.
Their best friends lived barely a wave away.
I can see them now,
Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress,
lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other.
It was the time for fixing things.
A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress.
Things we keep.
It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.
All that re-fixing, eating, renewing,
I wanted just once to be wasteful.
Waste meant affluence.
Throwing things away meant you knew there would always be more.
But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night,
in the warmth of the hospital room,
I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.
Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...
never to return.
So... While we have it... it's best we love it...
And care for it.... And fix it when it's broken.....
And heal it when it's sick.
This is true...
For marriage....
And old cars....
And children with bad report cards.....
Dogs and cats with bad hips....
And aging parents....
And grandparents.
We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.
Some things we keep.
Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with.
There are just some things that make life important,
like people we know who are special....
And so, we keep them close!
I received this from someone who thinks I am a 'keeper',
so I've sent it to the people I think of in the same way...
Good friends are like stars....
You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
People are made to be Loved
and Things are made to be Used
There is so much confusion in this World because
People are being Used
and
Things are being Loved.
Be kind... everyone you meet is fighting a terrible battle.
Thanks for being part of MY life!
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Happy birthday and thanks for sharing your story!
Makes me wonder if there are even older CodeProject members ...
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I'm eleven years behind you, but a lot of what you wrote resonates with me. Happy Birthday ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Happy birthday.
I experienced some but not all, just a whippersnapper 75.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Yup. If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself 
Started out with Assembler and Fortran (only choices back in the day).
Now, I can't keep up so I cobble together Python scripts.
Fortunately, Chris's GPAI does what I need for our 14 cameras and Blue Iris.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Thanks for sharing this and happy birthday.
Jeremy Falcon
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 Very inspirational! Thanks for sharing and Happy Birthday! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Thanks all!!
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Maybe you should rename yourself to
The 90-year-young-genius
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There's a lot of wisdom condensed in that post, and despite your choice of usernames, nothing foolish about you.
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Yes, yes, yes on so may counts.
7 words of memory - get after it now.
Polio was life crippling.
That lab created crap... well yeah.
I remember all things being fixed too.
And my mom in her house dress with little Ronnie clinging to it.
I was the last out of 5 of us.
It was said that when the oldest of us was small they ate stone soup.
He became an attorney in Pasadena California and ate no more stone soup I can attest to that.
Happy birthday you old coot. 
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Quote: Happy birthday you old coot
Thanks. Fits.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Happy birthday and thanks for making me feel young - nearly 3 years after I started getting a State Pension!
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Happy Birthday! or Xronia Polla (Greek) as my mother in law would say.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Happy Birthday!!!!!
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Feliz cumpleaños!
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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All the best 
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What a beautiful post - Happy birthday 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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theoldfool wrote: Well, today is my 90th. What happened to the time?
tl:dr Happy Birthday to me.
Many more happy returns!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What again! My standard BD response. Well done. Excellent recap of history.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Happy Birthday ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
theoldfool wrote: People are made to be Loved
and Things are made to be Used
There is so much confusion in this World because
People are being Used
and
Things are being Loved.
How true!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Happy Birthday! Thanks for the great post!
I was 5 in 1953, when we got our first telly: a huge Bush with a 9" screen. It was bought so we could watch the Coronation... It exploded a couple of years later (terrible smell of N2O), and the picture collapsed to the size of a postage stamp. No repairing that!
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having watched a youtube on the impact and enginerring of the Biro ballpoint (crystal), the impact that offered literacy rates, I wonder if would have noticed that, though that took off start of 1900s so maybe already established like how a 20 year old views the internet?
Also if involved in fixing any of your own Y2K problems, and hopefully you will be laughing at the chaos of 2038 problem?
happy birthday
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