05:52 pm - On aging less than gracefully
So last weekend was a con weekend, Nan Desu Kan 2007. NDK is always fun, even if I show up on Friday in a pissy mood I always manage to have a good time there.
Anyway, I'm sitting in main events on Sunday, just having idle conversation with this little teenybopper while waiting for the next even, and the subject of cons comes up. She'd been to ACen (and didn't think much of it) and asked me about the local con scene. I told her what I knew and said something like "..and I've been going to cons in the Denver area since, oh, around 1990."
She nods and says "Yeah, so that'd be the year before I was born."
Old Mal is oooooooollllllllllllld.
Current Mood: aging
Current Music: Big Giant Circles - Every Story Begins with a Name (Opening - Bombing Mission)
While I was teaching younglings (of 18) a programming course last year, we had a Respected Elder come to lecture about Win32. So he introduces himself and puts up his first slide on Win32, which is dates and events leading up to Win32. QDos, Win16, that kind of stuff. Then he asks them what year were they born and bursts out in a cry of frustration when he finds out that they were not alive for about half the slide...