Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 03, 2015

But we can say – it was so last century.

I have always liked the sound of really old people saying, “Well, back in ought 8 we did this”….So I was really cool with the idea of us now being able to say “Yup I remember back in ought six…” …But it has occurred to me that for a whole century we get to say ought whatever, because there is always a zero there. This is Ought 15, doncha know….

How about that! We are all 20-somethings again!

Being born in the previous millennium I truly understand Arlo.

There will never be another Greatest Generation.

Why do we say nineteen (19) back then but two-thousand now? Why not twenty (20? Just to be kind to nineteen (19)?

In the year of 2000, I worked in a computer room testing for the Y2K. Everyone thought all the computers in the world would crash.

We worried about Y2K but all the crazy stuff happened after that moment. Still to be determined I think…..

My younger daughter laid up supplies for 2000 as a Mormon would for whatever disaster. My brother-in-law, who was a data analyst, said, “Nothing will happen. Computers are always messing up, and nothing happens.”

and to think I worried about 1984

I had no trouble adjusting to referring to the Gilded Age as “the turn of the previous century”.

It is twenty-something not two thousand-something …. get with the program already! This is a pet peeve of mine.

I agree with Dr. McCoy…..

It’s 2015 and we still don’t have flying cars, and still no colonies on Mar or even the moon. I am greatly disappointed by the slow snails pace of our technological advances. We expected it to be much faster back in the 1960’s.

Harry’s a pretty cool guy; I’ve met him a few times at conventions and meetings of the SF club I belong to. He’s also written some straight historical fiction under the name Turtletaub that are pretty good, mostly from the classic Greek period.

Notice how Arlo’s cap resembles Janis’ hairdo?

“Been reading an Alternate History book by Harry Turtledove ".He writes well. I enjoyed his lizard conquest stories and his Robert E. Lee and the AK-47 time travel alternative.

When Clarke and Kubrick were creating “2001,” they pronounced it “twenty-oh-one.” Shoulda kept it that way.Khjalmarj

Am I the only one here who is wondering what was the outcome of yesterday’s dinner out?

Not meant to take anything away from that WWII cohort— but generations generally rise to meet what’s demanded and expected of them (or fall to meet low expectations, as the case sometimes is). I kind of doubt that any remaining WWII veterans wish they had instead fought in the Civil War, for instance.