The most richly satisfying and rewarding experience I'll ever have in this life..

[Guest]

... will be taking a hammer and smashing this goddamned motherfucking cell phone into billions and billions of microscopic particles.  So help me God.

[Mister Obvious]

Translation: I’m an old dude and can’t use a smartphone effectively...

[Guest]

Meh, shove it up your ass.

One thing I can do effectively, having 20 years of professional experience, is write USABLE software. Still waiting to see a smarmy millennial hipster douche pull that one off.

[Mister Obvious]

Yeah it’s gone down the drain, people don’t truly learn to code anymore because of all the training wheels.

[Guest]

The problem is, they do learn to "code." They're all about "coding." Look at me, I'm a coder! Wheeee!!!

Unfortunately, sitting at a keyboard and typing code is only about 10% of what software engineering entails. Any goddamned ape in a zoo can sling fucking code.

[Guest]

Even more unfortunate for the millennials is their scorn for "useless" old men. I don't think they have any idea how fucked they're going to be when all of that knowledge dies. Them "smart" phones aren't going to be worth dogshit when the system breaks down and society is full of insolent, incurious smirking scofflaws who are too dumbed down to fix it. Enjoy it while it lasts, kids. Tee hee!

[Mister Obvious]

I’m trolling you with the old man shit...

You know I love old men.

And if you don’t know that then you’re an idiot.

[Guest]

I may be an idiot anyway. My generation failed to pass on the last remaining shreds of cultural literacy we managed to gather from our forebears. It was disappearing fast when I was in high school, and it'll be gone forever in another 20 years. Future generations may have to start all over from the mesolithic period after the medieval system of the next century collapses. Literally have to learn how to produce their own food and shit.

At any rate the condition of the millennials now is definitely the fault of the parents of my generation. It would be easy to absolve myself by saying I didn't play a direct role in the decline because I didn't have kids myself, but maybe things would've turned out differently if I and other conscientious people had refused to let ourselves be taxed to support idiot breeders and used the money where it would've done society some good.

[Guest]

Well, what do ya know? I made a WiFi hotspot on my phone, now I can use my laptop. About time that fucking phone did something worthwhile.

[redsalmon]

Holy shit man, I had a nightmare that my phone had broken in half, I wanted to record a plane that was flying low and when I looked at my phone it was broken in two!!!

run for the hills mothafucka!!!

the tornados are coming too!!! 
run!!!

[user94]

... will be taking a hammer and smashing this goddamned motherfucking cell phone into billions and billions of microscopic particles.  So help me God.

[user94]

I’m trolling you with the old man shit...

You know I love old men.

And if you don’t know that then you’re an idiot.

You love only yourself. Which is not such a bad thing really.

[Guest]

It made itself useful in the nick of time. Portable WiFi saved it from the bin. lol

[Guest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYbmz489CAo

the womb

[Guest]

I love my Italian hammock chairs.

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[anscochrome]

Even more unfortunate for the millennials is their scorn for "useless" old men.  I don't think they have any idea how fucked they're going to be when all of that knowledge dies. Them "smart" phones aren't going to be worth dogshit when the system breaks down and society is full of insolent, incurious smirking scofflaws who are too dumbed down to fix it. Enjoy it while it lasts, kids. Tee hee!

Film photography is making a comeback. They need old men like me to show them how to effectively use it, before all my knowledge and experience dies with me. :)

[Mister Obvious]

old men like me

*ears perk up*

How YOU doin’!?

[anscochrome]

*ears perk up*

How YOU doin’!?

59 and counting............... :)

[Guest]

I don't believe film photography will make a long-lasting comeback. Like most "retro" crazes, there'll be a brief resurgence of interest, then everyone will get bored with it and go back to making duck-faced selfies on their cellphones.

What I'm talking about is the way today's IT workers have a very superficial understanding of the underlying technologies, if any at all. Most self-styled "engineers" I know don't have the first clue about electronics. What's more, they display a complete lack of curiosity about what makes things tick. The fundamental concepts that today's digital technology is built upon are still the same as 30 years ago. It hasn't gone away, and it hasn't been replaced, as many people imagine. It has merely been abstracted out of conscious awareness. It's still there, and it will need to be maintained for as long as high-tech civilization endures. The knowledge necessary to peel back the layers of abstraction and get at root causes has to be preserved, or they'll eventually encounter problems nobody remembers how to solve.

[Mister Obvious]

59 and counting............... :)

That’s wonderful.