| From: | David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> |
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| Subject: | Re: Old Age Runners (Was: Re: Sex & the |
| Date: | Thu, 7 May 1998 11:53:40 -0600 |
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/ >You know what the sad thing is? There are plenty of people on this list
/ >who simply have no recollection of living like that, who only know about
/ >the Cold War from books and school. Some of us geezers actually grew up
/ >with the spectre of the Red Menance and Global Thermonuclear War.
Oh my god. I'm old enough to experience a generation gape <shock>.
/ Heh - I remember watching WarGames for the first time. Back then
/ my computer was a C64 and I was still disgusted by how *stupid*
/ the movie was.
The computers that are represented in movies become obsolete in the
year it takes to edit the movie. I saw My Best Friend's Wedding
recently and cringed when an email program that was used looked out
of place.
<grin> It used to be that people would pick up on the fact that the
character was driving last year's car, or wearing last years
fashion. Now we pick up on the fact that a character is using last
year's computer.
Here's a fun run. The runners are hired by a movie producer to steal
the latest in home computer technology from Fuchi so that a scene in
his movie won't be out of place when the movie is actually shown.
-David
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"Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines."
- Sir William Hamilton
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