Space Cadet

Ah, so there was a friend. Less confused than before now. :thinking:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUH9TDSO5es]YouTube- Spaced - What a Prick![/ame] What he said. :snobby:

Babylon 5! :dance: No, I grew my hair out as long as it would go when I was 5 because I wanted to be princess Leia. It looses alot of points because of the prequels, but there's still no contest, much as I love DS9 and the latest movie. Star Wars owns my brain. :freak:

:laugh3: Man, you really ought to look up some of his old cracked out threads from years ago. When people around here say we're relieved he's still alive there's a reason for that... First one I could find... http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36792 Only whiskey? I didn't know it was prone to causing split personalities. :P

Before you snark at me about government policy, why don't you take a moment to notice which government I'm actually familiar with. From what I've seen the trend is the same in Canada, yet the policies are different. I'm sure that policy level factors are playing a role, but there is a major generational shift starting to happen and it is both causing and being caused by what's happening in the corporate world. And frankly, I think that on a lot of points "millennials" have the right idea, at least more than their parents. I did not mean what I said as denigration, merely a statement of trends for better or worse. I'm from Atlantic Canada. The region has been economically depressed for most of my life. I live in a university town, so the only jobs around without massive credentials (and usually even with, because hundreds of graduates stick around without job opportunities every year) are minimum wage part-time customer service positions, and minimum wages are the lowest in the country. On the upside, the recession has barely had an effect at all here because things can't really get any worse. So no, I'm not qualified to comment on what's happening in Georgia as a result of US government policy or how the recession is playing out at the ground level there. But I can comment on how my peers view and experience life, jobs, and choices.

Interesting that the line starts to fall off the cliff in 2000. That's when the people who were born in '82 graduated. Many consider that to be the point where gen y/millenials/echo boomers started and gen X ended. (Based on personal experience I'd agree with that. I was born in '82 and I have more in common with someone 10 years younger than me than someone 2 years older. There's a big generation gap forming.) So basically, you have spoiled baby boomer kids who were brought up with hippie ideas of making your life matter for more than your job floating around. Their parents were often wealthy so they can still crash at home. They're highly educated so finding employment has become a bit of an arms race- now a master's degree will get you what a high school diploma once did because everyone has them. So lots of time in school. And why bother work in an entry level position when you're now so overqualified? Now dump them into the life-sucking go go go corporate culture that has developed over the last few decades which they definitely were not trained to survive, and throw a recession that is targeting the young in on top of it. Total lack of motivation or options for the motivated. Perfect storm.

Yeah, series one was the only one I still needed. Now I just have to wait for the specials boxset to go on sale some day. And thanks. I yoinked it from one of the resident ihasatardis loons... :nice: http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1978441.html#cutid1 Eh... I think the meme line is better. :smug2:

Oh my word. :freak: Just when I thought I couldn't possibly love him any more... :bomb: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oin0KNElSG0]YouTube- David Tennant - Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Fix You Coldplay[/ame] I haven't seen a celebrity go on about Coldplay like he did in...ever?

:thinking: :shrug: :freak: :escaping3:

No, Twitter was originally meant to be based around text messages, as I understand it, and around following whoever you want to without having to be mutual friends. It developed a very different culture, basically. Mainly because unlike Facebook it's searchable. Twitter only really makes sense if you have it on your phone, or you want to have access to the "hive mind".

:wtf: Hello... and your name is?

Argh. :bomb: Agreed. MSN is trying to be Facebook, Facebook is trying to become Twitter, and Twitter has decided that it isn't happy with itself so it keeps changing things that work just fine, even though they still haven't really dealt with the frequent fail whale yet. And in reality, the next new big site will always be the one the kids run away from their parents to.

Yes.

It's true. It's just like dodgeball. Sure you have all the big flashy warrior types beating the crap out of each other, but the people who always win are the quiet skinny kids with good reflexes that the jocks don't even notice. They hang around on the sidelines, stay out of the fights, and wait for all the competent people to eliminate each other before they start carefully picking off the other survivors like themselves. Sometimes it's an advantage when the popular people don't even know you exist. I say if all the thousands of registered lurkers were going to participate, the final ten would all be people with one post or less. And maybe Julie.

Yossarian doesn't answer my questions. :disappointed: :P Why, do you know who he is? :uhoh: No, I think he's just a garden variety troll, though perhaps slightly more competant at being amusing than some of the others. (Probably some bored kid from At Ease.)

I'm particularly fond of this one: Evidence of Everything Exploding Especially because of level 6, but mainly because it's just plain completely batshit insane. :mad:

Locke as Jesus. :rolleyes: (sorry) So does this mean that dead isn't dead? Yes, you're thinking of the right one. We finally saw Jacob, and then the not Locke had Ben stab him. That's what DVDs are for. :P We all collectively slept through it. :uhoh2:

I stream music on Grooveshark, and then if I really like it I'll either download single songs off of itunes or (preferably) buy the CD (and sometimes vinyl).

Umm... why would a 3-year-old have frequent existential crises? Any why would she still remember them 25 years later when most people can't seem to remember anything before they were 5?

^Nice. :cool: I got the first series for Christmas because amazon did that last fall. :D It's a pity they have to be so expensive usually.

That's kind of what I was thinking- pictures and memories of fun and laughter and beauty no matter how much sadness is mixed in could be better to leave behind than terrible ones. I guess it's ultimately something I would have to let them choose. Heh... sorry, if there was an easy answer I probably wouldn't be curious enough to ask it.

:hat2: Double post.

I'm going to be an electronics tech. Heh... and I studied english lit too. :nice: :\

I don't think they are. Yes, for most people who chose one of them the answer is a combination of both, but the idea is that some people would want time alone far away, while others would need to be surrounded by the intensely familiar. Run away vs. hide in your cave.

You know, I think I'm kind of with Reilly on this one... 20% means that for every 4 people that don't make it, one does. As long odds go, those aren't so bad. Significantly less than that and it would be one great big last party then I'm dragging my family to to finally see the Pacific for myself.