I got this e-mail today...How many remember this?
If you're 30 or older you'll think this is hilarious!!!
Maybe!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning....Uphill...barefoot...BOTH ways...Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass and we got "Licks" from the teachers and principals. Nowhere was safe , I even remember Grandma beating me!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or, you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen...forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
You've heard about pancakes that supposedly have a photo of Jesus or a leaf looking like a person before. So what makes this Chicken McNugget special? Well, it looks like George Washington! Someone put this up for auction on eBay and actually sold it for $8000. How crazy is that? Would you buy it if money were no object or do you think this is just stupid?
My friends consider me a joker to some extent and really like watching shows like Impractical Jokers. Some times I wonder if I would have the nerve to do some of the stuff these four guys do.
Have you ever wondered what feels like to fly? Well, with a wingsuit and a death wish or an infusion of risk taking genes, you can! I watched a special on HBO's Real Sports that had a segment on Jeb Corliss. Jeb talks about how you can travel 3 feet forward for every 1 foot you fall. Nice huh? You become one giant human flying squirrel. If you go to Jeb's site you'll see some cool videos of him "flying" around. I think it's more like controlled gliding but regardless it looks like a boatload of fun. All of the footage seems to be shot with GoPRO cameras - pretty cool.
If you frequent Starbucks then you've probably heard of the Starbucks Gold Card. The premier rewards card from Starbucks. In order to get one, you need to buy 30 drinks. Oh, wait. It's 30 visits! So if you decide to order a round for your entire office that counts as one (1). Yes, one! But then again, you might get looks if you did 30 different transactions from the long line waiting to order.
When you go out to eat with your significant other do you sit next to them or across facing them? This has been one of my unofficial observation items that I do when I'm out.
I sit next to my significant other but sometimes the waiter puts the menus or plates across and we get that weird look, like "hey there's a plate set up. Now I have to readjust." No biggie. One of my friends said, "just wait. You'll be sitting across from each other eventually and you won't even hardly talk while eating." 
There are games we play when we're children that we remember for our entire lives. We buy them for our families when we get older if we don't have the original any longer. Just seeing the childhood game can bring back memories and feelings that were going on at the time. Sometimes even feelings or scents.
If neither of you have an account when you get married and then decide that you'd like to have a presence what do you do? Some will create a joint account with a cheesy photo of them both in the profile picture to show, "Hey, this is our account." Or maybe a neutral photo of the kids or dog.
I play words with friends (WFW) for the fun of it and don't care if I win or lose. It's just interesting to me to see what kind of weird words come out of the game and the strategy. BTW I normally don't like playing games that reply on random chance or how the tiles are shuffled.
Here it is another year. I asked a friend if they had any resolutions and they said, "Why set yourself up for failure? What's yours?" I told them that I had one, "not to make one." Did i succeed?
We stopped into a Starbucks the other day and I saw this interesting can. The can was placed next to the table where you would toss the straw wrappers, or other trash. Obivously, customers thought it was a trash can and employees had to put signs up that said, "This is NOT a trash can." 
Jess and I are walking down the street in China Town in San Francisco and I spot the following license plate. I got my phone out and Jess knew exactly what I was going to do. The other night I saw one that said, "LiL Terd" but it was too dark to get a clear shot.
