articles saying how special Y is and how they need to be managed with kid gloves

To which I say, what-the-fuck-ever, ya know? Seriously. X'ers grew up SURROUNDED by MTV and hair bands. I don't see anyone offering me a good grade in my college classes or a big fat raise because I owned a Warrant album.

Then again, my boss is Gen Y and probably has never *heard* of Warrant.

I was on CompuServe briefly in '94. It was awesome. None of my friends had email back then, but CompuServe would let you send email to snailmail addresses. So if I needed to send a letter to friends in San Francisco from Minneapolis, I'd write a letter on CompuServe and they'd print and mail it in San Francisco so it would get there the next day.

so sleepy. too much good food. last night my dad made risotto. I bet no one else's dad did that.

t lapses into food coma

This is awesome. And trippy. [link] You watch this weird video for a minute and then you end up hallucinating for a 10 or 20 seconds.

I first used the Internet (the actual capital-I Internet) in 1987.

I am going to try my damndest to not let Emeline have.

Good luck. You think you have avoided the dreaded thong until your child goes shopping on her own and forgets to move her laundry and this piece of string falls on the floor and then you realize it is not just a piece of string.

Whoah. I went to tommyrot's link, and then looked at the patterned fabric on my wall, and it was like it was moooooooving. Duuuuuuude.

I tried to watch tommyrot's link, but I don't have that much uninturrupeted time all at once.

I tried to watch tommyrot's link, but I don't have that much uninturrupeted time all at once.

Yeah. Plus it gives you the munchies.

I was born in 1961 and don't feel any connection to Boomers.

1962 here. I've always been told I'm a Boomer (1946-1964), but I never felt like it. I was also part of "the last big high school class." Which meant the schools were too small for us, but the school board wouldn't do anything because the problem would solve itself when we left.