current musical selection: Guns 'N Roses - Its So Easy

dammit its thursday allready.. i really dont know where time goes to. its one of the most frustrating things i think ive ever never paid attention to. well, that and my slash and burn approach to the english grammar. but really; the older i get, the faster time seems to move. dont rank me up with einstein on this, but it seems to be holding up. it really seems like just yesterday when i was writing in here; which was sunday in actuallity; then i get some irrate view-email about my lack of postings... fuckit. i realize ive missed another week. and its not that im doing anything to move the time, just that it goes by; even sitting on the deck the other day reading a book after dinner, i had no clue that 3 and a half hours had went by... hell even strenuous physical labor seems to be moving quickly [what else would you call mowing monster hills with a push mower in 100 degree + heat index weather].

im told thats one of the signs of getting old... noticing the accelerated passage of time... thank god i havent hit the second plateau: not remembering the accelerated passage of time. but lets face it, i am getting old. some days its worse than others... and it is an obtuse thought, to even consider, that im ending up more and more like my parents; but it really is happening. i even find the trend happening at school... more so lately. the longer i live in the residence halls, the younger everyone seems; and im not talking weeks/days/years; im feeling generational differences between the kids as they come in now, even from when i started, let alone where im at now. one of the things that really put it into perspective was the whole internet/computer revolution. any generation older than mine [being born lets say before 1977] has had to learn to accept computers in the home... or even computers as a general concept.. before that nothing much existed... but with my generation from roughly that time forward until approximately 1990ish.. we all grew up with the primitive versions of at-home-computing... im talking strait laced atari 2600's, magnavox pong, and the commodore 64. we have grown up knowing, and using computers.. but weve watched them evolve in our hands, technology has moved slow enough that we adapt on the fly, earlier generations are befuddled by it and often require a lag time before accepting changes... then comes about the new micro-generation as i refer to it... these kids, now about 13 to 8 years old have no idea where computers started from--- they have no recollection, and have likely seen nothing of what their generation-mates have... never have they had blisters on their hands from pointed, crappily designed 1 button joysticks, or been forced to operated 'digital' gaming devices by LEVERs [as with the atari's] and not with a mouse. the kids now really dont know anything except the internet and what thats brought about. i catch myself in wonder watching my younger brother grasp technology without the wonder that i did; its allready been taken for granted. really. in the space of a half generation or less, a massive tidal wave of tecnological revolution has been brought and digested. shit, kids wont even know what vcr's [let alone Beta format... or even old super-8 reel film w/o sound!] are in few years... if its not TiVO or doesnt have some 3 dollar 'digital' wording moniker, its ancient history. watching my brother use technology [he will start high school this year] is an interesting process... i mean god dammit, these kids now will be watching moies and things that are all digitally constructed and stored in school, but just a few short years ago when i was there, we didnt have anythign like it, really even on the horizon. i remember struggling to create a working knowledge of PC Dos [yeah.. before microsoft -=bm=-] then my attempts at true UNIX [before it needed fancyshit names like Lindows and Redhat] language... and kids of this age and younger now, are perplexed at how to operate computers without pictures, GUI's and mouse... not to mention the black screen with green text is considered "pretty dull man"; fuck even Their versions of Unix have to have pictures [reference to previous citation of Lindows and Redhat distros of linux, and similar unix cored OS with GUI--- post edit S.A.] really thats what makes me feel old.. im seeing the sweeping changes that are occuring within my own generation... im watching it divide off and segment out...

as ive told some friends many times in conversation, this over technologication of daily life is crippling the way traditional america operates... as i continued with that rant, "we always will need someone to scoop horeshit from stalls, we allways need people to be janitor and scrub walls; where do allow for them in this new era?; where do cultivate the workers we need for general, non-skilled, descently paid manual labor tasks? and is it necessary that we 1- train them in technology, and 2-infuse it into what they do? next thing we will have electronic mops that tell you when to wring them out, or something similar in its stupidity in techno-infusion."

god i am getting old... hopefully someday i wont be as so old to no longer instruct a snot-nosed-punk kid how to scrub a floor; but have his mop do it for me... anywho.. a simple programming note - i think for next time ill dip in to a little VIEWER MAIL!!!! anything stuipd youd like my 2 cents on, or just something youd like to hear about me; go ahead and drop away at: scott-alvarado@uiowa.edu ; and as always i look forward to your responses to what i say.. just remember dont expect to see it end up here.. this is my space, not yours... until then

ain't it fun~
s.