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Here is a fun site to check out This Day in Music Birthday #1. Just plug in your birthday and see what song was number one on the US, UK or other chart. It’s very interesting and revealing how the music and culture of the day brings back memories… [Also not just music, but media…
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I spend much of my time on evenings and weekends reading. The current book I am reading is “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires” by Tim Wu. This book is five years old, and Wu coined the term “Net Neutrality” A review of his book can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 and…
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1965… to 2015. It is when the first Generation X children reach age 50. I like the “Back to the Future” series. Marty McFly takes a DeLorean “time machine” to the Past to fix the Present, then in the second episode, he goes to the Future to fix the Future and finally goes to Past to fix…
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Gen X’ers are skeptics. Most the time it’s coincidental. Things are not the result of the Illuminati, Skull & Bones and many other famed secret societies. Our modern societies are struggling to stay relevant nonetheless many believe conspiracies exist to either game the system or eventually assume control by subversive…
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Time for some 80’s awareness! If you haven’t seen this yet, it is an instant classic. Kevin Bacon Explains the ’80s to Millennials: http://youtu.be/09q04Dlh7r8. You people will never know the comfort… Have we entered into the new Cold War??? Very possibly so. Crimea – taken without a fight. So will Ukraine become a throw back…
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I admit it, I like to win. Actually it’s more like I don’t like to lose. Losing is not fun. Winning is fun. Going undefeated is REALLY fun. I think this is part of being a Generation X’er – we are accustomed to winning. My siblings would agree, that I am wanting to win. Every…
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QUITE A YEAR – 1984. Like me, this was a real coming of age. Late teens, only worry was what are we doing Friday night and what’s my GPA going to look like this semester. 1984 is also a book authored by George Orwell. The book has taken on new meaning, now that we know…
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I am blessed to be a part of post-World War Western culture of what we call Generation X. I am a forerunner, early in the Generation. The Baby Boomer Generation was ending and we were born in an analog age with the digital age just beginning. It was a time of invention, newness and wide-eyed…
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GenX Turns Fifty 