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My grandmother and her family

By ~LS~ On November 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In Generations, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Family, Generations

Generation Y documents everything about itself. Facebook, youtube, myspace, flickr, the repositories of that generation are endless. My generation has some documentation; we’ve got home movies, videos, pictures, but nothing close to what the children of Gen Y will have as they age. Most people of my generation are lucky if they know anything about more than their grandparents and maybe their great grandparents. My family did a poor job of documenting us. I have very few pictures of myself as a child growing up. I have very few pictures of my parents at any age. I have almost no pictures of my grandparents. There were no home movies or videos. Compared to most families, there is not much of Willow either.

I got in the mail today from my mother a handful of pictures of my grandmother. I don’t know anyone in the pictures other than her. I can [...]

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Daniel Striped Tiger

By ~LS~ On September 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pop Culture, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Generations, Television

Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood has always been special to me. As a kid I watched it all the time. When the show moved to PBS, which is when I was introduced to it, I was older than the target audience, but I loved it anyway. I started watching it again after I went through treatment for alcoholism and drug abuse. People in AA meetings encouraged it because the show promotes all kinds of affirming, feel-good life lessons that alcoholics need to hear and practice. I continued to watch it irregularly until it was taken off the air a few years ago. It always made me feel better regardless of what was going on in my life.

My all-time favorite character on Mr. Rogers is Daniel Striped Tiger. It still amazes me that Rogers voiced both the shy, shy Daniel and the pompous King Friday. One thing I really like [...]

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Why I’m retro (and not in a good way)

By ~LS~ On May 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pop Culture, The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Age, Consumption, Geek, Generations, Pop Culture, Silliness

1.I still play on text-based games (muds, mux, etc.). Most of the gaming world has moved onto MMORPGs.

2. My cellphone is the one they sell to senior citizens. Big digit buttons, no keyboard for texting. I don’t text. I don’t surf. I don’t even download ringtones. In fact, I don’t even keep my cellphone on. I just turn it on to call out.

3. Until my new computer this week, I didn’t have the capacity to play DVDs on my computer.

4. Until this week, I was using html frames instead of CSS for my website.

5. I would rather play D&D 3.5 than move to 4.0. Partly because I don’t like 4.0 and partly because I just don’t want to bother to learn a new system.

6. Teaching public speaking. I have long thought that public speaking organized around the standard informative, commemorative, and persuasive schtick was utterly [...]

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Students’ sense of entitlement

By ~LS~ On November 10, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Generations, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Pedagogy

An article about contemporary students’ sense of entitlement is all over the Canadian papers today. It cites a UC Irvine study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The article discusses how entitled today’s students feel. Here are some stats from the article:

The study asked approximately 400 undergraduates aged 18 to 25 whether they agreed with these statements:

If I have explained to my professor that I am trying hard, I think he/she should give me some consideration with respect to my course grade – 66.2 per cent agree
If I have completed most of the reading for a class, I deserve a B in that course – 40.7 per cent
If I have attended most of the classes for a course, I deserve at least a grade of B – 34.1 per cent
Teachers often give me lower grades than I deserve on [...]

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Obama and Generation Jones

By ~LS~ On November 8, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Generations, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Generations, Obama, Politics

So, I’ve never heard of Generation Jones — the generation between the Boomers and Gen X — until recently. Generation Jones is presumably named such because they (we) are a generation of Jonesers. We yearn for things. This, I identify with. We were too young to participate in the summer of love, the Vietnam War, or any of the defining events of the Baby Boom generation.

I’m not sure how I feel about the very existence of a Generation Jones. I’ve identified as a Gen Xer ever since I read the book by Douglas Copeland. Some accounts of generations have me dated as a Boomer, but that’s hardly true for me. I clearly don’t identify with my mother, who is clearly a Boomer. For some people, the defining character of Gen X is its pessimism, something I most certainly relate to. Douglas Copeland talks about the pessimism born of [...]

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Twilight

By ~LS~ On October 24, 2008 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Age, Geek, Generations, Movies, Music, Pop Culture

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