"Generation X+1?" written by Jim on estrip.org

10/11/07 11:17 - 59ºF - ID#41605

Generation X+1?

I was born in 1979, which technically is the last year of Generation X. Or, sometimes, I'm under the 'MTV Generation' classification or even say I'm one of the earliest in Generation Y. I don't feel like I belong to any of those. My cohort is adrift in time and popular conception.

This is surely a troubling issue, does anyone know any demographically inclined therapists who could help me navigate through this distress?

james writes at 08:26:26 10/12/07 - Comment #26194: I told the same thing to my parole officer Lauren!

I mean, I have murdered but that doesn't make me a murderer.

jim writes at 11:26:51 10/12/07 - Comment #26170: Interesting that you'd categorize me as one who needs externally imposed categories, Lauren, thus giving me exactly what I desire.

lauren writes at 11:21:00 10/12/07 - Comment #26168: Identities are fluid and unstable my friend. Do we ever fit neatly into any of these fairly arbitrary categories? And what good does it do us if we do?

museumchick writes at 10:57:54 10/12/07 - Comment #26162: I was born in 1982- I never really felt like I belonged to a generation. I'm old enough to remember the Berlin Wall coming down, but I don't think I'm really in the Gen X generation mindset.

jim writes at 10:48:21 10/12/07 - Comment #26161: My parents were baby boomers who had us later on, around the time the very earliest of Gen X were starting to have kids.

I remember reading articles about all the 20-somethings who were slackers in Gen X when I was still a Sophomore in high school - definitely felt like they were talking about someone else. And I totally missed out on caring about Nirvana or any other typical cultural keystones from that generation.

It's ironic that the 'Slacker Generation' has somehow managed to create so many new businesses and to be so economically focused. For all that they were supposed to be the end of civilization and a disgrace, they sure have turned out to be Good Little Citizens.

The Baby Boomers scared their parents with Rock and Roll, and the Slackers scared their parents with computer games. But it turns out you can get a lot more done with a mouse or joystick then you can with a joint and an LP.

vincent writes at 12:55:20 10/12/07 - Comment #26153: The whole late 70's is a blur when you're figuring that out in some aspects. To be honest the year 1980 only comes from the explosion of the # of births pertaining to the "echo boom" of baby boomers having kids late in life.

I figure the people born in the mid to late 70's were luck to see cool shit and also watch things end. The thing that keeps "us" form being relevant is that the mid 1970's were the period of the least amount of births in the last 50 years.

I'm just lucky to kinda get away with making myself younger than I am. To be honest I think that although fundamentally people my real age are more interesting, insightful and enlightened at the same time for the most part collectively we have come up short in the grand scheme of things.

In some crazy ways I wish I was 21 again today. The challenges with what is going on in the world and the resources that are available make it very exciting. So in some ways I am envious while at the opposite end I do shake my head at times. For example every thinks they're hot daddy's little girl from Clarance or the O.P. thinking that they're a Vally Girl CelebuTARD speaking in that high pitched squeal sqeek.....ect...../RANT

tinypliny writes at 12:36:52 10/12/07 - Comment #26152: Blimey What a tongue twister for those born in 2000. The Z generation.

drew writes at 12:31:45 10/12/07 - Comment #26151: I was born in 1978, I feel your pain. I identify with X a lot more than Y, but sometimes people don't consider me an X by year of birth.

tinypliny writes at 12:27:08 10/12/07 - Comment #26148: I am not a demographically inclined therapist (and I am not sure there is a genuine one around a 200 mile radius). However, I have a way through the distress. It has worked for me all the time.

I feel like I don't belong to any generation at all and I am quite happy with it. I don't want to belong. I am very glad to have the mental liberty to skippety-hop from generation to generation. The generational switch is within easy reach. Don't deny and dissove your self.

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10/11/07 05:11 - 59ºF - ID#41602

E:Strip Dinner

Thank you all for coming!! 17 People I believe.

Sorry about the group shots, the red ceiling sort of screwed up my attempts with the flash :( I should have double checked the camera before I stopped taking photos.

Tried to doctor up the group shots a bit:

And (e:james) was being himself:

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10/10/07 11:47 - 51ºF - ID#41585

Reign of Terror

To celebrate my new title, I've picked out an appropriate song.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

10/10/07 04:28 - 57ºF - ID#41577

Estrip Pizza and Wings Night!

Tonight is the night!

There's room for last minute stragglers if you're suddenly available.

Check out the details here.

JJ's Casa-di-Pizza on Elmwood at 7pm.

See you there!

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Category: life

10/09/07 05:46 - 69ºF - ID#41563

Vacation

I took my first day off in forever on Monday. I think it might have been the first day in 6 months that I didn't do any work. It was really nice, so thank you James, Paul, Matt, and Terry!

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10/07/07 07:45 - 72ºF - ID#41544

E:Strip Dinner

Welcome to my daily reminder to sign up for the (e:strip) dinner, to be held on Wednesday, October 10th, at 7pm. Click this link to find out more or to sign up if you're interested.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: photos

10/07/07 12:43 - 61ºF - ID#41532

Photo Booth

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Category: buffalo

10/07/07 11:37 - 61ºF - ID#41529

Marcella's Underwear Contest

The contestants:

Who I voted for:

These two won, a tie, and they went and danced on a pole together afterwards.

I tried to wipe the lens of the camera phone off, but it must have still been a little dirty.

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Category: politics

10/04/07 04:58 - 78ºF - ID#41494

Politics

Well I normally hate talking about politics on estrip, but this one is too funny:

An elephant with a 'wide stance' in Minneapolis. Nice. (This is the actual GOP logo for their convention)

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Category: computers

10/02/07 10:01 - 68ºF - ID#41467

Backup Hard Drives

OK, so this is getting ridiculous.

I have one external backup drive for my laptop, one for (e:james)' desktop, and now two more on the way to attach to the network for photo storage (100+gb so far). No more room on my laptop for them all.

I'm going to need to buy a house soon just to install a datacenter in the basement, and I don't think we'll need to worry about the house being cold this winter with all these electronics going. We have like four 8-outlet power strips in room with our computers.

Or maybe just get one of these...

tinypliny writes at 01:36:21 10/06/07 - Comment #25832: That reminds me that one of these days my laptop is going to die on me and I am going to be a total wreck because I am just too lazy to back-up anything.

metalpeter writes at 06:45:06 10/04/07 - Comment #25770: I take pictures on my digital camera and store them on CD but I really do need to back them up other then on the computer. But I print all of mine out that is what photo albums are for. The thing is they are esaier to view in albums then on a computer. I really need to figure out how to get the ones on floppy's on a disc and then copy that disc.

jim writes at 10:41:16 10/03/07 - Comment #25719: Yikes!

Jenks that is no good :)

I can't believe that anyone uses those disks anymore. I've had to try a few times in the last year, and the disks or drives are invariably dead.

jenks writes at 10:35:48 10/03/07 - Comment #25718: ok, this will make you guys cringe.
At work we keep a list of all the patients we are taking care of. It's a dinky little excel file. But it is full of all sorts of private info, so it's "protected information" blah blah.

But there is no place we can store this file, that everyone has access to it. And they have just banned flash drives.

So we have been storing it on a FLOPPY DISK. The SAME floppy disk. For TWO YEARS now. With NO backup copy. And I am the only one that seems remotely concerned by this.

I didn't know computers even HAVE A: drives anymore!

dcoffee writes at 08:06:41 10/03/07 - Comment #25710: Yea, I know the feeling. I have my photos on DVD and hard drives. But I don't trust computers at all. We should print more of our favorite photos. I know us digital photographers don't print much, we post things online, email stuff to friends, group it into folders, but printing at a photo lab? I went about 3 years without adding a single photo to a photo album, but it's so rewarding when you do. I admit it takes a bit of time, and I haven't printed anything for myself in at least 6 months. But I feel like prints, are a real backup.

jim writes at 07:50:59 10/03/07 - Comment #25707: I've got remote offline storage covered, but this is all about making sure I've got two copies of everything locally too.

I'm super paranoid about backups, don't worry about me :)

metalpeter writes at 07:46:50 10/03/07 - Comment #25703: Seriously I noticed you didn't mention CDs or DVDs. I will admit that one little scratch can mess them up but that would give you another way of storing pictures and video and with the pictures then if you have a DVD player that would be another way to view them. Backing things up is really important and a lot of people forget to do and then when they lose stuff it is gone and they can't get it back.