CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man 339
So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years. Now, it's payback time. That's right, our very own CmdrTaco is turning 30 today. I highly encourage you to drop him an e-mail at (remove the spam parts) maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org. And of course, birthday presents of single malt scotch can be sent c/o of me. I'll...uh...make sure he gets them.
Payback Time, I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm, seems Taco was right.
Birthday presents of single malt scotch can be sent c/o of me. I'll...uh...make sure he gets them.
Ok. But are you sure this label is going to work?
Re:Payback Time, I guess (Score:2)
Oh, and OpenBoot still ru1ez!!!
Re:Payback Time, I guess (Score:3, Funny)
wha? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wha? (Score:2)
Re:wha? (Score:5, Funny)
all we need is his mother's maiden name and his SSN
and we could all be CmdrTaco....for at least a day.
Re:wha? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wha? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wha? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wha? (Score:3, Funny)
Rusty? Is that you?
Oy vey. (Score:5, Funny)
How long does it take to proofread a ~30 word post?
Re:Oy vey. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oy vey. (Score:2)
Re:Oy vey. (Score:2)
Re:Oy vey. (Score:2)
He has to do it twice.
happy birthday and a hip hip! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:happy birthday and a hip hip! (Score:2)
Re:happy birthday and a hip hip! (Score:2)
Re:happy birthday and a hip hip! (Score:2)
Just kidding, we all love you cmdrtaco <3<3<3 (there are two ways of interpretting this, I bet you all take the dirty one)
30 is old? (Score:5, Funny)
Listen Sonny, you've got no idea what old is! Why, when I first learned to program, I had to carry my punch cards in a paper bag through the snow, on foot, 10 miles, uphill, in both directions! We didn't have these fancy keyboards -- we had to use a telegraph key. Monitors! Feh! We had to use an Etch-a-Sketch!
Anyway, Happy Brithday.
Re:30 is old? (Score:2)
Re:30 is old? (Score:5, Funny)
J
Re:30 is old? (Score:2)
Re:30 is old? (Score:2)
Re:30 is old? (Score:3, Funny)
Happy Birthday, Rob! From someone far older than you!
Re:30 is old? (Score:5, Insightful)
Terribly ob quote (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Is your palm blinking red, Taco? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is your palm blinking red, Taco? (Score:2)
Does the blinking amber light on a LifeDrive count? :-)
OK, I'll quit now.
Re:Is your palm blinking red, Taco? (Score:2)
Jessica 6: A friend of mine went on carousel. Now he's gone.
Logan 5: Yes, well, I'm sure he was renewed.
Jessica 6: He was killed.
Logan 5: Killed? Why do you use that word?
Jessica 6: Isn't that what you do? Kill?
Logan 5: I've never killed anyone in my life. Sandman terminate runners. What's your name?
Jessica 6: Jessica.
Logan 5: You're sad enough. You're beautiful. Let's have sex.
The million dollar question is: Do you think the scriptwriters were actually PAID for this crap?
Re:Is your palm blinking red, Taco? (Score:2)
Like I always say, you just can't write dialogue like that;-)
Re:Hehe (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hehe (Score:3, Interesting)
Excellent movie. Ever see any of the short-lived TV series? I did. Yup, I'm that old. Ah well.
Anyways, for extra credit, rent another film from the same era: Silent Running. [imdb.com]
Re:Is your palm blinking red, Taco? (Score:2, Informative)
Aaron
Re:Is your palm blinking red, Taco? (Score:2)
Talk about showing your age! I wonder if a 30 year old will understand a reference to an obscure, 1976 sci fi flick (and definitely one of Farrah Fawcett's finest)? Sanctuary! Run to Sanctuary!
Where the above reference came from [imdb.com].30 is easy ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:30 is easy ... (Score:2)
Re:30 is easy ... (Score:5, Funny)
Why put anti-SPAM measures in the email address?? (Score:3, Insightful)
not permanently flooded. (Score:2)
Congratulations! (Score:2)
I could send him wiskey... (Score:2)
Nice.... (Score:5, Funny)
And 30 feels the same as 29 I assume....?
beedogs (Score:2)
You lucky bum (Score:5, Funny)
It is all downhill from here by the way. At least until you hit 40, when it is more of a "plunging off a cliff" aging process; just think of your 30s as the hill before the plunge. I can see the edge of the cliff already.....
Re:You lucky bum (Score:3)
Re:You lucky bum (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You lucky bum (Score:5, Insightful)
Nonsense, life doesn't even begin until 40, at least if you've done it right.
The fastest average "nonstop" (the clock never stopped) speed by bicycle across America, 15.3 mph, was set by a 43 year old nuclear engineer.
A 25 mile time trialist who competed in the American national championships from his teens into his eighties reported ( and could back it up with race results) that every year he could get stronger and faster . . . until he hit 65, at which point he started losing about a minute a year no matter how he trained.
Bear in mind that even ten years after "plunging over the cliff" of 65 he was still healthier, stronger and faster than most 20 year olds.
If you "plunge over the cliff" at 30 or 40 I'm afraid it ain't age that's done it. You have, very simply, "let yourself go."
50 is the new 30.
KFG
Re:You lucky bum (Score:2)
30s and 40s are better than 20s (Score:5, Insightful)
Nonsense, life doesn't even begin until 40, at least if you've done it right.
I'm only 35 now (will be 36 this summer) but already I'm starting to believe kfg's assessment. All my life, I've heard this crap about how the 20s are the best years of your life and 40 is when everything goes to hell. I now believe that's a bunch of crap. Actually, I believe that common perception is probably true for common people. For geeks like us, I think the 30s and 40s are much better than our 20s.
Maybe my experience was a little more extreme than most people's since my 20s were dominated with grad school in an institute with a terrible male-female ratio, but I look back on my 20s and think of them as years where I was busy building up my capabilities. My ability to take care of myself. My ability to cook things other than spagetti and ramen noodles. My ability to prove myself capable of independent, in-depth research. All along I thought I knew what I was going to do when I finished my dissertation (become a professor) but that turned out not to be correct at all.
Now midway through my 30s, I've got a much stronger sense of who I truly am and what my strengths are. I'm still struggling to develop new capabilities and broaden my horizon, but I'm starting to take a little more time to appreciate what I've built so far. Financial decisions that I made back in my 20s because I thought they were the right thing to do are starting to pay off for me now. I'm still very busy but I'm starting to see things in a broader scope than I did when I was so fixated on one or two things in my 20s.
I imagine that my 40s is when I'll truly be content. By then, I imagine I'll be pretty damn comfortable with the person I turned out to be. I'll be able to see how everything fits together in my life much better.
People think of 40s as "over the hill" largely because of physical issues. Yeah, perhaps its true that if you don't take care of yourself that age will start to catch up with you then. But if you eat right and exercise, I think your 40s can be some of your best active years. You shouldn't still be putting in 60-hour weeks in your 40s so you'll have more time for exercising, spending time with the family, and just plan enjoying life. Regarding sports, you might have to take a few more days of layoff between workouts or slow down a bit on the court, but you will find that your increased understanding of tactics, planning, and strategy will make up for it. Yes, even for stuff like weight-training. You'll start to realize that going into the gym 4-6 days a week and blasting your muscles to failure every time in a pathetic attempt to put a half-inch on your arms in time for summer just isn't the smartest approach.
Like kfg says, your 40s should be the best years of your life if you've done it right (e.g., made careful financial decisions, ate healthy, gotten plenty of non-destructive exercise, not completely dedicated yourself to your job). That's how I see it anyhow.
GMD
Re:30s and 40s are better than 20s (Score:3, Interesting)
The upside of 40's: you're comfy, you're kinda settled, you're kinda content in a Maslow's Hierarchy kinda way.
The downside: You have the $$$ and the desire to do the Geek Projects you've always wanted (damn you "Make" magazine), but you don't have the time. Family, friends, a fuller life all conspire to get in your way.
Life is great at 40 - but you'll need naps. Really.
Re:You lucky bum (Score:4, Interesting)
I thought I was in pretty good shape for a 34 year old (at the time). My troop of riders went to Long Island to ride our bikes with some friends of friends. There was this one guy, we called him "Sarge," that was 62 or 63 y.o. He was the fastest thing on two wheels I ever saw (besides the amateur MTB Racers, that is). He whooped the pants off of us youngins.
So, I'd say, the parent post hangs true. I've experienced it (from the 'younger' point of view). Kind of puts some things into perspective.
The only problem with being in my fifties (Score:3, Insightful)
is that we all work in such an ageist occupation. 30+ years at the coalface means nothing nowadays. Oh, yes, and I can't make love quite as often as I used to!
Ob. Quote (Score:4, Funny)
When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do.
Your twenties are a blur.
Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?"
Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother.
Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery.
Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway.
Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?"
By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama.
Any questions?
Re:You lucky bum (Score:2)
Just don't get hit by a bus until then and most of us have a good shot at becoming biologically then non-biologically immortal (or none of do [gmu.edu]).
The bumps (Score:2)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Happy Birthday! (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course, you're still both just rotten kids to all of us 40 somethings!
Happy and Sad (Score:5, Funny)
As a guy many years older than him, it is depressing to see my hardworked, carefully thought-out story submissions heartlessly rejected on a regular basis by a bunch of barely 30-year old millionaire kids.
But that is the way of things I guess.
Dupes (Score:5, Funny)
Man, he's /still/ a young punk. (Score:2)
Happy B'day!!! ZOMG!!! (Score:4, Funny)
24 hours too late (Score:5, Funny)
Re:24 hours too late (Score:5, Funny)
CmdrAncient (Score:2)
Spam-proofed (Score:3, Interesting)
Argh, I'm just not figuring this out. I've got the malda part, but am having trouble with the last part. I keep getting "slashdot.org" but I've never heard of that before. This SPAM stuff just confuses me.
On a serious note, are spammers really thwarted by foobar_AT_barbaz.com (apologies to the person with that e-mail address) and foobarNOSPAM@NOSPAMbarbaz.com? I mean, really, s/_AT_/@ isn't exactly rocket science.
SPAM filtered e-mail (Score:2)
Accolades... (Score:2, Funny)
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Taco,
Happy Birthday to you
Re:Accolades... (Score:5, Funny)
Little does Hemo know (Score:3, Insightful)
Wait a minute, that's not right...
Only 30??!! (Score:3, Funny)
Happpy Birthday to US! (Score:2)
Happy Birthday CmdrTaco!
No Dupe, please (Score:2)
Email keeps getting rejected? (Score:5, Funny)
In honour of this gracious occasion, I will prepare the following:
SPAM(TM) Tacos [hormel.com]
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 SPAM® Classic (12-ounce) can cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 12 small new potatoes sliced 1/8-inch thick
- 1 Anaheim chile chopped
- 8 corn taco shells
- 2 cups torn romaine lettuce
- shredded cheddar cheese
- chopped tomato
- sour cream
- salsa
- standard keyboard & internet connection
Directions
In skillet over medium heat, combine SPAM®, potatoes, and chile. Cover. Cook 15 to 20 minutes, turning occasionally, until potatoes are tender. Fill each taco shell with about 1/4 cup SPAM(TM) mixture and 1/4 cup lettuce. Top with cheese, tomato, sour cream, and salsa. Eat while posting, emailing, or whatever!
On that note... (Score:2)
They Might be Giants (Score:2)
And now he's even older.
And now he's even older.
And now he's even older still...
Only 30? (Score:2)
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to express my dearest congratulations for our founder, CmdrTaco.
(And now that it's been said...
I'm older than Taco!! Yay!!!!!
)
*ahem ahem*
(puts on tuxedo)
Thank you very much for allowing me to contribute. Have a nice day.
30 today?...you're lucky- Im approaching 60..... (Score:2)
Re:30 today?...you're lucky- Im approaching 60.... (Score:2)
OLD MAN! (Score:2)
(old man mubling)
(tough guy) If that is the case, you must be stopped!
(old man) (mumbles some more)
*lightning*
You may mod this OT, but those of us over 30 know EXACTLY what I'm talking about...
Bah (Score:2)
(er wait, I'm over 30...)
Never trust anyone over 40!
(Uh oh, I'm 41...)
Never trust anyone over 50! Those bastards always keepin' us down! Down with The Man! I'm keepin' it real.
Uh... (Score:2)
Happy b-day Rob (Score:2)
Happy birthday, Rob
How about some Cola (Score:2, Interesting)
Happy Birthday Taco (Score:2)
Happy Birthday Cmdr. I didn't get you anything, but if you want you can go watch duckpins [cmdrtaco.net].
You know, turning 30 wasn't that bad for me... (Score:2)
But that water has long since been under the bridge.
Shameful, really. (Score:4, Funny)
Happy birthday Rob, benevolent overlord with snazzy first name!
Happy Birthday Sir! (Score:3, Interesting)
May you enjoy life as much as Ollie.
May you prosper as well as Spock.
May you never give a moose FARQs.
The drugs of my youth in the "1960s".
Compare poorly with my drugs today.
You got some great drugs to look
forward to when you get to your
sextities as your body, mind and
spirit slip into "dang dumb ass",
why did I pass that up.
Yep, you always regret more what you
passed up, then what you fucked up.
Then the drugs really help you forget.
Well, I guess you best get on with
your life. By the time you get to 137yo
What was I saying
> You chose well, so choose well.
J.D.10101
30 (Score:3, Funny)
I got married at 30 also.
Now I'm 32 and I've been married 357 years.
Happy B-Day M8! (Score:3, Funny)
OOG PASSING OUT AT YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY WHEN HE SEES
Nataly Portman naked and petrified pouring hot grits down your pants, she knows that
All your base are belong to us!
So again, Happy Birthday and may you always get the
Frist Psit.
Re:Happy Birthday (Score:4, Funny)
what, aged 30? geez, I hadn't even made half my mistakes by then. Apart from the biggie - getting married
This is your wife. (Score:3, Funny)
Bastard.
Re:Happy Birthday (Score:2)
Re:Happy Birthday (Score:3, Funny)
And More people posting about dupes leads to suffering...
Re:Run, Runner!!! (Score:2)
Re:wow (Score:2)
Re:CMDR TACO IS 30? SCIENCE IS GREAT! (Score:2)
Re:Ah... 30... (Score:2)
However, Logan's Run (as already mentioned) is more appropriate on a 30th.
Re:Who fucking cares? (Score:4, Insightful)