OMG that is EXACTLY what I have tried to convey to people I know, pretty much since 1999...I think my problem though was less-flattering terminology, i.e. "man-children still cherishing their Yoda Undaroos".

But yea, who among us didn't start concocting images in our heads of what the other movies would be like as soon as walking out of the theatre in '83? I think a lot of childhood imagination was pored into that 83-99 time period, and that late-20-early-30-something walked into the Phantom Menace expecting that same childlike wonder to wash over them, but y'know, they weren't actually kids anymore.

The later films had flaws, sure, but they weren't the high crime that many...many many many...fans made them out to be.

...who really kindof dug the 3 "new" Star Wars movies? Sure, there were parts that I didn't like...the stilted Christensen/Portman love dialog, the weakness of the Sifo-Dyas plot point, but few films are perfect.

The book itself is coming out now, is the point of the article.

I'd rather work on 40 yr old treasures there than windows98-era clunkers that we STILL have lying around here.

/tumbleweeds

I think the OP should take his family to a restaurant, buy a beer, hand it to one of the kids to drink, and report the results here.

Well, yes, but the issue with that analogy is that just connecting to the internet doesn't make you "you". When I connect at home, I'm not browsing websites as my actual, or any, self; I will go identify (i.e. login) as "me" to Facebook, then llogout. Go next to Google+, then logout. Come to /. then logout.

Being on the internet now is to be a series of disconnected selves as you join and leave insular virtual universes. IMO that is inherently *anti*-social. I envision a decentralized social network as having a singular virtual self.

I'd dump it today if it wasn't for sports, can't get by without the Sox, Bruins, Celtics.

Bullshit. If you're going to do the intentional-typo kind of post, you do it with multiple and obvious words, not 1. This was a legitimate crow-eating moment.

A whatnow?

Like Xerox?

Like Photoshop?

I see people come in to the office all the time wanting to get their toys on the network. I tell them "come back with something that doesn't' have a picture of a piece of fruit on it".

I never would have gone for a sit-in-a-call-center position myself. My degree form one of those cozy New England liberal arts universities was a BA in Information Technology. Some programming, some networking, some MIS, and so on, a grab-bag. I do tech support for a public K-12 school system, and I think its kinda fun.

In the end, find something to do that you simply enjoy. All else will flow from there.

Employers want well-rounded individuals, not button-pushing, narrowly-focused sheep. Your resume will sink like a stone on any competent HR manager's desk.

I don't read comic books...oh, excuse me..."graphic novels"....and what I know of Green Lantern is just from the old Superfriends cartoons of the 70's/80's.

For what it was, a fluff early-summer action movie, it was entertaining. standard comic plot devices...outsider/loner with daddy issues, a girl that is also desired by the nerds soon-to-be-supervillian friend, etc...etc...aside. Kindof a weak fight at the end...flinging prlalax-whatever into the sun just didn't feel satisfying...but you don't go to summer movies expecting Oscar material.