Growing older in Austin

This blog entry is intended for those whose level of maturity qualifies them to relate.

1960:     Long hair
2011:     Longing for hair

1960:     KEG
2011:     EKG

1960:     Acid rock
2011:     Acid reflux

1960:     Moving to California because it's cool
2011:     Moving to Arizona because it's warm

1960:     Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2011:     Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1960:     Seeds and stems
2011:     Roughage

1960:     Hoping for a BMW
2011:     Hoping for a BM

1960:     Going to a new, hip joint
2011:     Receiving a new hip joint

1960:     Rolling Stones
2011:     Kidney Stones

1960:     Disco
2011:    Costco

1960:     Begging your parents to let your hair grow
2011:     Begging your hair to grow

1960:     Passing the drivers' test
2011:     Passing the vision test

Here's a bonus.  Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together "The Mindset List" to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen.  Here are some items from the list for the class of 2011:

 What Berlin wall?
 Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
 They have grown up with bottled water.
 General Motors has always been working on an electric car.
 Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
 Pete Rose has never played baseball.
 Rap music has always been mainstream.
 Women have always been police chiefs in major cities.
 Eastern Airlines has never “earned their wings” in their lifetime.
 Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
 Being “lame” has to do with being dumb or inarticulate, not disabled.

 They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola “MagiCan.”
 Being a latchkey kid has never been a big deal.
 Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time.
 They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcolm X from Spike Lee.
 High definition television has always been available.
 Time has always worked with Warner.
 Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
 The purchase of ivory has always been banned.
 They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.
 Chavez has nothing to do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil.
 The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
 Chronic fatigue syndrome has always been debilitating and controversial.
 Burma has always been Myanmar.
 Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.
 Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.



Yep. Had a good day today.