I haven’t figured out how to do a firmware update on my cats. 
Any sentence that included “helicopter parents” not accepting “free range kids.”
Thirty years ago I probably wouldn’t have expected to be watching new episodes/movies for the same properties that I was watching back then. Okay, maybe I might have considered Star Wars and Star Trek, but not Frasier. Not Karate Kid: the Series with original castmembers.
- I really need to get hold of X. Should I use WhatsApp, Teams, Zoom or Slack ? Perhaps sending an email would be better ? Or just a text ?
- How about you just call them ?
Back when I was in high school, the television series Charlie’s Angels was a big hit.
Enough time passed that the series faded from public memories so they made a reboot series.
Enough time passed that the reboot series faded from public memories so they made a reboot movie (and sequel).
Enough time passed that the first reboot movies faded from public memories so they made a new reboot movie.
The fact that many of the major players in the Republican party would be on Russia’s side would also be quite a shock
Not strictly speaking a conversation, but I never imagined that I would have to look at something that popped up on my TV screen and mutter to myself something along the lines of, “No, I do not want to ask Alexa for suggestions of shows to watch/No, I do not want Alexa to find a show I’m looking for.”
I refuse to have conversations with anything in my house except myself and my cat. As it is, only one of them pays any attention to me anyway.
I have this discussion with my 19 year old daughter all the time. The young whipper snappers love the asynchronous communication methods and get uptight with a real-time phone call.
I got some vaxing done yesterday. The nurse handed me a card with a QR code on it so I could do a survey. I know those can be sketchy (you never know what web site you’re going to), so I declined and explained why.
I guess there was something kinda similar years ago. RadioShack’s CueCat from 2000. That died a justified quick death.
To still have to think about avoiding the modern version of CueCat is surprising.
(The inventor of CueCat changed his name soon after the fiasco. He later came up with a technology to “detect” bamboo fibers in fake ballots from China. He is a winnar!)
Actually, this thread reminds me of one I started over 2 years ago :
When Technology Changes Language.
What I wrote in then fits this conversation too.
Forty years ago, would you have been expecting Vanna White to still be doing her schtick with the letters on Wheel Of Fortune in 2024?
I wouldn’t have been surprised to find out that Wheel Of Fortune would still be on the air in 2024 but I would have been surprised to find out Vanna would still be there.
Personally, I give Vanna White a lot of credit. She was co-hosting a game show and inexplicably became famous. Most people in her position would have quit the game show to go off to greater things. Some would have succeeded and many would have failed.
White did try to go on to bigger things in tv and movies. But she was smart enough that she never quit the game show. So when tv and movies didn’t work out she still had a job.
Surprised they would keep someone so old, or surprised she hadn’t moved on to bigger things? I remember when she was amazingly huge (and a very bad tv movie), but that was a few years later.
20 years ago, the cryptocurrency - particularly the energy used aspect to mine it - would have been completely weird to hear people talking about for me.
Surprised that they would keep someone so old. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it was a bad thing but I wouldn’t have expected 40 years ago that she would still be there at 67.
She’s probably the same age as most of the audience.
Now you’ve got me thinking about a graph showing the median age of viewers for the show from the 1980s through today.
I’m amazed we’re discussing Vanna being on Wheel because ever since they went electronic, she doesn’t do anything! She’s only there because she’s always* been there. It’s TV comfort food.
Now I’m thinking about people in the entertainment world that have had one job for ever. Like Johnny Gilbert. The man’s 96 fer cripes sake! Let someone else have a go.
*for varying degrees of “always”
I’m going to ask my self driving car to take me to the marijuana store.
When my little brother lived in Michigan, he complained to me once because the recreational dispensary accepted his online order and let him pay with his debit card, but he couldn’t add a tip for the guy who brought his delivery. He had to search his home for cash.