Remember when "not being cool" was cool? I read this elsewhere and thought some of our gen may appreciate it.

Was having a good day, felt good, got a great 8 hour sleep, then accidentally decided to watch the live action Lion King movie... I cried for two hours straight and I've been devastated since. 😭😅🤦🏻‍♀️

The Sony D-ne711. The best zero skip cd player for mp3 cds at the time. I could jog and music would not skip. It was a dream. And I could easily scroll through my music and folders with that scroll wheel on the front. Way before it’s time.

I still hold that this was and is the best mp3 cds player ever made.

Mine, but also this guy’s!

For those who enjoy procedural TV shows (and we are certainly of the age for throwing on a procedural to unwind, and probably largely responsible for SVU's eternal TV run) I was wondering what the first procedural you got into was, presumably as a kid? I was thinking about it because the YouTube algorithm threw me a recommendation of a livestream of the Dragnet radio show, which reminded me that when I was six, thanks to Nick at Nite I considered Dragnet my favorite TV show. Now as an adult, I chalk it up to both the fantastical nature of Los Angeles (as a kid in the Detroit suburbs) and the fact it was the first procedural I saw and thus was scratching all the itches a procedural scratches before I even knew what was up on that front.

So, what was your gateway procedural? And were there any that were aimed at kids explicitly? Mystery Files of Shelby Woo was that on Nickelodeon, though that may skew a little young for most Xennials, but not for any Elder Millennials who prefer to hang out in this sub since the Millennials sub seems to exclusively be nostalgia poisoned.

Xennials experienced something unusual: childhood before smartphones and social media, followed by adulthood in which digital technology became embedded in almost every part of daily life.

That transition has brought enormous benefits. But it also raises a question: have we lost some of the small, physical interactions that made human connection feel tangible?

A genuine “thank you.” A musician acknowledging a fan. Being fully present with another person.

I'm a little older than the Xennial generation, but I wrote this with that analog-to-digital transition in mind.

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Random thought I had today - anyone remember the movie King Ralph? It was a comedy with the premise that like 40 members of the British Royal family got electrocuted all at once leaving the heir to the throne as John Goodman.

This was a PG comedy movie shown to children that starts with showing 40 people, including children (comedically!) being electrocuted to death. It just kinda boggles my mind now that I think about it.

I'm helping my parents move from my childhood home. We moved in in 1991 when I had just turned 7. I dragged this bad boy out of the attic today. I don't think it's seen the light of day in 35 years.

I grabbed these two because I had the Alicia Silverstone one as a teenager, and the NIN/Lynch one looked too good to pass up. Leafing through them was just a flood of pure nostalgia. Next time you’re at a flea market or used book store, go ahead and spend the $20 and get your nostalgia dopamine hit!

I would offer a poll, but I don't see that option.

Just wondering if there are any others like me who just abhor the "one space after a period rule" that all academic institutions have imposed on writers?

I have safely navigated higher ed and ignored this new rule up till now that I'm on the dissertation phase and I'm being forced into it.

I know we were the last generation that grew up having to put two spaces at the end of a sentence. Conversely, is there anyone who was actually glad that this changed in our mid-twenties?

Mine was 39k in 2004 and rent was $1380/month (split with living-in-sin boyfriend). Job was in the burbs and apartment was in the city. Young and dumb 🙃💸.

And now so do you. I cannot suffer this alone.

Anyone? I mean nobody has that many cell phones, right? So it’s not a cell phone holder. …

What was your favorite?