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Ah yes. Chain emails were where meme-like disinformation used to spread before Facebook made it even easier. At least I don't have people forwarding garbage into my inbox anymore.
Count yourself lucky. FWIW these are still a thing in older crowds.
Poppyfields filk version of it - Everyone's Free (to document their system) http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00281.html > If I could offer you one tip for the future, documentation would be it. The long term benefits of a well documented system, with FAQs, RFCs, and man pages, have been proven time and again by systems administrators everywhere, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own mis…
Interesting! I am the age when I should have come across this song, but I never did. Never saw the music video, never heard it on the radio, never heard anyone talk about it at school. The advice is timeless, but I don't know that the song has aged particularly well. If you can call it that. It's less a song and more an essay read over a very 90s beat, and not 90s in a way that makes me nostalgic either.
I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out. Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?
For radio play, I was living in rural Alabama at the time. Wouldn't shock me if the local station never played it because someone's church had some kind of issue with it. (Famously my mother once called in to request a Billy Idol song and was refused because the DJ claimed that Idol was a satanist.)
For the music video, my dad was the unrelenting Master of the Remote Control, and he didn't care for music videos (although he loved rock music. I have his record collection. Go figure.) My brother and I did get to watch stuff, but my brother is younger still. At the time, we would have been watching programs suitable for both of us, which was mostly cartoons, as he was the right age range and I wasn't quite too old.
I definitely had friends and classmates who were watching music videos and talking about them at school. I remember that much, but don't remember any details. I probably tuned them out since I wasn't paying attention to music videos anyway.
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Where did you roam? What was the best place to be a digital nomad? How sustainable is that lifestyle?
While an EU citizen can at least roam in the EU fine, and a US citizen can roam the 50 states, seems that roaming outside of that would be exceedingly difficult and expensive to get appropiate visa (if they exist)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_S...
Poppyfields filk version of it - Everyone's Free (to document their system) http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00281.html > If I could offer you one tip for the future, documentation would be it. The long term benefits of a well documented system, with FAQs, RFCs, and man pages, have been proven time and again by systems administrators everywhere, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own mis…
Code IS documentation!
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While an EU citizen can at least roam in the EU fine, and a US citizen can roam the 50 states, seems that roaming outside of that would be exceedingly difficult and expensive to get appropiate visa (if they exist)
A bit of an anti-globalist perspective IMO. With an EU or US [1] passport you can freely visit 100s of countries with no visa - or "visa on arrival" which is usually still relatively cheap for most countries. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_S...
>>The column was circulated around the Internet, with an erroneous claim that it was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut, usually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the misattribution became a news item when Vonnegut was contacted by reporters to comment. He told The New York Times, "What she wrote was funny, wise and charming, so I would have been proud had the words been mine."[15]
What a mensch Kurt Vonnegut was.
It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
Very much agree re: the aging advice in the song, my gosh the difference past 40! I sorta followed the advice of the song and spent around 10 years in California (LA + Bay Area). Have spent the following 10 years living in the NYC area (mostly, there was a short break in the middle). Wish the song gave a suggestion after you leave both! I tried the “live in a large RV” life in 2021 traveling all over and it was great…
And the number of people trying to self-fund their full time lifestyle on Youtube...holy smokes.
It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
38 here, things just don't heal as fast and tend to ache for weeks or months.