Clark, YES THEY ARE ! The kids you picked on yesteryear, own the companies your applying to today. :( Almost makes me wish I'd been a nicer person back then. :) Tom Bogan
"The kids you picked on yesteryear, own the companies your applying to today."
Don't know what universe you are in but THOSE kids are the grandparents of the company owners. Check out the ages of the owners of Google, Twitter etc...all in early 20's, if that....
"Don't know what universe you are in but THOSE kids are the grandparents of the company owners. Check out the ages of the owners of Google, Twitter etc...all in early 20's, if that...."
I'm assuming he was being metaphorical...or allegorical or something symbolic as opposed to literal (Jeez, now I'm sounding like a nerd!) We disparaged the idea of nerds when we were kids - even if some of our peers may have looked down on us as nerds. Sort of a nerd pecking order, if you will.
Point being that it wasn't cool then to be a nerd, but now I'm afraid it is.
Michael, you are the only one I know who Tweets from their blog.
ReplyDelete*BTW, I despise the phrase Tweet. Why in the hell did they not call it Twittering?!?!?
Lordy - "twittering" is even worse!
ReplyDeleteAlmost as bad as Googling.
What the hell is it with these new techno types? Are the nerds truly taking over?
Clark, YES THEY ARE !
ReplyDeleteThe kids you picked on yesteryear, own the companies your applying to today. :(
Almost makes me wish I'd been a nicer person back then. :)
Tom Bogan
"Almost" being the key word here, Tom. Agreed.
ReplyDelete"The kids you picked on yesteryear, own the companies your applying to today."
ReplyDeleteDon't know what universe you are in but THOSE kids are the grandparents of the company owners. Check out the ages of the owners of Google, Twitter etc...all in early 20's, if that....
"Don't know what universe you are in but THOSE kids are the grandparents of the company owners. Check out the ages of the owners of Google, Twitter etc...all in early 20's, if that...."
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming he was being metaphorical...or allegorical or something symbolic as opposed to literal (Jeez, now I'm sounding like a nerd!) We disparaged the idea of nerds when we were kids - even if some of our peers may have looked down on us as nerds. Sort of a nerd pecking order, if you will.
Point being that it wasn't cool then to be a nerd, but now I'm afraid it is.