“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
Twenty-five days ago, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate was released. Here’s a photo I just took:
Yes, my save file is 174 hours.
That means in the last month i have spent 29% of my life playing this game.
Here’s Momo in her G-rank gunner armor:
This may be the most addictive game I’ve ever played. 174 hours in under four weeks? That’s a full time job!
Just like last year, there are two birthdays in a row!
KLS’s dad, James B F, was born a long, long time ago. In 1945 to be accurate. This makes him the wizened old age of 68!
As with 1935, a year we learned about yesterday, no-one actually remembers what happened way back in 1945 (aside from Jim being born, of course), so I had to turn to the interwebs for some insight:
– Microwave ovens and computers were invented
– Animal Farm was published
– A plane (accidentally) crashes into the Empire State Building
– Rod Stewart, Bette Midler and Henry Winkler were born
– Petrol was $0.15 a gallon in the US
– (And the one that we actually never forget) Oppenheimer invents the atomic bomb, which was then used twice to end WW2 and kill approximately 200,000 civilians…
…wow, bit of a downer year wasn’t it??!
Oh well, that was forever ago. Let bygones be bygones and celebrate today Jim!
Happy Birthday Jim 🙂
My dad was born in 1935. That was so long ago that no one can remember it. Luckily we have a giant repository of all the information everyone has forgotten, so I took a drive down the information superhighway and discovered this list of other notable events from 1935:
– Helicopters, fluorescent lightbulbs, parking meters, paperback books and radar were all invented
– Amelia Earhart made her solo flight across the pacific
– Persia was renamed Iran (and yet I still have students referring to themselves as ‘Persian’)
– Canned beer first went on sale (in the US)
– Monopoly was released
– Julie Andrews, Woody Allen, Elvis Presley and the Dalai Llama were born
– (Perhaps most notably, considering the topic of this post) The Luftwaffe was created and German began rearmament after WWI 😉
OMG, a good year! I wonder how old dad was before he saw his first parking meter?
Happy 78th Birthday Dad!