20 years later

[arpad]

So, if someone would have shown me in 1987 that:

• At eleven in the night I am sitting in rotating chair in front of my own computer.
  
• Internet links me with all outside world
  
• Panorama of some night town in Israel under my window
  
• Writing something in English, watching some TV series in English
  
• Knowing some Hebrew too
  
• Table full of strange electronic gadgets, phone, cell-phone...
  
• Seal of my own start-up company on the top of scanner on the right
  
• Databases of two other projects in the computer
  
• My library mostly in the computer
  
• Esher's biography and full catalog on nearby bookshelf
  
• Air conditioner on the wall above me
  
• Little souvenir sword from Toledo - gift of a friend on the table near computer mouse.
  
• Electric kettle,teabags, tasty little things in the fridge
  
• Yeah, and I do not share the apartment with parents or roommates
  
• Yeah, and I have microwave oven (would have had to explain me what it is...)
  
• Yeah, and I have driving license
  
• Yeah...
  

The twenty years younger me would have said "cool" (or, rather, something similar in Russian - he didn't know what "cool" means yet).

So why I am so not cool if so many nice things are around?

*chuckles*

Life is a bitch.

Comments

[natsla.livejournal.com]

because you're pushing 40?

and it's yeah with an h, sorry

[arpad.livejournal.com]

I bow before the power of superior spelling :)

And yeah, I actually know why (the list is long and not so interesting). But it is just funny that from my past it looks so different.

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

and it's "didn't know", with an 'o' :)

[arpad.livejournal.com]

noted.

[phyloxena.livejournal.com]

Oh, but you are. Just imagine people who were in 67 like you in 87. Imagine them in 87.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Depends. These guys probably were happier than same generation in Russia.
http://david-2.livejournal.com/166523.html

[phyloxena.livejournal.com]

But you were speaking about Soviet Union. These guys were way cool in 67 already (were you in 87?)

[arpad.livejournal.com]

But you were speaking about Soviet Union.
I spoke about myself. Happened to be there.

were you in 87?
Mmm - a detailed answer to that can probably hurt my self-esteem :)

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

I went there for a visit in 1988 to practice speaking Russian.
Unfortunately, I've not used Russian since and have forgotten almost all of what I knew.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you can tolerate my journal as a result, so the time was not totally wasted :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/mask_/]

If twenty years ago someone told me that in 2007 I would still want to be cool, or, for this matter, still want something at all, I would probably think him crazy.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

a point

[kratovskijyegor.livejournal.com]

Кто бы мне в 1983 году сказал, что обкуренные американьские пролетарии сработали машину, на которой я буду ездить в 1999-ом. А в 1973, когда я собирал на московской помойке стеклянные шарики, пачкая мышиную школьную форму, сказал бы мне кто, что мэрилендские строители соорудили дом, в который я въеду в 2006 году...

В связи с этим вопрос: какие чудеса (которые создаются для нас уже сейчас)мы увидим лет через 20?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Спокойно, дружище, спокойно!
У нас еще все впереди.
Пусть шпилем ночной колокольни
Беда ковыряет в груди -
Не путай конец и кончину:
Рассветы, как прежде, трубят.
Кручина твоя - не причина,
А только ступень для тебя.

Спокойно, дружище, спокойно!
И пить нам и весело петь.
Еще в предстоящие войны
Тебе предстоит уцелеть.
Уже и рассветы проснулись,
Что к жизни тебя возвратят,
Уже изготовлены пули,
Что мимо тебя просвистят. (с)

И пить нам и весело петь

[kratovskijyegor.livejournal.com]

Это пока для меня большая стратегия. Пока же бьюсь над пустячным, казалось бы, вопросом: как начать пить весело?

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

Hey, look at the bright side. As you long as you have your health and your job, things are going pretty well :)

...

[tmin.livejournal.com]

i will easily use English conditionals

[arpad.livejournal.com]

:)

[shoshana-d.livejournal.com]

You've got a driver's license? You are indeed a cool guy!Got a car, too? (hee-hee-hee).
А вот Гарфильд утвеждает, что Life's a beach!

to know > to have

[arpad.livejournal.com]

.
And, well, Garfield have someone to supply him with healthy amount of lazania.

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

P.S: Does your startup need an HR person yet?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

At this stage we need Human Resources themselves, not their coordinator :)

Yes, the following two positions are still open.

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I was looking for something for the missus.