<p>Won’t we have I-Pods?</p>
<p>My dear friend died two years ago this week. She was exactly one month older than me. I still have her listed in my email favorites list and I’ve kept her last few emails on my computer.</p>
<p>Re the Monkees: our interim pastor’s last Sunday with us was two weeks ago. Our contemporary “house band” played a great version of “I’m a Believer.” All the baby boomers knew all the words and sang along.</p>
<p>My mom died 2 years ago, I still have her # in my cell phone, and her e-mail address in my e-dress book.</p>
<p>Then again I also have Dr. Phil, Elvis, Oprah, John Stamos, Jodi Foster, Mick Jaggar & John Travolta. (ok, when you dial any of them it sends to my D…that was her b’day gift to me one year, filling my phone with some of my favorite celebs “phone numbers”)</p>
<p>Here’s a 21st century ritual I would like to see – IGNORE IT. Don’t answer the durn cell phone every time it rings. Pay attention to the person you are talking to, and let it wait a few minutes until the conversation/lunch/coffee time etc. is finished. Also when on the phone, how about letting other incoming calls go to your voice mail and picking up the messages when the conversation is done instead of constantly switching back and forth from one conversation to another.</p>
<p>Not going to happen, I know. I’m a hopeless fuddy duddy.</p>
<p>TheDad: You made me laugh outloud. Little hippie? Hmm.</p>
<p>astrophysicsmom: It is of my opinion that the people are intending.</p>
<p>ZILCH. :D</p>
<p>So I’ve been thinking about what someone said that the free email services put it back into service after maybe 3 or 6 months. I know telephone numbers work that way. We’ve gotten a new number before and sometimes get phone calls intended for the previous person. So…wouldn’t it be creepy if I got a new email address and got emails intended for someone else? I know there are some people who have emailed me that I haven’t heard from in over a year. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad as long as I don’t get their junk mail too.</p>
<p>MM, when I was back in college, I was once orally asked to compare Marx and Lenin. I said that Groucho’s comedy was hilarious but that John’s lyrics were a little weak.</p>
<p>Amazing how if you come up with a bad line it can become useful again nearly four decades later. Throw nothing away…you may need it again.</p>
<p>Played “Working Class Hero” in my class today, studying Marx. The other Marx. Don’t think anyone would know who Groucho was (is).</p>
<p>We used to call folks Marxist-Lennonists in the same vein.</p>
<p>I did actually know some Trotskyites! Need a band to call themselves The Trotskys or Trotskyites or some such.</p>
<p>Do they still have fan clubs in this century? Guess they’re all on the web. I was an official card carrying member of the Davy Jones Fan Club. Wish I still had the card; it might be worth something on e-bay. Or not.</p>
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<p>this happened with my dad, and his phone bill. i just sent something to qwest saying he was dead. i did not have to pay the bill. (i also had to send a death certificate, btw, to prove he wasnt just trying to get out of paying it.)</p>
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<p>we were able to get my dad’s comcast email transferred over to my mom’s comcast email. so all his email now comes to her email. he had a yahoo email also, but we just left that alone.</p>
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<p>me too. i even got a new phone, after he died, but i still added him into it.</p>
<p>Mootmom— CONGRATS! You win!!! Zilch!</p>
<p>Paying3…I had that same thought a month or so ago when we attended a function at m-i-l’s assisted living home. They had a sing-along, singing all those songs that 80ish people know all the words to. I told my husband that it would be us in about 30-40 years…but what would we be singing? Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog? Bohemian Rhapsody – of course we’ll all have to take it easy with the exaggerated head motions at the rockin’ part of the song (think Wayne’s World meets Senior Citizens)!!! Earlier this year, we went to a WONDERFUL, sold-out performance of Bob Seger. The entire audience was singing along all night. The only difference is that instead of holding up lighters at the end to call out the encore, we all had our cell phone screens glowing!!! (And the arena didn’t have that overwhelming wafting fragrance of concerts past! Those who did partake could probably make a medicinal argument…cataracts? glaucoma!!!)</p>
<p>Another death ritual: the conversion of the user’s MySpace page to and R.I.P.-User page…</p>
<p>The technological advancements during my lifetime are incredible, and since I plan to be around for a lot longer, it’d be interesting to see how much further they’ll go.</p>
<p>Online guest-books for funeral parlors. If you can’t get to the wake (you live far away or something) it’s nice - if the family ever gets to see it.</p>
<p>One of my kid’s elementary teachers from a few years ago passed away. The wake and funeral were 45 minutes away, and we were leaving that day to go visit DS at college. But I went to the “online guest book” and left a message that said what a wonderful teacher she was, and the impact she had on my child’s life, and left my condolences and sympathy to her family.</p>
<p>Actually, there’s a second generation of kids who know “I’m a Believer” thanks to Shrek.</p>
<p>My kids were really surprised that I knew the words to “Hey Baby” that was remade a couple years ago. </p>
<p>Lots of my old favorites pop up on movie soundtracks, even “I wish I had Jessies Girl” is now on my D’s ipod from 13 going on 30. </p>
<p>Kind of nice to hear some of the blasts from the past again.</p>