Rants and Raves

Seems like I often have odd posts that don't fit in with electric vehicles.  So for my rants and raves I'm starting this blog. Given my origin in 1958 I often think back to TV shows when I was young.  Like this one when I was nine, 'The 21st Century' where the possible future was imagined:

The 21st Century

This is the only version of the show I could find on youtube. Like Star Trek back in the same timeframe they guessed at the future. I don't think the show holds up nearly as well as Star Trek but it of course had less money and time behind it. It does show the boomers fascination with the future. I guess the 30 hour work week prediction was a bit off. I'm glad Cronkite lived to 2009 to see part of that future. I hope he got to play with an iPhone.

If you don't need an introduction to me and this blog I'll understand if you skip to the next entry.

Or next blog - grin

My Father (also a David) was a Navy Master Chief Sonarman on nuke and diesel subs. He basically fought the cold war underneath the seas. His work was with some of the highest tech of his time - changing daily. While I would have liked him to have more time, he too got to see the beginning of the 21st century. He died in September of 2003.  He loved having PC's both Apple and IBM. He was born in 1930 in Des Moines Iowa ( like the fictional James T Kirk ). His job before enlisting was as a movie usher. He told me realized the Navy was his ticket out of small town life. He had a good head for math and electronics and a good ear for sonar. He was also a private pilot earning his private license to fly with the Navy Flying Club. Dad's Father - Bernard, my granddad, was a bank examiner. Sadly I really can't remember him as he died when I was young.  Basically my Dad was born from a time of outhouses and farming. High tech consisted of the new field of aviation and telephones. He grew up with radio not TV. He worked through the nuclear revolution and saw the dawning of a computerized internet connected

My Mom was from Boston and worked in the medical field as an X-Ray technician and medical transcriptionist. Again like Dad she went from chickens in the back yard to computers in her car. We lost Mom in 2013.  I think the things she liked best about computers was simple games, bulletin board systems, and online chats with other pet owners. Still she also used them in her transcription work - working at home by computer just like Cronkite predicted.

So now the probe Mom and Dad launched in 1958, the 20th Century Voyager (me) continues on into the 21st Century. With a good ex wife two sons were launched in 93 and 97. They are truly young men of the new century - steeped in computers from toddlerhood. Now they are off to college or out on their own.

Now I'm the retired OWG (Old White Guy) trying to stay engaged and useful in new 21st Century.

I am the 20th Century Voyager.