Amazing -- Or Not. You Decide

I don't know about you, but I usually follow the link to those silly little personality tests like this one. . . .

http://www.blogthings.com/whosyourinnereuropeanquiz/

Sometimes they are pretty close, sometimes, not so much. And it can be interesting to manipulate your answers to see how the quiz designer's thought process ran. I took the "inner European" quiz and, while some of the choices were really forced choices for me (what, no classic XK-E for favorite car!) the result was interesting.

Your Inner European is Irish!

Spirited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table.

Who's Your Inner European?

Which is interesting considering the numbers of Sweeneys and Sullivans and sundry Scots in my family tree.

What the Heck Did That Last Title Mean?

Sorry. I got sidetracked in mid-post and never explained the title/header. It's not particularly interesting but what the heck. . . .

When I was having that email exchange I describe in the first post, it occurred to me I should do something about that - so I registered the domain eldergeek1.com (don't bother, nothing is there, yet), this blog, and the Gmail address. What I found interesting was that eldergeek and theeldergeek were tied up, both as to domains and blogs. And there's not much on any of the blogs or sites I visited. Some of them are three or four years old, too.

So, rather than fall into the empty blog category I hammered out the first post, off the cuff, more or less. And got interrupted by real life before I could finish it. Well, as John Lennon said "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Happily it was just small "l" life intruding, not capital "L" Life.

Wow! That Was Harder Then You'd Think

Okay, so I had this little email back and forth going with some guys and I made a comment about participating in some truly deep geeking, F&SF discussions, and ended with "Let the Elder Geeking begin." And had an epiphany. I could blog (God, I hate that word, but there it is) about F&SF from the point of view of a, shall we say, more mature aficionado.

Now, I'm not claiming ancient wisdom or anything like that (well, not much, anyway) and I'm sure not among the oldest fans who can still put words together in some semblance of rational thought (heck, there are a few members of First Fandom still hanging on to this mortal coil) but I'm old enough to have a somewhat different view of the current state of the art, particularly in terms of media.

So, how old is old enough? Well, I was a senior in high school during Star Trek (TOS) first run. I was more or less grown up when Star Wars hit the theaters and old enough to fall asleep in the theater, trying to watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Old enough that I was too old (or too busy with work and things) to experience things like The Transformers, or Speed Racer with the requisite degree of enthusiasm.

This blog (arrgh) is going to be my more or less random thoughts about growing up as an undercover geek in the 50s and 60s, and how that colors my views on the current explosion of media F&SF. I may even talk about some literary F&SF, but we'll have to see on that. Between work and, well, more work, and TV, I seem to have less and less time to read. And when I do, I find myself re-reading old favorites. Yeah, that old.