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The 8-Bit Generation
The 8-Bit Generation are those born in or around 1980 who knew a time before Nintendo, Nickelodeon, & personal computers. Their favorite video games are The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, and Final Fantasy. Their technology and performance could still be influenced by blowing harder on the controller or by demagnetizing the tape deck…
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You’re so money and you don’t even know it!
If you’ve never seen the film “Swingers”, I highly recommend it. It came out in the mid-nineties and struck a chord with many in the Gen-X and Gen-Y crowd. To get a great feel for the kind of movie this is, check out the short clip below from Youtube (it is an R rated movie…
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Generation X; Analog to Digital
In the same way saw the Greatest Generation saw the change from horse drawn carriages to automobiles and the birth of airplanes to the rise of the space shuttle, Generation X has seen firsthand the transition from analog to digital: carbon copies to CC: and BCC:, and a slide rule to an iPod. GenXers began…
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Generation X, Y – Two Letters, Two Jobs
I’ve noticed a trend in our generation (the subset between Generation X and Y, The MTV Generation): two jobs. Almost everyone I work with and everyone in my family has two jobs. I have two jobs and even my wife has two jobs [Edit: She had two jobs before having kids, now she has one…
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Defining Generations
Generations Sometimes it feel like the generations are getting smaller, or at least the names for the generations are getting named more often. A generation is generally defined as 20-30 years as this is the time it takes one person to grow up and have a new family. After Generation X (1961-1981) the names for…