Happy Birthday Griz!

[Old Henk]

:Birthday:  :party:

59? getting old, eh?  :P

[Greven]

Yes Happy B'day to you....

"Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Griz", as we say in danish!

[Zelos]

persinaly I dont belive its his birthday, he is ismply to old to have interest in things like this then. and if he faked his age he will most likly fake his bday aswell

[Old Henk]

Hey, some older people are still cool! :)

[Zelos]

maybe, but 59 is just to much, he could be my grandpa

[Griz]

maybe, but 59 is just to much, he could be my grandpa

say hi to your grandma for me. ...
it's been a long time. :evil:

friends who know me say I am just a 10 year old ...
with 49 years of experience.
yup.

actually ...
I never expected to live this long ...
and having done some of the things I've done ...
probably shouldn't have.
but ...
like a cat with nine lives ...
here I am. ;)

[Zelos]

I dont belive you for 5 öre

[Griz]

persinaly I dont belive its his birthday, he is ismply to old to have interest in things like this then. and if he faked his age he will most likly fake his bday aswell

I've been interested in things like this since before there WERE things like this! ;)

way back then ...
Conway's Life was thought to be ALife ...
which of course it isn't ...
but it certainly sparked people's interest in such things.
I first heard/read about it via reading Martin Gardner ...
in a great column he used to write in Scientific American.
this was before most of you scurvy nubs were even born ...;)
back when I just got out of school and was qualifying as a
nuclear reactor operator.
[and when Scientific  American was a good mag!]

all of us were interested in such things ...
and had some great brainstorming sessions that would go
all night long!
but not only did we not have computers ...
one could barely afford an HP calculator back then!
you can buy a computer today for what you would have to
pay for a 'scientific' calculator in 1970.
hard to play ALife on a sliderule ...
but we still played with the ideas ...
and used to actually plot out by hand ...
the progressing generations in Conway's Life ...
looking for new 'gliders'. it was fascinating!!!
[still is] ;)

it took the computer before we could actually 'see'
or be provided with what the Madelbrot set 'looked' like.
prior to that ... visualizing it was just an abstract thing ...
an idea one had to hold in one's head ...
after all ... irrational numbers aren't very rational are they?

so I have always been jazzed on computers ...
used as a tool with which one can visualize math ...
and render these absract ideas as graphics.
now ... everyone can 'see' them.

you 'youngin's' these daze ...
are all spoiled. :D hehehe
"why ...back in my day ...
we had to walk barefoot thru 3 foot of snow just to
get to the store to buy another 512MB of RAM ......
only to find out ...
no such thing had yet been invented." ;)

for the non-believers ...
here's some pictures.
of course they may be faked as well.
(the one with the polar bears is of course!)
but why would I fake them to make me old ... and not young. ;)
http://community.webshots.com/user/objack2

~griz~
[ie ... old, grey, grizzled, silverback]
aka outback jack

[Zelos]

so ure saying ure really old as wolverine/dumbledore then?

[Griz]

:Birthday:  :party:

59? getting old, eh?  :P

yup!
beats the heck out of the alternative!!! ;)

[Zelos]

man, call the arkeoligiets, we have a man from the stone age among us

[Griz]

man, call the arkeoligiets, we have a man from the stone age among us

you should hope to get so old .... :P

if you're nice ...
I may reveal some of my many secrets. ;)

[Zelos]

have anyone of you ever watched justice league?

[Greven]

Zelos, why are you so skeptic...??? PY is around 40. Why should anyone, and even with a scientific background, loose interest on certain areas, just because they got older??? Von Neuwman, Turing, Stanislaw Ulam, all the great theorectical minds back in the 40-50's (which laied the ground for artificial life), were not young lads like you and me, that suddenly invented some abstract machines! Well I really dont understand you Zelos.

[Zelos]

why im skeptic? thats my nature, I skeptice anything that doesnt seem possible. 59? comon he is ready to stop working and be like those old ppl who just complain on us young ppl like "in my days we didnt talk to old ppl like you" while we answer "sorry granny but this is my days and we do it, so buzz off". for moder nature he is like trash (dont take it persinal) he going out for and is bieng wiped out just to live room for us young ones. aswell as we are gonna be when we grow old, man I dont wanna be a slow senil old man.