Too Old!

amendegw wrote on 4/10/2013, 1:55 PM

I just received the following comment on one of my Sony Vegas tutorials. Don't know whether to interpret this as an insult or a compliment.

In either case, it did cause me to chuckle. :-)

...Jerry (now on a search for Voice Over talent)

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 4/10/2013, 2:22 PM

Those durned young whippersnappers!

rmack350 wrote on 4/10/2013, 2:24 PM

More like Old Enough to Know Too Much.

john_dennis wrote on 4/10/2013, 2:29 PM

... and video editing just started happening when Google brought up youtube...

JasonATL wrote on 4/10/2013, 2:29 PM

Jerry - Thanks for sharing. Gave me a nice chuckle, too.

Working with youngsters every day (I'm a college prof.), I try to interpret such comments in the best possible light (even if I'm sometimes wrong!).

In this case, I think the person genuinely meant it as a compliment.

Laurence wrote on 4/10/2013, 2:39 PM

Too funny! You go from being so far ahead of the youngsters that you can't imagine how they would ever catch up ... to out of the blue one day your 12 year old showing you something so completely new and extraordinary that you wonder just how far behind you might actually be... yep...I understand this comment completely!

musicvid10 wrote on 4/10/2013, 2:42 PM

Your newfound friend "Pedro" uploaded one video, five years ago.
Looking at it, he doesn't care a bit about noise reduction . . .

Must be those strong Portugese cigarettes.

Laurence wrote on 4/10/2013, 3:45 PM

Five years ago! It sounds like Pedro is too old to be editing video as well!

JJKizak wrote on 4/10/2013, 4:39 PM

I did find this corelation--the older the person the bigger the monitor.
JJK

Laurence wrote on 4/10/2013, 5:05 PM

I have two big monitors that I peer at through my progressive bifocals... not that I'm old... I'm just saying ...

Rory Cooper wrote on 4/11/2013, 1:38 AM

FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 4/11/2013, 4:23 AM

Hire a teenager while they still know it all.

amendegw wrote on 4/11/2013, 4:28 AM

Good one, Rory! Inspired me to search out another oldie-but-goodie.

...Jerry

Richard Jones wrote on 4/11/2013, 4:33 AM

Good one Jerry. I like it.

And I though the tutorial was excellent so please take it as a complement.

Richard

craftech wrote on 4/11/2013, 7:14 AM

Reminds me of a bluegrass group I used to listen to.

John

_Lenny_ wrote on 4/11/2013, 7:48 AM

I realised I was 'old' (really only middle aged) when...

1. The optician suggested Varifocals
2. I had to start reading the manuals for hi-tech items
3. My children discover and use features on tech items that I never knew existed, despite reading the manual.

Oh, and when I injury myself, the injury just lingers and never seems to completely heal.

JJKizak wrote on 4/11/2013, 8:55 AM

My new goodbye reply to people is "don't get old, don't get sick, and never go to the hospital because you come out with new stuff you didn't have before".
JJK

riredale wrote on 4/11/2013, 10:05 AM

Pretty funny. This has turned into an "old guys" thread.

(1) My legs always feel like I just ran a "Bridge Circuit" (7mi) in Boston like I could so easily do lo those many years ago.

(2) My glasses are trifocals and I have a half-dozen pairs of reading glasses around the house.

BUT, there are compensations--

(1) I really do feel more experienced and, well, wiser. When people say Bullcrap things I can recognize it readily.

(2) I now get free coffee at some fast-food establishments. Gotta take the good with the bad, you know.

(3) I don't worry AT ALL about polar bear habitat. They'll do just fine. I know this for a fact.

im.away wrote on 4/11/2013, 8:47 PM

G'day

Seeing as though this has turned into an old guys thread, I'll throw this one in.....

One of my former colleagues said to me once "You know you're getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night."

With the beneft off having gotten "old", I now know exactly what he meant.

Cheers

Laurence wrote on 4/11/2013, 8:52 PM

An old guyI knew when I was a young man used to tell me that he needed to get his sex drive lowered. You see (he would say) it was all in his head...

c3hammer wrote on 4/11/2013, 10:28 PM

Now there's the ultimate insult to injury. When you click on the link to "Old and In the Way" and find that there's not even a sample clip to listen too you know you're way over the hill :)

I'm a huge bluegrass fan and pick a little mandolin on occasion.

I'd take that comment as a compliment for sure and I'm only just over the mid century.

Cheers,
Pete

Chienworks wrote on 4/12/2013, 7:51 AM

I'm still at that cusp where my body thinks it's over 50, but my brain still thinks it's only 20. This guarantees that they're never in sync with each other.

musicvid10 wrote on 4/12/2013, 10:33 AM

When I was twenty, I tried to kill myself with drugs.
When I was thirty, It tried to kill myself with sex.
When I was forty, I tried to kill myself with alcohol.
When I was fifty, I tried to kill myself with pork fat. That one almost succeeded!

Barry W. Hull wrote on 4/12/2013, 2:14 PM

Funny.

rs170a wrote on 4/12/2013, 2:52 PM

musicvid, what ever happened to rock and roll (i.e. sex, drugs and rock and roll)?
:)

Mike