posted 12-21-98 01:34 AM ET        

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In looking at profiles, reading your posts and gaining clues from your topics, I have to ask this question.

I get the impression that I am one of the older members of this forum (if not the oldest). I am 39 years old. Heck I probably am the oldest. I am curious what the meadian age of this forum is. Please post your age. If you don't want to post your age, just say "older" or "younger" Who knows, I might have to change my user name to Grandpa WAS!

posted 12-21-98 05:20 AM ET            

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I'm 18, and I believe the youngest is Jimbo who is 13, IIRC.

Imran Siddiqui
God Bless America

posted 12-21-98 07:01 AM ET            

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What happened to JB? Isn't he twelve?

I'm 21.

posted 12-21-98 07:07 AM ET            

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23 in 2 weeks (the 5th Jan)

Happy birthday in advance Lee. Having a birthday so close to Christmas is a pain isn't it?

posted 12-21-98 07:59 AM ET            

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Turning 28 on january 7th. Born 7.1.71, easy to remember... Oh, the pains of old age... anyone retired yet ?

Mike, january 5th ? Hey, I know two people here (ie in Salzburg) who are born jan 5th as well. What a popular date... any more capricorns around ?

posted 12-21-98 10:23 AM ET            

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Well lets see, born on April fools day (and people wonder why I am the jester of the Gods)

38 years and counting...............

posted 12-21-98 10:49 AM ET            

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Well it looks like my suspicions were right with the exception of vanilja, I am right up there. My birthday is Dec. 27, (I am not forty yet). So that makes me one of the geezers of this forum. For any one that wants to know I think having a birthday shortly after Christmas is really cool.
Also Roland, that also makes me a Capricorn!!

Grandaddy WAS

posted 12-21-98 11:26 AM ET            

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Thanks, Mike! I've never really had any complaints about the timing of my birthday; I mean, people are still good to me and all--and besides, I've never known it any other way. :-)

I have more sympathy for folks whose birthdays fall within the few weeks *after* Christmas, like yourself. Folks don't seem to have much money left for presents by then. :-/ (I have a brother born January 14, and I always feel like the poor guy is getting the short end of the stick.)

posted 12-21-98 11:31 AM ET            

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OmniDude, I don't feel like gaming is a juvenile hobby, but I recognise the tendency of wives to dismiss it as such. My own wife is somewhat resigned to my hobby by now.

Many of the 'older' people who play games started as young people who played games. If I live to be 70, I hope I'll still have the mental agility to play and enjoy strategy games. :-)

posted 12-21-98 11:54 AM ET            

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My wife also refers to my computer as the "other woman" and it's speed/ memory are her "measurements". Every time I turn it on I am having a "Passionate interlude".

I once made the mistake of JOKINGLY telling her that in the event of a fire in our house that, I would come back and get her after I rescued the computer. It's a good thing I married a woman with a sense of humor!!
WAS

posted 12-21-98 01:25 PM ET            

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28.

Between the 7-months pregnant wife and 20 month old daughter, there is little time for gaming. It is my favorite hobby, but I have to monitor the time spent. It mostly affects my ability to play multiplayer, since I can never plan ahead for free time (just a half hour here and there).

posted 12-21-98 02:50 PM ET            

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26, going on 50..

I'm not married yet, and my lady spends a fair amount of time on-line, so things are fairly cool as far as the computer/significant other balance around here.

THE DG.

posted 12-21-98 04:16 PM ET            

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Or whats worse yet is when that crying baby is about 1 1/2 or 2. They are too young to be by themselves, so you sit them on your lap while you play then they want to play with the key board & mouse. They hit the Esc key or something that you did not want to do.

Solution: I got an old keyboard and mouse, cut the wiring off of them( that is important if you are going to give it to infants). Now when I want to play games, I tell my son "lets work on the computer" and he gets out his keyboard and mouse, sits beside me and "works".
WAS

posted 12-21-98 07:37 PM ET            

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Hmm, I'm 17 & the little misses is always bothering me, ya know! Or is that the women I only see when I'm drunk? Either way......

When we gonna find the average age here?? I'd say it's about 27 from looking at all these.

Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general,
YYYH

posted 12-21-98 08:07 PM ET            

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WAS:

My wife also have told me about 'man as eternal child' and in same time she used to see soap operas and 'Santa Barbara' and read crime fiction... But when those is over, and all home work is done, and she doesn't know what to do, I show her our PC and say 'and I DON'T have such problem'...
Children is eternal hindrance, be it at 1,2,6 or 12. At 6 vs. 12 (my case) junior demands some attention and senior demands computer time... Sometime I have to stand from keyboard to stop their fighting and disperse them to different rooms...

Btw, there some story here about young father -programmer. Doctor said to him about his 6-month. child "All is well, but possible you need to put some toys in her cradle". "Yeah", he said, "I already hang dead mouse there". Only some time later he have understand, what REALLY he have said...

posted 12-21-98 08:09 PM ET            

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I'm 15. just turned.

WCW
N1M
chris

posted 12-21-98 10:29 PM ET            

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Well, as most of you know, I turned 27 recently. No kids yet, as I've only been married 6 months (again, most of the oldies'd know this). SO I'm gonna enjoy the last 3 years (roughly) before I have kids.

And funny, I always thought Iw as one of the older people. Now I realise there's lots of old farts out there, and I feel much younger.

posted 12-22-98 08:48 AM ET            

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zaz: I'm in the same position, but my gal is just about to start crawling, so they'll have to hurry up with the release of SMAC!

My wife says it's OK for me to play with the computer on times when she or our daughter don't want my company, so long as it doesn't impinge on how awake I am the day after... (Implicitly, that means I usually get to play computer games at night...)

BTW: From mid-March, and 5.5 months onwards, I'm taking over staying home with our daughter. She'll be almost a year old by then (born 5 April), so she'll have stayed home with her parents for almost 1.5 years, before she goes to daycare... I'd prefer it to be 2.5 to 3 years, but I guess I shouldn't complain.

posted 12-22-98 01:55 PM ET            

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Dang, BG, it's hard to believe you've already been married 6 months. I think I had just started in these forums back then. I can't believe how fast the time goes...

Damn, now I'm talking like an old fart.

posted 12-22-98 02:58 PM ET            

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Dandaman: I don't think the game will be that delayed.

I'm 18 born on the 1. of May, which is good because then most people have the day off. Must be the same with Christmas.

posted 12-22-98 08:29 PM ET            

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21 - born in September

I chucked these numbers into the calculator, and this is what it came up with:

Ages counted: 38
Mean: 24.71
S.D.: 7.53

Which makes me less then average!!! :-)
Note that I've only included precise ages.

posted 12-22-98 08:54 PM ET            

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Born Jan 21, 1981.

17 now; 18 in a month.

Sorry, Roland, I'm an Aquarius, but only by a day. However, with a father born Dec 13, a brother Dec 21, a mother born Jan 6, and a sister born Jan 10, I'm rather sure that I know several Capricorns.

posted 12-22-98 10:54 PM ET            

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Well, WAS, you know what they say - you're only as old as the woman you feel. So I just hope your wife is young!

LOL

Actually, a really depressing thought for you. If you take into account that the everage lifespan for a male is int he vacinity of 73 years, do you realise you are past the halfway point?

Thought that might cheer you up.

ROFL

posted 12-23-98 08:01 AM ET            

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Hey, Borodino, never mind the close miss... There are a lot of capricorns in my family as well, gotta be sort of contagious...

BTW, dec 13, doesn't that make your father a... ah, that awful english word I always spell the wrong way, like "Sagittarius" or so ?

BG: As WAS has made it to 40 (almost), he has a good chance to make it beyond 80, so he hasn't passed the line yet... Hyppy birthday, granpa WAS!

posted 12-23-98 11:38 AM ET            

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I'm 21, on june 22. The day Krauts invaded Soviet Union in 1941. A funny day to celebrate some 12 years ago...

Say isn't it a nice company of old people here, ain't it?...

posted 12-23-98 03:31 PM ET            

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I am at my bloody work!!!

The reason (probably the only one) why I like Windows is that you can keep Excel and Word and Netscape alive and activate Netscape when any of the bosses see you

But then again, why am I responding to this? I AM NOT AN OLD GEEZER!!!!!!!

posted 12-23-98 03:34 PM ET            

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That should have been "when none of the bosses can see you"

Must be the grapa and vodka that we now drink at a farewell party to one of my colleagues. He is going to study at INSEAD, blody hell. I'm jealous.

posted 12-23-98 06:58 PM ET            

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Roland, you're probably right; I know my astronomy, but not much about astrology.

I know that French and Russian use vernacular names for constellations. Does German also? English, unfortunately, has fallen into the trap of using the Greco-Roman names for the constellations. Virgo, Centaurus, Crater, Leo, Gemini, Ursa Major, etc, etc. I've always wondered why we don't call them Virgin, Centaur, Cup, Lion, Twins, Big Bear, etc., etc. O well. <sigh>

posted 12-23-98 07:20 PM ET            

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That's hardly a Windows exclusive, Saras.

Along those lines, how many here remember when MSDOS games came with boss keys? C'mon, you've already admitted to your age, so it's not that big a deal to admit being around for some of the early games...