That IS weird.

The clock on my computer is showing the correct time.

However, 1969 wasn't a bad year. I was only 4 so I don't remember much about it except the moon landing on TV and the rent house on the hill in my home town.

Skinner and his minions are going to get a hoot out of this thread and want some compensation for over three decades of missed ad revenue.

thanks for the screen shot

and here I thought you'd been hitting the magic mushrooms.

Your computer has a poltergeist.

in some ways, I wish that 1969 was here again - but that we knew then what we knew now, at least so as to re-elect Jimmy Carter in 1980!

OK, so long as I'm wishing, I'd wish that my then-kids were also grown up, that I was married then to the husband I am married to now, that we had the internet, including word processing programs (oh, the gallons of white-out that I needed to use over the years!) and electronic devices.

But I would also wish that my weight now was that of 1969!

I'm big on the British invasion and some of the clothing styles from that time such as polka dots and mini skirts.

When I was in my twenties, I had a pair of gold wire-framed Lennon eyeglasses that I thought were cool. I'd love to find similar type frames today since they complemented the bone structure of my face, but I'd probably have to pay a fortune to buy them.

The Vietnam War was horrible and there were other aspects of the 60s that were also dubious, but I do hold some nostalgia for those times.

innocent now - even though there were lots of rather horrifying events bubbling just under the surface - and the Vietnam War, which was not.

still here...

I got a bleeder and a bruise on the back of my thigh the other night.

Nixon is still president though, isn't he?

Carter is a more pleasant thought though.

maybe one day I'll get a DUzy

Wow, if I'm posting on DU at my age, I must be a prodigy! I'm also drinking Bailey's and coffee right now. I have very permissive parents, I guess.

my parents were Southern Baptists. The only time I saw alcohol in the house was when they would moisten the fruit cake at Christmas.

I'm so shocked they're letting me drink Bailey's and coffee. Besides, where did I get the Bailey's? They must be hypocritical Baptists, which I guess is rather redundant.

"The problem with Baptists is that they don't hold them under long enough."

I kept laughing for the next mile after I read that one.

I was captured by the Time Lords along with the Second Doctor and exiled to Earth. Damn you humans!

Turn on, tune in, drop out!

One of my friends made tie dyes and sold them at Grateful Dead concerts in the early 90s, while another friend was arrested for buying a sheet at a concert in the Midwest. I'm grateful that I was fortunate and did not have one of those bad trips.

After Hornsby split, though, quality shows were few and far between. I saw a few good ones from 92-95, but the whole thing went downhill. It was a shame. 89-90, though, the band was on FIRE.

Whenever you see that online it means a server is reading 0 in a timestamp field.

You had to go and ruin a perfectly good thread by knowing stuff.

Quasimodo told me.

I used to work on a Unix server about 15 years ago, but didn't know that was the default value for the timestamp. A bit of trivia to store away that may come in handy since I'm a stat analyst/program debugger. Thanks.

We're actually approaching a much thornier version of Y2K when that told over in 20 years or so. (It displays as December 31 because EST is behind GMT.)

When your computer fetches the Latest Page, does the DU server populate the time fields ? That was my understanding.

The timestamps on the individual posts in this thread are showing the accurate time. However, I'm not a geek guru and my skills are more towards software applications.

The only other thing that this thread needs is

I'm still showing the correct time, but I'm getting the blinking light on my mouse. That shouldn't be causing the problem though.

In that it starts remembering the time again.

I keep old machines around, I'm a "late adopter" of new computer stuff, I like to let them work the bugs out before I decide to buy and learn some new big thing. I used to work in R&D and had all the latest toys, and it's just amazing how much of your time can be wasted trying to work with buggy programs.

But next time you see it, you will know what it is.

But I hope Harold Wilson stays on as Prime Minister, and that awful Tory MP for Finchley never gets anywhere. She'll be Minister of Education if the Tories win. And I hope you can get rid of Nixon sometime; and that dreadful ex-actor who is now a dreadful governor of California also disappears as soon as possible.

The Beatles and Rolling Stones are giving us some great music, anyway.

Better go now; this big firm that I'm visiting doesn't like visitors using its great huge computer, and I'm not used to computers anyway. And how do I seem to end up communicating with people on other computers? That wasn't supposed to happen! It's like some weird science fiction film!

LBJ had a chance to squash the invasion but failed to act and look what it did for this country. Not only did we have the Beatles and Rolling Stones invade our country, but then you sent us the Moody Blues, David Bowie, The Dave Clark Five and (egads) The Animals. Cretins all!

Please do log off though, we wouldn't want to blow any vacuum tubes with your nefarious activity. The MI5 is watching you.