I speaking with a friend over a drink after my birthday meal. He is telling me that certain vintage video games consoles have doubled in value in less than a year. Ideas I've been having for a while condense around his words. My generation are in the ascension. We are reaching that point where we can decide what happens to us, around us. We are starting to get powerful, starting to shine. We are coming into the focus of the twenty year cycle.
The twenty year cycle hasn't been around long, since the late seventies I suppose. In fact I think it might be shortening. It couldn't exist without the speed at which our media progresses, and it stands to reason that as the media gets faster (blogs, the internet, email) the cycle will shorten. The cycle is the product of people growing up and having the disposable income to purchase the weird and wonderful things they have wanted since they were children, or to replace something they had as a child for that nostalgia.
It's an interesting time. What will we do with our new found power? What sections of our childhood pop culture will be resurected?

Ok so I've added some nice fades to the background of text areas, which make everything a bit easier to read. Sadly IE does something silly as the transparancy is done using a png, so I have to use the (proprietry) gif format. I plan to do some browser sniffing serverside one day so the IE users get a (dirty) gif and the FF/Opera bods get a nice clean friendly png.

To be honest with you I don't know why I care, but for some reason I do!

Birthday Celebrations

Well it was my birthday on Sunday so the weekend became one long celebration of me :) Friday night a load of people rocked down to Mr Wolfs for a few beerios, which was nice. We stayed there until our numbers dwindled a little then wandered up to Giant Robot at the Cooler (didn't get in) then to The Woods. Stayed there till about 4am chatting with randoms then went to a friends house and carried on chatting drinking and eating pasta till the morning. Went home, sent a few texts to people basically saying do not disturb and fell asleep.
Saturday all the plans went awry. Had planned to be in The Woods most of the evening but there was a private party there and we wouldn't have all got in, so we went to Morphs for a few lagers (nice place, looked like it did good food, but not really an ideal bar...). Met up with the stragglers there then tried to get into Mr Wolfs, but that too was full, so we ended up in The River, which turned out to be pretty cool. There was a pretty decent blues band playing and I think most people had a good, or very good time. About 1:30am we decided to move onto somewhere else (the band had finished), tried Mr Wolfs again, and were again turned away, so wandered round to the Arc Bar, which was playing some fairly decent UK Hip Hop.
Left there about 2 I think, wandered home via a chip shop with Dee and Colin (carrying Dee a fair amount of the way), and was nicely tucked up in bed by half three.
Sunday went for brunch with Colin and his friends from Uni, mooched around the house and then went for a curry at the Redland Tandoori. Nice way to end the weekend :)
What made me really made me happy was how many people came out. I have a lot of very good friends, and I'm lucky.

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