Late Late Nite FDL: Old Geezer Edition
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 13th, 2008 4:37 am by HL
Late Late Nite FDL: Old Geezer Edition
From Slate’s Geezers Need Excitement: What Happens When Old People Go Online:
How to spot a middle-aged Internet addict: They know who firedoglake is.
Please consider this to be an invitation to all the geezers to de-lurk and say “hi”. We have ample walker parking, large type fonts on all monitors, and recharging stations for our hearing aid batteries are located at each power station, next to the brain bleach (we do get kinda bawdy here at Late Late Nite).
The Zimmers - Welcome To My Generation (h/t Eureka Springs for the video).
What’s on your mind tonight?
From Slate’s Geezers Need Excitement: What Happens When Old People Go Online:
How to spot a middle-aged Internet addict: They know who firedoglake is.
…Earlier this year, when John McCain confessed that, with respect to the Internet, he’s “an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get,” he proved himself to be an anomaly for a college-educated 65-plus white man. Seventy-five percent of his peer group can drive a browser.
Please consider this to be an invitation to all the geezers reading to de-lurk and say “hi”. We have ample walker parking, large type fonts on all monitors, and recharging stations for our hearing aid batteries are located at each power station, next to the brain bleach (we do get kinda bawdy here at Late Late Nite).
The Zimmers - Welcome To My Generation (h/t Eureka Springs for the video).
What’s on your mind tonight?
September 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
My driver’s license says I’m a geezer but my foggy mirror says otherwise. I always lurk because the stuff here is so fascinating! Firedoglake was riveting during the Scooter Libby trial. I never miss it.