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I was in my double digits, yet not quite a teen, and 8000 miles away from Bethel, NY. Saw glimpses of Woodstock in Life magazine (my lifeline to a world half a planet away), and felt a magical connection that I couldn't express to most people at the time. About a year later, watching the film by the same name on the silver screen, I knew some day, one day, somehow, I would find myself in the land of CSNY and Apollo 11. That didn't happen until I turned 20. Making music (and writing code) have brought me so much joy, I sometimes have to pinch myself.
Assuming you existed at the time, where were you, pray tell?
/ravi
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I was about 4, in the Boston, MA area.
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I was a thought in my parents' mind.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I was a thought in my parents' mind.
I was a thought in my parents' mind, too, but I was also in a canoe on an unnamed lake near Dryden, Ontario. We were on an island in the middle of a forest fire.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I was in NZ, nothing much happened there then happens there ever.
although [perhaps in response to Woodstock???] they did lower the voting age from 21 to 20 !!!
I'm sure, allowing such young children to vote would have upset more than a few decent peoples' sensibilities.
Me though, too young to remember, only 2 years ahead of PIEBALD.
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Is it time to wish you Happy Birthday ?
On that date, I was almost 26 years old, working for the Recreation Center for the Handicapped in San Francisco, organizing community services for groups including those returned from the closing of the large rural mental hospitals to the "community," for isolated senior citizens, for disabled young adults.
I enjoyed long runs on Ocean Beach, and swam, alone at night, without wet-suit (a crazy thing to do given the rip-tides) in the icy water after warming up with pranayama. Long walks in Golden Gate Park. Trips to China town to study Tai Chi Quan with Master Choy, followed by cheap Chinese at the restaurant with the famously insulting waiter Edsel Fong Ford [^].
Music at the Fillmore, Winterland, poetry readings at 'Minnie's Can-Do' bar [^].
those were the daze, my friend ...
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: those were the daze, my friend ...
Indeed, sir. I'm convinced I was born 10 years too late, Bill-ji. If the stars were otherwise aligned, I'd have jammed at the Troubadour and likely been an early employee at Apple. But don't get me wrong, I'm (immensely) grateful for what I have, an in particular, my (reasonably) good health.
/ravi
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After single-handedly holding off the massed Russian hordes on the East/West German border for several years, I had just handed back to the quartermaster my sword, spurs, sidearm and several small nuclear devices, and was on terminal leave from Her Majesty's employ.
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I was almost a decade away from being born
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I was only 10 years old and didn't have a clue about computers, my interests were kiting and photography. Even won a prize at a kiting contest in Belgium with a Scott sled[^] type kite !
modified 18-Aug-19 1:42am.
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My ingredients hadn't hadn't been put in a bowl yet, not for another couple of years.
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I was ten, and lived on the moon.
In my imagination, at least. In practice, I lived in the local library, nose buried in science fiction books ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wales does have a few industries other than sheep farming...
Economy of Wales
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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FAKE NEWS!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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farming was a euphemism...... 
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I wasn't interested in girls at that age ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I was 5 years old, on the IMV (Israeli Marine Vessel) Nili, somewhere between Venice and Haifa.
(We were emigrating to Israel)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was sitting thinking about grassy knolls and book repositories.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Having fun with my new born son.
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My mom was a kid and my dad was in his early teens.
So I guess I was just chillin' in a stork's nest or a cabbage field or wherever babies come from 
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Isle of Wight festival
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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/ravi
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I was somewhere around Melbourne, between business trips north (I watched the moon landing from Bundaberg). Being a weekend, I was probably hanging with my then fiancee, now my wife of 49 years.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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