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What does it feel like to be old?
Jul. 25th, 2014 03:05 pmStan Hayward is a nobody. He has no entry of his own at Wikipedia. When he talks on Quora (what's up with that site?), it's mainly about his life on the water, but his bio on his own website talks mainly about his work in British film.
I like this Quora article because, while Stan Hayward has done a bunch of different things, he is still a mediocre person like everyone else.
A certain cat who frequents the K-W furmeets seems to think that I can't be real because I know about too many different things. But I am nearly twice his age, so how could he have a clue about what "too many" would be for my age? This reminds me of an argument I once heard, that evolution can't be true because five million years isn't enough time for the human and the chimp to have evolved from a common ancestor. But people can't even grasp what can be done in 20 years, so how can they know anything about what would be a reasonable result from five million years' worth of slow change?
When I was a teen, I wondered how my father could solve crossword puzzles. How could he know about so many things that seemed to have little direct relevance to his daily life? But now that I am the age he was then, I find crossword puzzles to be fairly easy — it's mostly the same clues, day after day, year after year, just in different combinations. Eventually you learn them.
I like this Quora article because, while Stan Hayward has done a bunch of different things, he is still a mediocre person like everyone else.
A certain cat who frequents the K-W furmeets seems to think that I can't be real because I know about too many different things. But I am nearly twice his age, so how could he have a clue about what "too many" would be for my age? This reminds me of an argument I once heard, that evolution can't be true because five million years isn't enough time for the human and the chimp to have evolved from a common ancestor. But people can't even grasp what can be done in 20 years, so how can they know anything about what would be a reasonable result from five million years' worth of slow change?
When I was a teen, I wondered how my father could solve crossword puzzles. How could he know about so many things that seemed to have little direct relevance to his daily life? But now that I am the age he was then, I find crossword puzzles to be fairly easy — it's mostly the same clues, day after day, year after year, just in different combinations. Eventually you learn them.
