Comments by "Joe Blow" (@JoeBlow_4) on "David Hoffman" channel.

  1. Computer classes had started about four years earlier than this in my high school. We looked at the early adopters as geeks. But 1979 my sister had graduated college and was able to program in fortran, cobol and two other languages. It moved fast ;) Once again another great time capsule video. That father and son writing a program to do their taxes was awesome.
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  2. "....to protest something or another". Wow. To minimize the fight for civil rights like that says volumes about where we were back then.
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  3. I loved this. I felt for the guy fearing Alzheimer's.
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  4. His life wasn't a waste. he's a writer and a poet and very accomplished. He's a big part of Ken Burns' documentary. This is W. D. Ehrhart. Look him up.
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  5. In 1970, the marijuana THC content was comically less than it is by today's standards. "According to an article from 2017, published in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, the THC concentration in cannabis 50 years ago (1973) was less than 3%. On the other hand, the current THC levels of some weed strains are more than 30%." (from leafnation and my earlier post).
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  6. I loved this. I felt for the guy fearing Alzheimer's. She is so crucial to that community; it's amazing.
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  7. It's all relative. You were acting like 1978 was an advanced information age. Too funny.
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  8. This was cool David. Well done. Full circle.
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  9. Many are likely dead or nearing it.
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  10. That song he sang was "Body Bags" written by his bandmate Matt Lewis but later made more famous by Saigon Kick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=M8ZKoqI8CUU&feature=emb_logo
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  11. I'd be interested to see what happened to many of these students as life progressed for them. I wonder if Vietnam impacted many of them. Too bad there isn't a follow up available.
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  12. Quit cold turkey December 31, 2004. Never looked back.
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  13.  J D  No, in fact I'm not. I very clearly understand his message; it's the idiosyncrasies to which I pay attention. He uses terminology that is on the one hand dismissive while speaking about injustice. It suggests a level of cognitive dissonance that he battled internally.
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  14. No, actually he's the lead singer of Weapons.
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  15. That looks like it is some type of viscera or offal....like some kind of innards. It makes me kind of queasy. ;)
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  16. Watch some black "reactors" on youtube who watch a song from say, Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the Moon" and then say they've never heard it before when it's the the fourth most selling album of all time. This isn't a racist thing, it's a cultural thing. Not every black listens to metal or rock and not every white listens to rap or R&B. People are too quick to assume nefarious intent.
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  17. The problem is we were forced to go regardless.
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  18. I think that was his point. Of course looks attract, but he was talking about how little actual feeling was invested at the expense of the other's feelings.
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  19. Interestingly, The Buggles' version of "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first music video aired on MTV at 12:01 a.m., on August 1, 1981. That song started it all off.
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  20. I started writing my reports in Word and printing them to deliver to the client and to also have a hard copy in the case file. Now I just leave the report on Word and email them to the client as a pdf or Word file. I don't even keep a hard copy in the file. I save time and a fortune on paper. Far less clutter.
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  21. They were on target with what people would want to control but too early and cumbersome.
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  22. Saigon Kick performs the song he sang in this video. Edwin is the lead singer for Weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=M8ZKoqI8CUU&feature=emb_logo
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  23.  @belamoure  I see an animated Disney movie in the works.
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  24.  @janetjoiner9204  Really? No, they aren't. The founders specifically talk about violence often. You're a member of a group and don't know their intent? Interesting.
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  25.  @dorkmax7073  "Give black people their rights or we will burn this country to the ground" - Black Lives Matter NY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZEulL30vdY
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  26. It is amazing to me how young she looked for being a century old. Amazing.
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  27. That was really touching, but I have to ask if no one else will...is she a dude?
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  28. No Weapons. Saigon Kick performs one of their songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=M8ZKoqI8CUU&feature=emb_logo
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  29. Most of them are running the companies that won't hire you because you're lazy and want to pretend you're a chick when you're a dude..
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  30. One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something, you're just changing something. So in order to create something, you first have to be able to create nothing. To make sure a person doesn't find out who they are, convince them that they can't really make anything disappear. All that's left then is to resist, solve, fix, help or change things. That's trying to create something out of something.
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  31. It all came down to your draft number and whether you could afford college to avoid a war. No 18 year old I knew wanted to be involved in this nonsense.
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  32. Thanks so much for reminding me of this brief moment in history. I used to love to go to Blockbuster to pick out the movie for the night. Nothing like when there was just one copy left of that movie that had just been released and I was there to grab it.
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  33. Oppenheimer talks like Mr. Rogers. 2:39
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  34.  @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker  David, read this article. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vietnam-war
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  35. I saw them already David. You did a vid. I found them today. They are still around. I posted in your other video.
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  36.  @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker My bad, different kid ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litMpUw3Wu4
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  37.  @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker  I watch all your stuff. ;)
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  38.  @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker  Ah. I knew he looked familiar.
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  39.  @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker  I actually searched them out after i watched the last vid. It was interesting to see what they've done since back then. BTW. you're gifted dude. i really enjoy your stuff.
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  40. That video of that small town straight out of the movie "Pleasantville" was eye opening. I'd love to see what happened to those wide-eyed kids.
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  41. Frankly, I appreciate the heart because I know you read what I wrote. When i comment, I'm commenting to you. So I appreciate it. (I let the ad run here).
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  42. I enjoyed that and I've subscribed. Awaiting more stories.
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  43. Well done David.
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  44. How prophetic. Thank's David. Another good one.
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  45. I grateful for your channel.
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  46. David, stop apologizing for being a Boomer. It's the greatest generation. I wasn't born in the 50s, I was born in the 60s, so my generation basically came to adulthood in the 80s (what a time to be alive). I had an entirely different experience than early Boomers but I'm still considered a Boomer. I wasn't as serious as the first generation Boomers, I'm much more in line with Gen X. We had it better than the early Boomers, we also kind of destroyed that 50s nonsense and we were about money and Wall Street, the Reagan years. Nowadays these snowflakes think you can make up whatever gender you want, like it's some fluid thing. The youth today think they are OWED something. You aren't OWED anything. Go and get yours. I mean it kids....Go and get yours! No one is going to give it to you.
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  47.  J D  I'm not trying to "get" anywhere. I have no investment in whether you are racist or aren't or he is racist or isn't. I don't care about society's "progression". I don't have any investment in how or what you think (the general you).
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  48.  J D  In life, understanding is the booby prize.
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  49.  @bobs1474  I was talking about the interviewer. He missed a lot of opportunities like when she said you have to rely on your leaders and instead of exploring that gem he went right back to "So compare today's technology to the time you were growing up". he had an agenda and she offered so many opportunities to explore where she was going, not where he wanted to go.
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  50. What's funny to me is they said he was dosed with about three times the normal dosage. In 1970, the marijuana THC content was comically less than it is by today's standards. "According to an article from 2017, published in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, the THC concentration in cannabis 50 years ago (1973) was less than 3%. On the other hand, the current THC levels of some weed strains are more than 30%." Testing THC levels was done differently in the 70s, (gas chromatography vs.liquid chromatography), but even so, weed was a lot less potent then.
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  51. quit being a victim. stop it.
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  52.  @futureworldx6421  you are an antiquated scab from our past. We've scratched you off our arm and let you fall to the gutter. Stop pretending anyone is doing you wrong. YOU are doing you wrong, not society or the white man. Buck up soldier. Buck up pussy.
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  53. Rorschach would have an interest in you.
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  54. Well done again David. It's so odd to watch the infancy of speech recognition when we have moved so far past that in such a short time. Now we just have to look at our phone to do things.
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  55. He's a renowned author and poet. Look up W. D. Ehrhart.
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  56. Every generation has blamed the one before it for societal ills. If I'm fucked up it's my fault, not my parents'. Victimhood is the evil of society.
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  57. underrated comment
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  58. Darrin Stephens (Dick York) wants to wear a sweater at 8:31.
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  59. The problem is that late boomers and genXers generally waited much later to have kids and as a result valued them way more than previous generations. I was thrown in the back of a station wagon with no seat belts but in the 80s and beyond it was the introduction of "Baby on Board" car window stickers warning other drivers they've got a precious baby in the car, so drive carefully around them. It was the start of "participation trophies" and not keeping score in a soccer match until a certain age so as to not damage the child's precious ego. People hired private psychologists to test kids for GATE membership to assure their involvement. It is the parents' fault that we created a generation of people who feel entitled. They seem to feel they are owed a good life because we didn't prepare them for life challenges. We suggested it was okay to be mediocre and you'll be taken care of. That is why we are seeing a movement toward socialism. They feel it is okay to take from the rich and spread the wealth around to those who didn't earn it.
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  60. Here's a photo (second from left) https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/1146923_490031791082680_696849083_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=a61e81&_nc_oc=AQn6-DXP6YGU4wufinaIHwtnCPEdpJSJjEImcmeLDzSXbe0Rl7_WrltDJBdjAkAYkZKeWGx_E_NXaKdk0P6_GLdG&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=dcf05121357d911585a96ffd4f1b91c3&oe=5EBE3B4D
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