Comments on: Birthdays and happiness http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:12:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Matthew Simoneau http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-2812 Matthew Simoneau Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:16:55 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-2812 <a href="http://www.letrascanciones.org/jay-z/kingdom-come/30-something.php?l=en" rel="nofollow">30´s the new 20 nigga I´m so hot still, better broad better au-to-mo-bile.</a> Pop culture agrees with JMike. 30´s the new 20 nigga I´m so hot still, better broad better au-to-mo-bile.

Pop culture agrees with JMike.

]]> By: David Gordon http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1827 David Gordon Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:18:22 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1827 Hmm, perhaps there are two ages, especially now that we're living so much long. So that you peak at 24, bottom out at 42, peak again at 60 and hit bottom again (and finally) at 88. Consider the German novelist Theodor Fontane: no frustrated novelist, he simply began writing and publishing after his career in the post office ended, finally fulfilling the unbloomed promise of youth with six or seven major novels after 65 and a place in German literary history. I'm sure he hated his 40s, thinking his moment had passed, when in fact he flowered in youth and then again Hmm, perhaps there are two ages, especially now that we’re living so much long. So that you peak at 24, bottom out at 42, peak again at 60 and hit bottom again (and finally) at 88. Consider the German novelist Theodor Fontane: no frustrated novelist, he simply began writing and publishing after his career in the post office ended, finally fulfilling the unbloomed promise of youth with six or seven major novels after 65 and a place in German literary history. I’m sure he hated his 40s, thinking his moment had passed, when in fact he flowered in youth and then again

]]> By: Alan http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1657 Alan Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:52:46 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1657 Ned - Happy Birthday! Thought I'd let you know that this made me laugh out loud: "42 is about the time you realize that you aren't actually going to win the Nobel Prize, and so you might as well start enjoying what you've got. Please. The rest of us have known for years that you weren't going to win that prize." I have most of '07 to get through before I hit 42 myself...as for that "magical" age, I'd put it at 25. - Alan Ned -
Happy Birthday! Thought I’d let you know that this made me laugh out loud:

“42 is about the time you realize that you aren’t actually going to win the Nobel Prize, and so you might as well start enjoying what you’ve got. Please. The rest of us have known for years that you weren’t going to win that prize.”

I have most of ‘07 to get through before I hit 42 myself…as for that “magical” age, I’d put it at 25.
- Alan

]]> By: St. Frank http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1313 St. Frank Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:38:08 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1313 I think I have to agree with Ned...24 or 25 tops. It's still the carefree age where you might not really have a job/career yet, you still think you know everything, are immortal and can't fail. The World is still a new place, despite knowing everything, you haven't seen everything. No kids(maybe), no career(maybe)..As John Lennon said, "Oh that magic feeling, nowhere to go" Once when I was studying in Germany, I met a, what I thought of at the time, middle-aged man(He was probably 35). He was a blue-collar type, who, upon seeing my backpack, launched into a monologue about how great my life must be, no job, no mortgage payment, job, bills or wife. To him I was living the perfect life, and life only got worse as you aged and collected more responsibility and things. Maybe he was right....I just appreciated the free beer he gave me. I think I have to agree with Ned…24 or 25 tops. It’s still the carefree age where you might not really have a job/career yet, you still think you know everything, are immortal and can’t fail. The World is still a new place, despite knowing everything, you haven’t seen everything. No kids(maybe), no career(maybe)..As John Lennon said, “Oh that magic feeling, nowhere to go”

Once when I was studying in Germany, I met a, what I thought of at the time, middle-aged man(He was probably 35). He was a blue-collar type, who, upon seeing my backpack, launched into a monologue about how great my life must be, no job, no mortgage payment, job, bills or wife. To him I was living the perfect life, and life only got worse as you aged and collected more responsibility and things. Maybe he was right….I just appreciated the free beer he gave me.

]]> By: Mike http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1215 Mike Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:26:47 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1215 So: N := x(t )= x(t-1) + δ ? (I guess the subscripts are turned off...) So:

N := x(t )= x(t-1) + δ

?

(I guess the subscripts are turned off…)

]]> By: Mike http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1214 Mike Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:25:31 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1214 So: N := xt = xt-1 + δ ? So:

N := xt = xt-1 + δ

?

]]> By: JMike http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1188 JMike Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:51:10 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/12/birthdays-and-happiness.html#comment-1188 I think these days, the fixed point may actually be a little older, what with all the "<bigger number> is the new <smaller number>" rhetoric flying around out there. The ideal age may be more like 29 now. Now, on a different tack, when I saw that picture, the first thing it brought to my mind was a survey where they asked people of various ages what age they would like to be (I forget whether there was an explicit "if they were to be that age forever", or for a long time, or just for now, or whatever.) The fixed point there was somewhere around 38, if I recall correctly. Young kids wanted to be older kids, teenagers wanted to be in their early twenties, the 20-29 set wanted to be about 31, the 30-39 set wanted to be 37, the 40-49 set wanted to be 41, etc. Averaging it all out, people wanted to be closer to 38 than they are now. I think these days, the fixed point may actually be a little older, what with all the “<bigger number> is the new <smaller number>” rhetoric flying around out there. The ideal age may be more like 29 now.

Now, on a different tack, when I saw that picture, the first thing it brought to my mind was a survey where they asked people of various ages what age they would like to be (I forget whether there was an explicit “if they were to be that age forever”, or for a long time, or just for now, or whatever.)

The fixed point there was somewhere around 38, if I recall correctly. Young kids wanted to be older kids, teenagers wanted to be in their early twenties, the 20-29 set wanted to be about 31, the 30-39 set wanted to be 37, the 40-49 set wanted to be 41, etc. Averaging it all out, people wanted to be closer to 38 than they are now.

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