Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Had the sudden realization while reading that the expression "drop a dime" very obviously traces to calling in police tips from a payphone

Eric André is not the "Eric" who co-created _Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!_. I don't know. You'd think I would be like more aware of this stuff maybe? But I kind of thought, you know, David Lynch-inspired takes on Public Access shows broadcast on Adult Swim, I mean. I thought they were kind of the same show. Look I'm gonna be honest I'm looking at this list of Adult Swim shows debuting from 2010 onwards and I've never heard of any of these except for the "Joe Pera" one people seem to like and the show by those Nazis. To be honest I kinda go out of my way to avoid both Tim and Eric's stuff and Eric André's stuff. Anxiety of influence.

I did know that the cheez-a-riffic guitar line in the Top Gun theme was Steve Stevens.

Did NOT know, I mean

It’s “belay that order”, not “delay that order” (as heard in the Navy and old Star Trek episodes).

i don't think i ever knew that was joni mitchell in blackface on the cover of that album until this year. think i read about it on ilm first! forgot about it and then read about it again in a review of the new ann powers book. i've looked at the cover a million times and i don't think it ever registered.

there are flight map screens on the backs of airplane seats. who knew? that's cool.

i just saw obama's sister on t.v.! auma obama! i had no idea. she was protesting in kenya. and getting teargassed! had no idea he had a sister.

Some planes include nose cone cameras as part of the in-flight entertainment menu too! You can't see much tbh

I'd tease you guys, but I was the guy who showed up at the airport with a 5-page stapled itinerary folded into quarters in my pocket.

When I saw everyone else scanning bar codes from their phone (as Satan prophesied) to board the plane, I went O fuck, where is that darn email.

Bar code was probably somewhere inside the 5-page itinerary, now that I think about it.

the number of times I've lost a physical boarding pass between check-in and the gate is absurdly high. the main reason I finally moved over to doing it electronically.

Things I haven't learned even though I'm shockingly old: how long to hold the barcode on the ticket scanner for so the gate will open while some fierce airport employee glares at me.

I went through some Digital ID security line last week at LGA. I didn't even have to show them the boarding pass, just gave them my ID and they scanned my face. Creepy, but it's not like they don't already know everything about me before getting on the plane anyway.

I have yet to transition to electronic boarding passes. I also have to print out the QR codes for Amazon returns. I get jittery thinking about having to find these files on my phone at a critical time even though I know there is probably a smart easy way to go about it that doesn't involve wasting paper.

the number of times I've lost a physical boarding pass between check-in and the gate is absurdly high

Same. Got paged once at JFK cause I lot one while looking at duty free makeup. Panicked when I heard my name over the loudspeaker obv. I like the digital scanning things at the gates. Very futuristic.

I'm not typically an app guy, but if your airline has one, it makes boarding passes a lot easier.

I learned recently that the lyrics to Buffalo by Stump are not just a random selection of phrases but a character sketch of a couple of American tourists in London.

that the word Benelux comes from the names Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
I mean, of course it does. obviously. so why didn't I notice before?

is anyone talking about benelux these days?

...also means "good light" in Latin.

the number of times I've lost a physical boarding pass between check-in and the gate is absurdly high

Happened to me once, I went to the gate, explained, dude instantly printed out a new boarding pass! So I think as long as it's before boarding there's nowt to fear.

is anyone talking about benelux these days?

Yesterday, because we were playing Twilight Struggle.

hate trying to open an app which will invariably want to update and hope internet service works in a boarding line. taking a screen shot of the code beforehand = the way imo.

1.print your boarding pass
2.take a photo of that on your phone
3.print that out
4.scan that in and save it to your phone
5.send it in a message to the internet
6.get it printed onto a tshirt on redbubble
7. simply board plane with ease