{"id":292,"date":"2006-09-24T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T22:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/09\/24\/the-big-two-oh\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T22:06:59","slug":"the-big-two-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"The Big Two-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article may be misleading, when I talk about two-oh I don&#8217;t mean (Web) 2.0, I mean twenty, my age as of today. It&#8217;s a nice round number but that&#8217;s about all this birthday has going for it. Honestly, I can see why people stop looking forward to their birthdays as life goes on.<\/p>\n<h2>Twenty is a tease<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to sound so cynical, I&#8217;m just making a point: 20 is useless. I thought 19 was bad but 20 is a total tease. It doesn&#8217;t help when everyone I associate with is at least 21 if not 22 or older. Even the other day I was quickly reminded how terrible this is. When asking about tips for a first date it was recommended I take someone to get a drink.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, maybe a rum and coke. She&#8217;ll get the rum, I&#8217;ll drink the coke.<\/p>\n<h2>Reflections<\/h2>\n<p>But, thats not to say the last year (and the year to come) are all that bad. Since my last birthday I&#8217;ve certainly changed. I&#8217;ve been the Vice President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuakpsi.com\/\">AKPsi<\/a> which has taught me a lot. I co-founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yopos.com\">yopos<\/a> which has introduced me to so many people I can&#8217;t even begin to list them. I&#8217;ve started my own webcomic, I&#8217;ve been on the Dean&#8217;s List again, I&#8217;ve joined Beta Gamma Sigma (honor society). I&#8217;ve held a number of jobs and learned a lot. I&#8217;ve even changed my major from Information Systems to Accounting.<\/p>\n<p>But it hasn&#8217;t all been good. I no longer talk to a close (ex girl-) friend. That&#8217;s certainly been a learning experience in itself. Not just about relationships or people but myself as well.<\/p>\n<p>But enough boring stuff. Thanks to everyone who left their best wishes. I&#8217;m thinking of doing a (semi) daily video log. Not to entertain necessairly but just so I have an archieve of me and life. We&#8217;ll see how that goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>365 and counting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PS: I still stand by <a href=\"http:\/\/paulstamatiou.com\/2006\/09\/24\/its-confirmed-amazon-unbox-disappoints\/\">my earlier comments<\/a> about Unbox and the iTunes Movie Store. <a href=\"http:\/\/paulstamatiou.com\/2006\/09\/24\/its-confirmed-amazon-unbox-disappoints\/\">Check this out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article may be misleading, when I talk about two-oh I don&#8217;t mean (Web) 2.0, I mean twenty, my age as of today. It&#8217;s a nice round number but that&#8217;s about all this birthday has going for it. Honestly, I can see why people stop looking forward to their birthdays as life goes on. Twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[585],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}