My gem goes dark in a year...

[techempage]

I've made that reference in several places today, many have asked me what it is about. So, I'll let you, my LJ friends, answer.

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[thetaet]

It suddenly occurred to me (while making dinner, oddly) that you are now the age I was when we met.

[techempage]

Yup, we've known each other a decade, give or take...

[thetaet]

9 yrs. I joined Servo in '99, not too long after Cronan died.

Time flies.

[catling]

Ha, I made the same joke when I turned 30. :P

It's a Logan's Run reference. In their "utopia" everyone is young and beautiful and happy... until they turn 30, and their gems darken, and they go into the arena to get shot at by their younger friends.

I always loved that movie.

[techempage]

We showed it to vivvianne1 for her 30th birthday, she had not seen it before.

[pixelene]

30 ain't so bad.

[techempage]

I got another year still. ;)

[paradoxymoron]

Isn't that from Logan's Run, which I've STILL yet to see?

[techempage]

You are correct sir!

[paradoxymoron]

Happy birthday! *is running*