Someone recently posed the question on Slashdot discussion forum. “What advice would you give to your 12 year old self?”
Most of the answers consisted of the nerdy “Register microsoft.com.” To the entrepreneurial “Buy stock, then sell in Jan. 2000….”
Me? I like to go philsophical. Even enduring….

• Have fun, kid. You only live once. Make the next few years the best. They’re the best years of your life.
• Don’t be in a hurry to grow up.
• Don’t be afraid of what people think of you. It’s something you can’t control.
• Live each day as a gift from God. Your life could be taken away in an instant.
• Pay more attention to old people. Especially your grandparents.
• Study, but don’t be too prude to have fun every once and a while.

More than likely I probably wouldn’t have listened. Some 27 year old guy who sorta looks like me – giving me advice. Yep. Where’s the nutty professor mumbling something about a Deloreon and 88 miles an hour?
Ok this is starting to sound like Baz Luhrman’s “Sunscreen” song…..