@jerry-d

I have been irrevocably changed by Hollywood and couldn’t be the happier for it. Before “May the 4th Be With You” became a thing that some would celebrate, I was a Star Wars fan. I was too young to see Lucas’s original trilogy in the theaters, but I saw them on TV afterwards and rented the VHS tapes from Blockbuster over and over again. A generation of teenage boys fell in love with Carrie Fisher after seeing her in the 1983 Return of the Jedi movie as “Slave Leia”. The very next year, James Cameron’s Terminator movie would come out. The year after that, two teenage boys would hack into a government mainframe and create Lisa in the movie, Weird Science. The Revenge of the Nerds movies would later characterize those who transitioned early to the brave new world of PCs as “geeks”. However, I knew even back then that my idiosyncratic penchant toward emerging technologies would gain steam and that proverbial train would start carrying more and more of us into the future. My professional career has been a joyride since my formative years and in some small part, I have the movies to thank for it. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that on Star Wars Day, I will respond to all “May the 4th Be With Yous” with the expected response “And Also With You.” 🙏 On my desk at work today:

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