If you remember having to add your own cup (!!) of sugar, you are really, really old. Oh, yeah.
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 5
Smokey and the Bandit? Rubber Duck? Convoy? If the above looks familiar, and any of those ring a bell, you are probably old. Or you are a long-haul trucker, and I apologize.
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 4
And, if you have ever used one for its original purpose, you are really old! For a while, the receptacle for these found new life as a source for 12V power for cell phones, radar detectors, CD players (!!), CB radios (!!!!!), and other electronic gear. But, over time, it turned out to be easier… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old. Part 4
Who really knows?
I ran across this today and it caused me to wonder how I would know if I were or were not a robot. If you created me and programmed me to be a robot who thinks he is human, wouldn’t you have skipped the self-awareness subroutine that made me question whether I was human? I… Continue reading Who really knows?
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 3
I am not sure if identifying this as a Rolodex® is what makes you old, or if it is that you know what a business card is, but if you correctly identified this as a Rolodex you are old for sure. For those of you who didn’t know what it was, it is what your… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old. Part 3
If you know what this is, you are old. Part 2
This was a big thing back in 1981. Western MicroData Enterprises Ltd. wrote Norad for the Apple ][ and I spent a bit of time saving the US from Russian nuclear missiles coming over the pole. Plus ça change…
Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.
This is a rerun from a few years ago, but it (re)amused me, so I figured I’d share. I ran across an old list of computer error messages written as haiku. (“Haiku”? “Haikus”? Whichever…) They continue to amuse me. The one I recalled was: A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. I went back to my hard… Continue reading Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.
If you know what this is, you are old… Part 1 of many?
This is the first of possibly many, “If you know what this is, you are old…” posts. These were the cat’s meow, the bee’s knees, the best thing since sliced bread (or pull-top beer), the jelly in the jelly-roll, and so on. Elephant Memory Systems 5 1/4″ single- or double-sided diskettes were just what you… Continue reading If you know what this is, you are old… Part 1 of many?
The existential row row row your boat
I was thinking this morning (insert <snort> here if you’d like) that the song Row Row Row Your Boat is the epitomy of existentialism. Consider this: Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream” – Traditional Nursery Rhyme “Row, row, row your boat” could well… Continue reading The existential row row row your boat
No school like the old school
Running Wizardry: The Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on an Apple ][e emulator is truly one of the fun things in life. There is no school, like the old school, after all! Of course, if you saw the above image, you knew you were in for an old school brouhaha. My advice is to… Continue reading No school like the old school