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Thursday
Mar152012

Bring back Battle of the Network Stars

All day long I've had the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song in my head. Not apropos of anything, I just wanted to share.

We tease him a lot, 'cause we got him on the spot, welcome back...

Wednesday
Mar072012

Meet the new boss, same (name) as the old boss

iPad 2012

Of course I'm salivating over the gorgeous new iPad. It's everything I love about my iPad 2 plus more. Sign me up for new gadget goodness.

But what really struck me was that Apple didn't give it a number. It's not iPad 3. It's not iPad 2012. It's not iPad Home Premium 2: Electric Boogaloo. It's simply "the new iPad."

I dig it. I can see how that meshes with Apple's goal of simplicity, and I expect Apple to start ditching number suffixes across their product lines.

Speaking of lines: time for me to get into one for a new iPad. Gimme.

Friday
Feb032012

The future is then.

Introducing Apple II advertisement

And then one day, many years later, someone at Apple looked back at this ad and thought: "Hmmm, a turtleneck..."

Wednesday
Jan112012

Run! Run! Run!

I hunger!

--Sinistar, 1982

 

Argh, you cheating #$^@*&% video game, gimme back my quarter.

--Carrington, 1982 and a bit

Sunday
Jan082012

Cool cats and their computers

The Toronto archives are heaps o' fun to browse. And while browsing, I learned I will never be as cool as computer operators in the 1960s: