Archive for the 'This ‘n’ That' Category
Four Decades of Mobile Devices
Saturday, May 26th, 2012Computerworld offers up a gallery. Anyone else remember Microvision?
Watch It Wednesday
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012Let’s go bowling … with the original Candid Camera.
Watch It Wednesday
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012American Pop is a generally underrated piece of animation that was ahead of its time when it was released in 1981. It attempts, with more success than you might expect, to cram nearly a century of American music history and context into 96 minutes. Here’s the trailer.
Happy Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 13th, 2012Here are 11 quotes for the day, courtesy of Psychology Today, including this one from Washington Irving:
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”