I remember, right around 1964, my father coming back from a business trip to Japan, bringing back a new-fangled thingy call 'a Japanese Radio'. (I didn't get that it was Japanese because it was made in Japan... I just thought it was a Japanese radio). Radios were ususally in pretty big boxes then, so something that small was pretty amazing. I remember Dad proudly claiming that it was '7 transistors', which was way cool (having absolutely no idea what a transistor was). I guess the one pictured is 6 transistors. For my birthday some years later, I got a 10 transistor radio. Imagine that. TEN transistors.
In my grandmothers lifetime, she saw the telegraph, telephone, car, radio and TV come into usage... not to mention ELECTRICITY. My generation saw COLOR TV through the computer, so that's really cool. I wonder what our kids will see. I have to think 'the transporter room' is next.
[4] I am back, yes. I did indeed take a walk on the Royal Mile! It was very, very foggy (not atypical, of course), so I didn't hike up Arthur's Seat, which I'd planned to do. But (as I mentioned in an earlier thread) I brought home some Glen Morangie. Duty Free (not sure how much that saved, actually), and a good souvenir.
The traveling part did suck a lot, though. Continental Airlines is now on my shit list.
Well, you mean the stuff still to come? I'll tell you what my kids simply cannot believe didn't exist in my childhood: personal computers. ("But how did you surf the web, then? There were no iPhones, right? Did you all have Blackberries?")
Thank you for the memories. I didn't know or didn't remember the rhubarb. I certainly remember the fourth no-no.
Pure poetry. Anyone who doesn't listen to both calls in their entirety has missed a chance to understand how great Scully is and why it is more important to be a baseball fan than to just root for a team or two.
Happy 4th. Read the Declaration of Independence before eating dogs and burgers.
Actually what we will see, which will be truly scary and dangerous is genetic and biological engineering. And some people thought computers were scary.
I like rhubarb pie!
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Cervelli catching Carsten Charles. Posada sitting. Cano back to 5-hole.
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Matsui DH
Cabrera CF
Cervelli C
Sabathia against the M's.
If we lose this one, there's gonna be some squawking.
Uh, knock on wood.
[3] i won't be around tonight to squawk! (i think we'll be okay...)
i believe you're back Stateside. if so, hope you had a wonderful trip! did you see the Royal Mile?
Eight would be great... again!
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[6] but not enough!
nine is fine. ten is zen. eleven is heaven. (uh, i think i have somewhere to be now...)
[6] should link to [5]
obviously, i'm late to avoid rhyming with twelve!
(delve, shelve, elv...)
Cano at the 5 spot is a big mistake. How many times will Arod be walked today? And then how many DPs will Cano promptly hit after?
I put the over/under at 2.
I remember, right around 1964, my father coming back from a business trip to Japan, bringing back a new-fangled thingy call 'a Japanese Radio'. (I didn't get that it was Japanese because it was made in Japan... I just thought it was a Japanese radio). Radios were ususally in pretty big boxes then, so something that small was pretty amazing. I remember Dad proudly claiming that it was '7 transistors', which was way cool (having absolutely no idea what a transistor was). I guess the one pictured is 6 transistors. For my birthday some years later, I got a 10 transistor radio. Imagine that. TEN transistors.
In my grandmothers lifetime, she saw the telegraph, telephone, car, radio and TV come into usage... not to mention ELECTRICITY. My generation saw COLOR TV through the computer, so that's really cool. I wonder what our kids will see. I have to think 'the transporter room' is next.
Twelvis is Elvis?
(Let it end here).
[7] "elv"
LOL @ another Lupica joke...
You know I love 'em, intended or otherwise!
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k-rod just blew a save. buccos tied it up at 8 in the bottom of the 9th.
[9] "I wonder what our kids will see."
Twittering to their idiot friends, "I'm on the subway now." or "I'm taking a shit." needs a bit of work, wouldn't you agree?
/George Carlin rant off
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"I wonder what our kids will see. I have to think ‘the transporter room’ is next."
[9] Or absolute societal and ecological collapse... ;-)
[4] I am back, yes. I did indeed take a walk on the Royal Mile! It was very, very foggy (not atypical, of course), so I didn't hike up Arthur's Seat, which I'd planned to do. But (as I mentioned in an earlier thread) I brought home some Glen Morangie. Duty Free (not sure how much that saved, actually), and a good souvenir.
The traveling part did suck a lot, though. Continental Airlines is now on my shit list.
"Wonder what our kids will see..."
Well, you mean the stuff still to come? I'll tell you what my kids simply cannot believe didn't exist in my childhood: personal computers. ("But how did you surf the web, then? There were no iPhones, right? Did you all have Blackberries?")
As for the future (say a decade from now), I wouldn't try to predict anything specific. But I bet the next huge thing will involve embedded systems.
[16] LOL!
"Send it all in a letter, to yourself."
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[17] Thank God you "make time for nostalgia" RYI, 18 year-old scotch notwithstanding...
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Thank you for the memories. I didn't know or didn't remember the rhubarb. I certainly remember the fourth no-no.
Pure poetry. Anyone who doesn't listen to both calls in their entirety has missed a chance to understand how great Scully is and why it is more important to be a baseball fan than to just root for a team or two.
Happy 4th. Read the Declaration of Independence before eating dogs and burgers.
Actually what we will see, which will be truly scary and dangerous is genetic and biological engineering. And some people thought computers were scary.
[21] "Actually what we will see, which will be truly scary and dangerous is genetic and biological engineering."
We are already seeing that, OYF. Flourescent critters ring a bell? How about the 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chalfie
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