The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I mean by this is the chasm between what was promised and what we’ve got: the old “Where’s my jetpack?” meme. Or, “I wanted cars in tubes but all I’ve got is Twitter.” Yes,… Continue reading Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
Month: October 2019
To a Swell Dad
I’d kill to have someone give me a card that says, “To a Swell Dad – Handyman, You Fit the Bill.” This is from an ad for Gibson’s Cards, LIFE Magazine, June 15, 1953.
Let’s All Check Out Valerie Plame’s Hot Beach Body
Search results on Google and other search engines are either organic or not. Organic means that the results are supposedly raw and unfiltered. “Not” means paid or sponsored results. Yet even those organic results aren’t so organic and natural. At the very least, Google knows who you are, so it tailors results for you. What… Continue reading Let’s All Check Out Valerie Plame’s Hot Beach Body