Want to feel old? Read/listen to this.
Granted, you already knew instinctively that the world has moved on. Some technologies we grew up with are gone. Hell, some that came into being in our lifetimes have exceeded their shelf lives.
But still, it kind of stings, doesn’t it?
Bonus NPR interview on the subject.
There are a fair amount of articles I never posted due to either time constraints or the blog being down during the move.
Here is one concerning the dawn of the internet.
Enjoy.
As with any piece of technology, there are times when a CFL bulb should and should NOT be used.
Read this and check accordingly.
Some good news on the future survival of the Tasmanian Devil. When we were down that way we went to a research site where they were hoping to find a cure for a cancer that is ravaging the little beasts. Apparently nature is finding a way. Good luck to the dangerous little guys and gals.
They are cute in that “oh what a cute little vicious carnivore” kind of way. You’d have to set ’em to understand that I think.
Mo Rocca visits a Steampunk festival and does a pretty good job explaining the scene.
Not sure how I missed this interview/DJ set but I am entertaining myself by giving it a solid listen this morning.
You, too, can enjoy it as well.
The magic and horror and humor of Catch-22 is 50 years old today. Read it if you haven’t already. And read it again if you have.
The Maus books were the first ones to show me what you really could do with cartoons to tell a gripping story. Now there is a new book that tells the making of the classic.
Color me interested.
How do you go wrong with Dr. Seuss? I am looking forward to picking up this “new” book with stories most of us have never read.
This comes to mind as I have been having some unfriending issues online. Seems a lot of conservatives think it is cute to misquote Ted Geisel and other liberals, twisting their words or poetic forms to advocate mean spirited things, up to and including “jokes” about murdering certain black presidents of the United States.
Dr. Seuss had a lot of good lessons for our kids. NONE of them involved segregating others and advocating violence as good things to promote. Assassination as humor was never a thing or skeeches, loraxes, Whos, and just plain people.
It is odious to be that kind of person. And I am more than glad to separate myself from that ilk.
Continuing with the book posts today, a nice interview with Eric Carle and how he came to his approach to writing and art.
Just when you thought there was enough for the Nazis to atone for, you find out there is still much, much more.