Birthdays and yearly celebrations
This past weekend YouTube has been flakey for me. Not sure if it’s my slow DSL service or if the new MBP downloading updates in the background. It’s really glitchy, y’all. Thankfully, we’re coming close to the end of April and the end of the weekday musical coffee breaks. We’ve just got a couple more, but stick around — BrowserMetrics is rolling into its tenth year!
The Turner Classic Movies channel is celebrating 20 years. In honor of this you should take some time to watch a few classic movies that will be showing on the channel today. You should also spend some time watching it for the next month, because there will always be something good on.
It's one of my favorite channels. I would get rid of my television except for this channel.
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/968471|968322/Robert-Osborne-on-TCM-s-20th-Anniversary.html
Apple is celebrating 30 years of the Macintosh. It’s a neat site, because you participate by entering which was your first Mac and what did you do with it.
My first Mac was the PowerBook 140, the beginning of my fascination with their laptops. I’m planning to get their latest MacBook Pro with Retina Display, but I’m waiting for the right time. It seems like I’m always waiting for the right time with Apple.
After the PowerBook 140 came the PowerBook 190 five years later. Then came the TiBook another seven years during which I wanted but never could buy a desktop Mac. My first one was a Mac Mini… I’ll keep waiting and waiting for a better desktop…
Here’s to another 30 more years of the Mac and to Apple.
Fireworks provided by Heijmans via Creative Commons
I’ll be remiss if I don’t mention that this blog is going on its tenth year. Hooray for me!
Link of the Day [9.11.12]
On this, the 11th anniversary of a terrible, terrible day, remember as you go to vote that it was a Republican president who ignored the warnings. It could've been stopped. It wasn't stopped because Bush was president. How much longer must you vote Republican before you realize that that party needs to be dissolved? They're evil and they lie; they have no business receiving your vote. None. Nada. Zip. They bungled the 00s.
Happy Birthday, USA! Don’t let those Confederate bastards let you down.
Has it been six years?
Yup. Today is BrowserMetrics’s birthday! Happy birthday to me!
I would like to thank all six of my readers. With all of you showing up two years into my blogging. It is nice to think that I’ve got someone reading at least. I know I’m worldwide, too.
Here’s to another six more.
I was sitting in the Common Room with an early free period. I think it was day 2 and Religion wasn’t schedule for then. I had just settled down on the couch with some friends when someone came from the library.
“The shuttle has exploded.”
“Bullshit.”
“They’re showing it on tv in the library.”
We got up, went to the library and watched. What a catastrophe! I remember the iconic plumes of the solid rocket boosters, twisting free from the wreckage. I remember them doing their death spiral down until self-detonation. I remember the rain of debris as they seemingly floated gently down to splash into the ocean.
Twenty years ago. Yet it is still vivid in memory. I have had a morbid fascination with that event ever since and have read lots on the subject. Things an engineer has to know. Murphy’s Law. Blind luck. Pure fate. The gods have spoken.
