Growing up in the ‘50s, I was around for part of the golden age of Looney Tunes. From about 1944 until 1956 they produced some of the best cartoons ever made. Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Sylvester, Elmer, Sam and a few others formed a sort of repertory company that made simply brilliant cartoons. The high water mark was under…
Remember that people of my generation (old Boomers) were around for the very first video games. We were in our early 20s when they hit, and we were just barely old enough to afford them. I paid $100* for a Pong game, and was the wonder of the neighborhood; people came from all over to see it. Then a friend got an…
Like most people my age* I grew up in the home of a WWII vet. My dad served in the Pacific, and was in Japan during the occupation just after the war. I grew up hearing his stories of valor and fear, victory and defeat, and I played with a rifle, pistol and a samurai sword** he brought back with him; it’s a wonder I…
The lead photo puts me in mind of the car I grew up with, my dad’s ‘54 DeSoto. It was about two tons of Detroit iron, half of it chromed, with a 276 hemi that got 9 miles to the gallon and we didn’t care. It had an automatic transmission, but also had a clutch pedal, labeled “Safety Clutch”. You had to press it to put…
Just so we’re all on the same page here, the tv in the lead photo is a pre-2007 analog tv with only one input, a type F antenna jack. To make a modern device display on it, after you deal with connector conversion issues, you’ll need an RF modulator to put the video on a defined pre-digital VHF or UHF tv channel,…
I agree. My wife and I have seen it three times in the theater, and have also ordered the Blu Ray. It’s a terrific, feel-good movie.
Indeed. I wanted Patel to ask that version of John if he had ever been a musician, had ever written any songs. If the answer was No, it would have put a whole new spin on the movie’s premise. In that case, where did the songs come from?
“What we’ve got here is... failure to communicate.”
“...we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many other points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous... I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Umm... since this movie features Morgan Freeman, it is therefore a good movie, and I’m going to see it.
Back in the ‘60s Scientific American published a compilation of their Amateur Scientist projects in hardback form. These were real-deal science experiments, not kid stuff. One was a particle accelerator that ran on tens of thousands of volts. I still have my copy.
“...1966 Jerry Lewis sex comedy Way… Way Out...”
The final scenes in Halt and Catch Fire were set to Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill. The lyrics are so on-the-nose for Pace’s character that I wonder if they had that music in mind the whole time, and purposely built the show to that conclusion.
Saw Blinded By The Light. Excellent. Been listening to The Boss all weekend.
Fun facts: the TV set on the president’s desk is a Philco Predicta H3412L, and the microphone Steve is using is a Shure 520SL. It trouble me that my brain is full of stuff like this.
No need; I’ve still got my Zune. What more do you need?
No need; I’ve still got my Zune. What more do you need?
