Welp, we seem to be slowly getting there. This is what AT&T told us a mobile phone would look like back in the ‘50s.

No one loves dogs more than I; I’ve had many beloved canine companions. However, dogs are as they are because we made them that way. For at least the last 50,000 years people have been selectively breeding dogs for obedience, loyalty, affection and intelligence, and of course to differentiate them from wolves. Pups…

Man, I’m having a ‘60s flashback. I was around for many of the big protests back then, especially those in and around DC. I was an undergrad at the University of Maryland when the National Guard occupied the campus; there was an armed soldier on every street corner, and tear gas everywhere.

There was all sorts of…

Your selfies look weird because most of us look pretty weird. We’re used to seeing carefully selected, highly curated people on TV and in the movies who are very nice to look at; most of us, not so much. I used to photograph weddings for friends and friends of friends, but I don’t any more. Someone, usually the bride…

Don’t worry... the murder hornets are going to take care of them.

“... spending billions of dollars in public funds on grand, extraterrestrial gestures.”

Three out of five Atlas launches failed in the months before John Glenn’s flight. He rolled those dice, and rode the rocket into history. Those guys had The Right Stuff™.

Came here for this, not disappointed. If I had a time machine...

And as we all know, the Reaper drone can be quickly and seriously armed. Hell, let’s just name it Skynet and call it a day.

Ya’ got me. I even grew a corona-beard.

Hey, I found Waldo... !

Death, war, famine and now pestilence. Yep, we’re there.

Too much hair... !

One of my favorites.

I give them A for effort. Really, it’s as good as anyone could do today. However, the golden age Warner cartoons were of their time, a once-in-a-lifetime unplanned confluence of corporate inattention, adequate budget, and stellar genius writers, animators, artists, voice actors and musicians; we will never see their…

People have been breeding dogs for 50,000 years. Cats, on the other hand, were domesticated only about 3,000 years ago and have basically not changed. Your dog is intelligent, affectionate and obedient because people made them that way. Your cat is still a wild animal who just lives in your house.

Reader’s guide for young people: the women in the lead photo are keypunch operators, c. 1960. They read text and numerical data on paper and typed it into the machine, which punched the data onto cards for computer entry.

Friends did this in episode 0325 The One at the Beach.

As always, Buckaroo Banzai leads the way:

“... a telegraph machine that broadcasted calls from the ship as it sank.”