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dsgood - July 7th, 2009
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12:38 pm
[Link] | Thursday July 2, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
Andromeda Spaceways rejected "The Day After I Saved the Universe." Form rejection with "...we hope to hear from you in the future" and a market suggestion.
***To Walker Library.
"Walking along the closest equivalent Warsaw has to New York's Fifth Avenue one bright spring morning [in the early 1990s], I spotted what looked like an artist's canvas on a tripod outside the elegant Blikle Cafe...the Blikle display proudly announced the arrival of 'the New York breakfast' of smoked salmon, cream cheese and bagels. Expensive and exotic, the arrival of the New York branded bagel seemed to be just one more sign that borders really were coming down and that Poland was opening up to Western tastes." Maria Balinska, The Bagel: the surprising history of a modest bread. Yale University Press, 2008.
***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
July 3, 2009 Federal holiday.
***To the shopping center near Lake and Minnehaha.
Target had netbooks marked down to $200; the advertised special was $49.99 more. These were basic machines; but some of their features (webcams, for example) haven't always been considered basic.
Ten years from now, $50 might get you a useful new computer. (No, I'm not adjusting for inflation.) And my prediction may be too conservative.
Four-function calculators once cost hundreds of dollars. Today, calculators are sometimes on sale at two for two dollars.
*Back in the 1950s, I bought a computer kit from Edmund Scientific. BRAINIAC wasn't much by current standards; it could be hardwired to add, or to subtract, or to multiply, or to divide.
I never put the kit together. If I had, I'd able to brag about being a really early home computer user.
On to Aldi for groceries, and then home.
***I decided to see if KNOW had any news. (Like other "all news" radio stations, KNOW has commentary, talk shows, and other stuff I don't consider to be news.)
There was news: Sarah Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska. Her announcement came as a surprise to, among others, the Lieutenant Governor.
It would surprise me if Sarah Palin got a sex-change operation, became a liberal, or started making sense. I found her resignation unexpected, but not surprising.
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