Month: March 2022
Rufus Thomas
The inventor of the GIF has died of COVID-19
Tweets on state Supreme Court elections
Terrible New York Times headline
This is more accurate:
and there’s this:
another bad one
Remember Gateway 2000 computers?
Gateway 2000 was a computer company originally based in Iowa. They had very clever cow-based ads.
I bought my first Windows-based computer from them. It was in 1992. The CPU was a 486 DX2/66. The chip was so new it wasn’t even in their ads. I ordered over the phone. The computer had 4 MB of memory and a 120 MB hard drive. It had an internal modem. I am guessing it was 1200 baud. I paid $199 to upgrade from a 14″ monitor to a 15″ inch monitor. The best thing about it was the case. It was a huge tower – big enough to hold four hard drives – and it was made of metal, not plastic. It had two floppy disc drives. It didn’t have a sound card or CD-ROM drive. They weren’t standard then and I installed them myself later. I paid about $3,500 in 1992 dollars.
Gateway 2000 was cool. A friend and his family took a cross-country trip and stopped at the plant. They got a picture with Ted Waitt, the founder of Gateway 2000 who was in some of their ads.
I later got another desktop and laptop from them. The company moved to California and was later sold.
IndieWire’s 100 Greatest Horror Movies
More on COVID variant BA2
It seems unwise to drop all of the mask mandates when this infectious variant has arrived in the US. I know everyone is tired of the pandemic but I’m still wearing masks.
2.5 hour conversation on film directing
Could you drive the government broke by giving it money?
What would happen if thousands of people (or millions) sent the government a check for a dollar? They’d have to open it. They would have to cash it or send it back. I know they would spend more than a dollar to process it.
Maybe we should each send Putin a dollar to help ruin his regime.
Sad! 