Friday, April 8, 2011

Beware of retrocomputing

Commodore 64 computer (1982). Post processing:...Image via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  4 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Meṣora‘).

Today’s events:  Draw a Picture of a Bird Day, All is Ours Day, International Feng Shui Awareness Day.
    Today’s weird thing is the Commodore 64.  You may well ask why an ancient computer merits being the weird thing of the day.  And the answer is:  it is not.  According to “Commodore 64 Goes on Sale. Amiga, VIC-20 Coming Soon”, somebody actually has the audacity to resurrect ancient computers after a fashion. e.g., with 1-terabyte hard drives and 4 gigabytes of RAM, though with practically identical outsides, and sell them.  Enjoy, share the weirdness and nostalgia, Shabbath shalom, and let me know when this character puts out a modernized NeXT Cube running Mac OS X 10.7.

    ’Aharon/Aaron
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    Monday, April 4, 2011

    Beware of censors

    Greetings.

    Jewish date:   1 Nisan 5771 (evening) (Parashath Meṣora‘).

    Today’s events:  Hug a Newsman Day, School Librarian Day, Walk Around Things Day, Tell a Lie Day, National Repot your Plant Day, National Reading a Roadmap Day, International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action (UN).
      Today’s weird thing is “Prime Time TV Censorship”:

      funny graphs and charts

      The graph correctly notes the inconsistencies in TV censorship in the United States.  I am not clear how harmful seeing any of the things in the graph on TV really are, but the fairly lenient treatment violence gets is pretty odd.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

      ’Aharon/Aaron
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