1949 will ever be remembered as the year of silly putty. Everyone remembers where they were when that little toy store in New Haven, Connecticut, sold its first plastic egg shell of the stuff for one dollar American. I’m sure you also remember this was the year RCA first came out with vinyl 45 RPM […]
Month: January 2022
The other day my wife asked me something about my hip arthritis. “Hip arthritis”? I say. “Yeah,” she says and repeats her question. “I don’t have hip arthritis,” I say. “Of course you do,” she says. “Uh, it’s my hip. I think I’d know”. She gives me that look. “Don’t you remember going to PT […]
Ya gotta like 1947. The main story, of course, was Jackie Robinson, but there were other tasty items. Guess what this is -> Yes boy and girls, it’s the first ever computer bug. Literally. The crew of the Mark II computer at Harvard had a problem. It turned out to be a moth in Relay […]
The 1,946th year of the Common Era brought the world peace. Aside from the civil war in China. And the Jews, Arabs and Brits in Palestine. And the French and Viet Minh in Vietnam. And the Muslims and Hindus in India. But who’s counting? As with any year, there was old and new business. Various […]