Seems like last night everyone in the free world got out their big zoom lenses and took pictures of the supermoon. As far as I could tell – especially for photographic purposes – there was no discernible difference between last night’s moon and any old full moon. I decided to capture the brightness rather than the size and scored this shot of the supermoon shining through the trees behind the house.
I bought a VCR for $18!
Now I can finally start coverting my VHS collection that spans as far back as 22 years and includes roughly 6 gazillion tapes.
That series of AT&T commercial from 1993 seems to be making the rounds again…
…along with people talking about how accurate the ‘predicitions’ are some 17 or 18 years later. (Damn! Was 1993 really that long ago? Kids graduating next year – and maybe the earliest ones this year – were born after Kurt Cobain died? Fuck, I’m old.)
It is fascinating to see how much of what was considered ‘futuristic’ then has come to be part of our everyday lives, but those are hardly predictions. Or at the very least they’re loaded ones coming from a company developing the tech – which I think is the greater point. It’s more commentary on how long it took those new technologies to go from concept/development/early stages to mainstream, everyday stuff.
Still is neat though. I remember those commercials like yesterday.
1993. 18 years ago!? Really!?
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