Orwell’s 1984 prediction now seems like ancient history, but the Apple ad that played on the topic of the novel, was aired only one time and that was during the Super Bowl of that year, is still the most influential TV commercial in history!
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Thanks for the Memories!
From left, Don Knotts, Ron Howard and Andy Griffith from “The Andy Griffith Show.”
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Steve Jobs, 1990 Interview – PBS NOVA
This interview was conducted on May 14, 1990 for the PBS series, NOVA. It is one of the few interviews he ever allowed. It was recorded with Sony “betacam” technology.
Continue readingBefore there was a North Myrtle Beach
Our first trip to the beach as a family was in the summer of 1965. We lived in Poplar Apartments in Durham, NC in those days. Dad was in Duke medical school, Mom was a second-grade schoolteacher at Lakewood Elementary, I was about to start the first grade and Kim was still four years preconceived.
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Images from days of yore in my hometown, recently appeared in the Local News Weblog:
“Lost Muncie”
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Twenty-Five Years Later …
They were very happy times. Nikki and I had just returned from our trip out west the first week of September. We covered several thousand miles camping at Mesa Verde, Bryce Canyon and the north rim of the Grand Canyon. We then proceeded to our next campsite at a hotel in Vegas for three days and three nights where we won a lot, lost more, but had a good time. We decided to continue to the west coast where we stayed a night in Beverly Hills, then on to Phoenix where we celebrated my twenty-sixth birthday with a few strangers that became friends for that evening. Finally, on to Albuquerque for one night and then back home to “Big D” to gear up for work following a couple weeks of well-deserved vacation. It turned out to be even more enjoyable than the previous year’s trip to Cancun.
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