Here’s a ‘funny I got through on email…

“Dear Mrs. Jones,
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn’t show me dancing around a pole. It’s supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Smith“

With the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh computer coming up on January 24th, 2009, I thought I’d reflect on the first Mac I used and my current Mac. Both are pictured above. The first Mac I used was a Macintosh Plus back in 1986. I was at college back then and I think it took most of the Graphic Design departments yearly budget to buy 2 of the damned things. It did however start my love affair with Apple, since then I’ve been a Mac evangelist and never had any other PC right up to and including the present where I currently have 5 Macs in various forms.

The first ‘project’ I undertook on the Mac Plus was an origami assignment, a pictorial ‘how to’ fold an origami box. Most of the work was done in Macpaint, the Apple precursor to photoshop (screenshot below courtesy of Wikipedia) and printed out on a dot matrix printer. Truly revolutionary in my cocooned college world.

Now I have an iMac that could’ve probably run NASA back then but I’m doing pretty much the same thing, drawing pretty pictures on a computer screen.

Happy Birthday Mac

here’s looking forward to the next 25 years

The Harborough Mail this week posted a story about a UFO sighted from Great Bowden and asks the question “Is this a UFO?”. My answer to that would be, “YES” of course it is, because we cannot Identify it and it is flying. Maybe they should have asked, “Is this extraterrestrial?”, but I suppose this is implied by the word UFO as it’s taken on this meaning and lost the Unidentified Flying Object that it was originally used for.

This leads me to wonder when does an object become a UFO and who deems it so? This is an extract from wikipeadia…

Some, such as the USAF, who originally coined the term in 1952, define UFOs as only those objects remaining unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, while other definitions call something a UFO from the time it is first reported as being unidentified.

So this odd shaped object in the sky could indeed be called a UFO.