I still remember clearly when I was 12 years old in July 20, 1969, watching the first moon landing on TV. I was in Germany then, so it was around 2:00am. I had special permission by my parents to stay up. Even as a 12-year-old I was aware that I was witnessing history, the first steps [...]
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U.S. Space Travel in 2012
Posted in Political, Science, Technology, tagged human space travel, moon landings, SpaceX, U.S. Space Program on May 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Boeing vs. Airbus – 40 Years of Trends
Posted in Commentaries, Technology on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Say I had told you in 1972, when almost all the world’s aircraft companies were in the U.S., all giants themselves: Boeing, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, McDonnell, Douglas, Hughes, Lear and the list goes on, that I wanted to start a new aircraft company that builds airliners. You would have told me I was crazy, out [...]
Rotary Phones
Posted in Crack-Ups, Technology on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A friend recently “babysat” a twelve-year-old. Somehow the subject of rotary phones came up. The girl didn’t know what a rotary phone was or looked like. When she described it and told her how it worked, the teenager asked: “But how did you text?”
Book Review: Steve Jobs – by Walter Isaacson
Posted in Books, Business, Cool People, Technology on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reading Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was inspiring and motivating on many levels. Out of 1142 Amazon reviews as of today, 690 are five stars, and 55 have one star. Half of the reviews with one star are off the mark. They don’t even review the book, but they rant about Jobs or Apple in some [...]
Why Yahoo! is in Decline
Posted in Bad Product, Technology on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I use Yahoo! very little, but somehow I go to Yahoo! movie showtimes to find out what movies are playing in my area. I noticed lately that the site no longer recognizes where I live or am located. I have no idea where Petorca is and why it shows that as my default. So I tried to fix that [...]
Businesses Snooping in our Lives
Posted in Business, Technology on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An angry man waltzed into a Target store outside Minneapolis and waved a flyer in front of the manager: “My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?” The manager didn’t [...]
German Car Navigation
Posted in Commentaries, Technology, Travels on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I rented a car in Germany. It was a middle of the line Mercedes C180. The navigation system, standard in the car, worked like our Garmins or Magellans here, except, of course, they spoke German. In addition, however, I noticed that when I was not actually navigating, the system tracked my position, showed [...]
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