Comments on Existence is Wonderful: The Move Goes Ever On and On

Congratulations Anne, it's a nice looking plac...

2009-08-03T23:39:47.339-07:00

Congratulations Anne, it's a nice looking place. "Our Friend The Atom"... you made me choke on my coffee, now I need a new keyboard!

> [Y]es, there is an entry for a TV set with &g...

2009-08-03T19:41:26.702-07:00

> [Y]es, there is an entry for a TV set with
> legs. I guess the idea was that you'd be
> able to watch MTV on it and it would
> "gyrate to the music" or something.

Oh, you mean legs that actually **move**!

I'm old enough to remember a time when lots of TVs had legs -- the days when they were considered to be pieces of furniture. I guess it was thought that was the only way the lady of the house would allow such a thing into the living room.

Then sometime in the late 70s - early 80s the "videophile" was invented (analogous to the "audiophile"), and along with projection TVs came high-end "monitors" -- TV sets without the cabinetry, whose tuner was likely to be in a separate box, and claiming picture quality comparable to the professional monitors a broadcast TV station would use. Very high contrast picture tubes they had, with deep blacks.

I've always thought hardwood cabinetry was silly, and preferred bare-nekkid black monitors, but then I suppose some people would consider me a philistine anyway. ;->

(I saw Star Trek premiere on a Zenith furniture-style color TV my parents bought just that summer, mere weeks before the '66 fall TV season began. I have never, as an adult, owned a TV like that.)

Lindsay: Oh, the actual "fitting the b...

2009-07-31T21:14:01.377-07:00

Lindsay: Oh, the actual "fitting the books into the packing containers" isn't something I particularly struggle with -- it's just that unless the books are in Chinese or some other language I don't know I am liable to sit there in a pile of them reading them rather than actually packing them!

And re. the hair in the picture: ha, thanks, I was just sort of absurdly pleased that I actually managed to get the pigtails even! I've been attempting that for years (whenever my hair's been long enough) but they always came out looking like I'd got my head caught in a fan. Not sure what changed things this time, possibly my current haircut is just more conducive to pigtailability.

Lactarius: (Your name/alias keeps making me...

2009-07-31T21:10:32.235-07:00

Lactarius: (Your name/alias keeps making me think of a superhero whose power is based on milk!) - whoah, I'd not heard of the Prelinger Library but I'm definitely always pleased to have additional sources for books (digital or otherwise). I've gotten some interesting stuff from Project Gutenberg, etc., already (my iPod Touch presently contains both the complete Brothers Grimm and the complete works of Shakespeare).

I'm pretty good at packing books; it's lik...

2009-07-31T14:59:04.270-07:00

I'm pretty good at packing books; it's like a 3-D puzzle to use up as much of the space inside the box as possible!

I can get really "into" packing for that reason...

(It also typically results in boxes/suitcases only I can lift! My comic book collection, when it's all in its box, weighs about fifty pounds :) )

Also, your hair is adorable in that picture. You must just be a very cute person, because every time you post a picture of yourself I am amazed at your current or former cuteness!

Especially not the Prelinger Library.