Pinball for Engineers
All I can say is, AMAZING!!! I wonder how much time it took to make this thing work properly. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqBnqc3HUs&w=850&h=478]
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Entertainment
Gabby Hays, Sans Beard
Baby Boomers like me spent many hours before their black and white TVs watching Western during our youth, which prompted a previous blog title, “My Heroes Were Cowboys.” One of the best cowboy stars’ favorite sidekicks was Gabby Hays, whose appearance and voice made us love him. What I had never seen before just now
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Dragnet
This was the first episode of the television show Dragnet, which originally aired December 14, 1951 when I was about to turn 8-years old. Via regular broadcast TV or via online streaming, I have probably seen every episode of Dragnet. In it, Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb), Sergeant Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough), and Chief of
45 Western Stars
I remember almost every one of these “Old Western” actors. Front row: Dewey Martin, Johnny Crawford (in tennis clothes), Chuck Connors, Glen Ford, Alan Hale Jr., Henry Darrow, Larry Storch, Neville Brand, Second row: Denver Pyle, Iron Eyes Cody, Harry Lauter, Jeanette Nolan, Linda Cristal, John Ireland, Mark Slade, Joe Bowman, Fred Putnam, 3rd row:
Reflections Of A Baby Boomer
Author Unknown I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name I’ve gone to Kansas City, and I sang in the sunshine I’ve been on the road again, with Georgia on my mind Like a rolling stone, I’ve given peace a chance I put a camel
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