We were promised a paperless society by the technology gurus of the 1980s. It’s been over 30 years since IBM launched the concept of the desktop computer. It was going to revolutionize personal communication – even before the advent of the internet – and they were right. But that vision was gratuitously optimistic. I worked for the company that built the wiring systems for these beasts…back when they were the size of a gas furnace and ran on steam power and 47″ floppy discs containing 64k of memory. We were contracted to build about 150 wiring systems a week for their machines. I went to head office in Don Mills where they had motorized robotic pool tables shuttling CPU’s and 70 lb. Scare-o-Vision cathode driven monitors through a warehouse larger than Cape Canaveral. They were moving 10 of these units at a time…and over the course of a year they were selling less than 50,000 of these.
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ROCK, PAPER, SNIFFERS by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Beer, Bill Gates, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, computers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, five senses, Frampton Comes Alive, Gutenberg Bible, hearing, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Jetsons, Kindle, Magic markers, paperless, rec rooms, record collection, Skynet, Smartphones, smell, stale sex, Steve Jobs, Taste, technology, the sixth sense, touch, weed, Wozniak on November 2, 2020 by segariniPeter Works as the Ground Crew as His Friend Takes Flight
Posted in Opinion with tags Avro Arrow, Beer, Canadian Aviation Historical Society, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jan Zurakowski, John Lennon, McDonnell Douglas F-4E, Peter Montreuil, Peter Mossman, Robert Segarini, rye whisky on March 14, 2019 by segarini
This is a tough column to write, because I am saying goodbye to a very good friend.
Peter Mossman, a very talented visual artist, passed away last Saturday. Although my drawing skills are limited, I will try to use words to paint a picture of my friend, whom I first met in 1973 at a meeting of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society. I remember that he didn’t say a lot, but when he did speak, people tended to listen.
Peter and the Story of Lois – Part 2
Posted in Opinion with tags Beer, Billy Joel, Bovine Sex Club, Boz Scaggs, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Cherry Cola's, Chicago, CNE, CoCo, Darth, David Rourke, Don't Believe a Word I Say, earth wind and fire, Himalayan cat, IKEA, Louise Montreuil, Marlene Schuler, Pat Blythe, Peter Montreuil, Peter Mossman, Reg, Robert Segarini, St Michael's Hospital, Teresa Scott Coulter, Tim Hortons, Tova Feldschuh, Vader, Windsor on October 27, 2017 by segarini
It seemed like it took a week to do so, but the email finally loaded 😉.
Subject : Tova Feldschuh
Message: I miss you. Could we meet for coffee?
Roxanne Tellier – Hangover …
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Absolutely Fabulous, Alcohol, Amy Schumer, Beer, Bloody Caesar, Bob Segarini, Buster Keaton, champagne, DBAWIS, Dean Martin, FosterBrooks, hangover, Joe E. Lewis, Larry Miller, moderation, Red Skelton. Jackie Gleason, Roxanne Tellier, W.C. Fields, wine on July 24, 2016 by segarini
Our Fearless Leader has been known to encourage my love of champagne and taste for a Bloody Caesar..neither of which I normally drink, as they go right to my head. Next thing you know, I’m earnestly telling some hapless artist that I’d be delighted to pose nude, just as soon as I lose twenty pounds and reverse twenty years of living.
JAIMIE VERNON – TRUE NORTH GLUTEN FREE
Posted in Opinion with tags Aboriginal Day, assassination, Beer, Bob Segarini, Bobby Gimby, Bruce Cockburn, Canada Day, Canadian Music, CBC, Celine Dion, DBAWIS, Dieppe, Doggie style, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fete du Canada, FLQ, Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, Gordon Lightfoot, Hockey, Jaimie Vernon, Justin Bieber, Lockerbie, military, Nickelback, Ottawa, Parliament Hill, Peter Mansbridge, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, sex, Shania Twain, Sir John A. MacDonald, Snow, The Bells, The Five Bells, The Guess Who, The Trews, Tragically Hip, Vimy Ridge on October 25, 2014 by segarini
In the early morning aftermath of two tragic military assassinations in Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario this week America tuned in and saw a different kind of Canada.
JAIMIE VERNON – ROCK, PAPER, SNIFFERS
Posted in Opinion with tags Beer, Bill Gates, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, cave paintings, computers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, five senses, Frampton Comes Alive, Gutenberg Bible, hearing, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Jetsons, Kindle, Magic markers, paperless, rec rooms, record collection, Skynet, Smartphones, smell, stale sex, Steve Jobs, Taste, technology, the sixth sense, touch, weed, Wozniak on March 22, 2014 by segarini
Frank Gutch Jr: Beer That Sings, The Girls From the North Country, Antitrust and the Music Biz, and The Real Teen A Go Go (Plus notes and stuff…..)
Posted in Opinion with tags Beer, Dala, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, Indie Artists, Indie Music, music, Research Turtles on May 30, 2012 by segarini
When I was a kid, beer was that awful tasting stuff my dad drank out of a bottle or a can (which usually inhabited one hand, a cigarette inhabiting the other), that stuff which should have been pop or Kool-Aid but wasn’t. Later, it became the source of TV delight in the form of The Wednesday Night Fights and the Hamms bear, numerous jingles (from “What’ll ya have? Pabst Blue Ribbon!” to “Mabel! Black Label!” and beyond. High school years, it became the harbinger of Monday morning gossip about the Saturday night parties to which I was never invited (those bastards!). In college… well, in college, beer was everywhere. Funny how a few months can create a whole new world, isn’t it? Even later, beer (or ale) became an obsession. I didn’t drink it so much as support it in all of its different cultural subcategories.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 