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 segariniRoxanne Tellier – The Long Road From Normal
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Amy Siskind, Big Brother. Justin Trudeau, Bill C51, Canada, Celebrity Apprentice, computers, Congress, CPAC, Daniel Dale, DBAWIS, Dear Leader, Harper, Jared Kushner, Keith Olbermann, Kim Jong Un, Michael Cohen, national emergency, New York Times, normal, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Robert Mueller, Russia, segarini, Tellier, The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year, The Resistance, Trump on March 3, 2019 by segarini
A long, long time ago, I used to play chess. Not very well, to be honest; I was probably a better backgammon player if anything. Or maybe I wasn’t all that great at either.
JAIMIE VERNON – YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags AMC, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cartier, City of Scarborough, computers, DBAWIS, Dick Tracy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Downtown, Fashion Mall, Heroes, Hiro, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Mad Men, paintball, Seiko, Seiko 2000, Seiko T-001, Seiko Time, Selectric, Sgt. Splatter, TTC, typewriter. Apple Watch, typist, Wingold, wiring harnesses, wristwatch, Xerox, Yurko on August 6, 2016 by segarini
My son’s been kicking back and chilling this summer having finished Grade 12. He didn’t want to start a post-secondary education until he could get his bearings, find a job, make some money and attack it without being tens of thousands of dollars in debt at the starting line. Currently, he’s enjoying hanging out with his friends before everyone scatters to the four winds in September. They decided this week to play paintball. The best facility in Toronto is Sgt. Splatter’s near Dufferin & Eglinton.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 