2009 A Year We'll Want to Forget
2009 was a terrible year for a lot of people. GM and Chrysler went bankrupt, sending tens of thousands out of work. Who could forget Bernie Madoff? The scammer who ripped off at least 20 billion dollars from prospective investors. Michael Jackson died, as did a whole bunch of celeb's like Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze.
If 2009 could be imagined to be a real object, it would be a steaming pile of dog shit, caught on the edge of your boots & refuses to budge no matter how hard you try to rub the shit off your shoes. People are under tension still, worried about their health and their jobs. I don't know a single person that hasn't either lost a job or knew someone who got the pink slip in 2009.
2009 was a milestone for me. I remember when I was 15 saying that 40 would be so ancient, so far away, I'd probably never make it that far down the road. Well, how wrong I was about that one. The smugness of youth, irrational and cocky, has been replaced with - what? A guarded but still young at heart old guy.
Do you remember using these computers during the 80's and early 90's?
The computer above is a Commodore 64 which came with 64 kilobytes of ram. It stored data on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks (about 170 kilobytes). The computer below is an Amiga 500 with 1 Megabyte of ram. It stored information on 3.5 inch floppies at 880kb per disk (or, 1.6mb if double-sided). The computer above cost $299 in 80's dollars (or, about $500 today) and the Amiga 500 cost $799 (1200 today's dollars).
Yesterday I walked into the Canadian Superstore and purchased two 4-Gigabyte SDHC memory cards for $10 per card. I can't tell you how much disks this would spread out to be. In 1988 I owned a 45 megabyte hard drive. Today I have over 2,000 Gigabytes of hard drive storage alone. I also have 3 terrabytes of information stored on 600 dvd's. Seriously.
Have a great New Year and please DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.
Peace!
If 2009 could be imagined to be a real object, it would be a steaming pile of dog shit, caught on the edge of your boots & refuses to budge no matter how hard you try to rub the shit off your shoes. People are under tension still, worried about their health and their jobs. I don't know a single person that hasn't either lost a job or knew someone who got the pink slip in 2009.
2009 was a milestone for me. I remember when I was 15 saying that 40 would be so ancient, so far away, I'd probably never make it that far down the road. Well, how wrong I was about that one. The smugness of youth, irrational and cocky, has been replaced with - what? A guarded but still young at heart old guy.
Do you remember using these computers during the 80's and early 90's?
The computer above is a Commodore 64 which came with 64 kilobytes of ram. It stored data on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks (about 170 kilobytes). The computer below is an Amiga 500 with 1 Megabyte of ram. It stored information on 3.5 inch floppies at 880kb per disk (or, 1.6mb if double-sided). The computer above cost $299 in 80's dollars (or, about $500 today) and the Amiga 500 cost $799 (1200 today's dollars).
Yesterday I walked into the Canadian Superstore and purchased two 4-Gigabyte SDHC memory cards for $10 per card. I can't tell you how much disks this would spread out to be. In 1988 I owned a 45 megabyte hard drive. Today I have over 2,000 Gigabytes of hard drive storage alone. I also have 3 terrabytes of information stored on 600 dvd's. Seriously.
Have a great New Year and please DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.
Peace!
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