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I loved GeoWorks at the time, too. From what I remember, the dev tools were very difficult to use, and apps had to be coded in assembly language, so third-party apps never really took off.

Technical writer.

Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Only! Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Writing, editing, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torontowriter/ Email: jonathanacohen+hn@gmail.com

I remember reading about it in a book called "More Future Stuff" from 1991. Even the Amazon blurb mentions it:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0140145230/ref=dbs_a_def_rw...

"...edible food tape (to hold together those messy meals like burritos)..."

Windows Notepad. Simple, plain text. I've developed my own annotation and formatting system (CAPS for titles, single dashes for bullets, indented dashes for sub-bullets, triple-asterisks for follow-up, and so on). I've been using it since Windows 3.1.

I use Google Keep for shopping lists because of the checkbox functionality and sync to Android, but I expect to keep using Notepad until it's sunsetted.

Traveling through Paris in 1989 I met a guy who had a terminal at his place, and explained to me what a boon it was for gay guys to meet up with each other, socialize, and make friends. I have no doubt that gay men partly drove Minitel adoption (along with other technologies like group phone chat lines, dating apps, and so on).

Blogtrottr (https://blogtrottr.com/) still works for receiving emails when RSS feeds are updated, and many sites surprisingly still have them.

A long shot - I write fiction (see https://www.lavendertavern.com), if anyone's looking for a good storyteller.

In my day job I'm a technical and business writer, but my true passion is fiction. Who knows, maybe there's a kindred spirit out there.

According to an MS engineer, you will be able to sideload APKs to Windows, which solves the problem for any app that doesn't need GMS:

https://twitter.com/ajonoguy/status/1408221001951809539

In David Lodge's novel, "Small World," there's a great scene where one character chases another through a paternoster. The one being chased thinks that the compartment will flip over when it reaches the top, and comes down standing on his head!

Careful, some apps seem to rely on those animations. Uber, I've found, has issues displaying the location of the vehicle if I set them all to 0.0. No problem if I set them to 0.5.

It's a pity they never got to release their rollable phone. I hope another OEM launches one (Samsung? Google? Apple?).

And on the other hand, 1991 saw the release of a pen-based operating system and one of the early tablets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EO_Personal_Communicator

In this version Belloq's head explodes at the end...I thought that footage was lost to time!? It's strange to see it in such pristine quality.

A podcast of original gay fairytales called The Lavender Tavern (https://www.lavendertavern.com). I've written the first season myself. Launch date is February 1st.

Michael Apted directed two episodes of my favorite TV show, the wonderful sci-fi drama "My Life and Times." As someone else used the term, it was also 'temporally ambitious,' and I'm not surprised Apted was drawn to it, since it dealt with the same person in multiple time periods.

In the show, which only ran for 6 episodes in 1991 before getting cancelled, an old man in 2036 reflected on various events in his life (we saw events from the 1970s to the then-future turn of the millennium).

Apted directed the episode "Jessie," which I consider one of the finest half-hours of drama ever on television. You can see it on YouTube at:

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN4oe_JH4rw Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFczFwWAFE

The other episodes are worth a look, too.

I visited my father in a nursing home for years when his mild cognitive impairment had turned into full-blown dementia.

There was always at least one patient screaming to be let out, to go home, or that they were suffering in some way. Screaming the same thing, every ten seconds. Hour after hour.

One shouted "Please!" "Please!" over and over again, in a piteous voice.

Those are the ones who still have some speech faculty left. While I know that many were either unaware of anything (like my father at the end), or lived in some pleasant accommodation, there were several who went through agony.

Another Ponzi-like scheme: "Lifetime."

The funniest thing was that people were convinced that you could cut more diodes (if only you knew which ones) and enable more hidden frequencies. They couldn't understand that this was a one-shot deal. I imagine there were quite a few that ended up destroying their scanners trying.

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Skills: Technical and marketing writing.

Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Office, light HTML.

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torontowriter/

Email: jonathanacohen@gmail.com

Kompozer (http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/) is what I recommend for creating simple pages or making quick updates.

The Flying Saucer restaurant in Niagara Falls has been around for 40 years serving great diner food. You can't tell very well from the photos, but the original design was shaped like a flying saucer, and the interior decor and menus are all themed.

Surprisingly, no mention of Cracker Jack's 3D lenticular images, which I remember as common in the 70s and 80s.

I'd imagine any kid from back then got at least one 3D photo of a gopher standing on its hind legs, with the admonition from other kids to squeeze the sides of the lenticular photo inwards so that the paper curved concave, to improve the 3D effect.

(Or maybe it was a marmot: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/doEAAOSwFpVbV73H/s-l1600.jpg)

Presaged eerily in 1981 by Michael Crichton's terrible movie "Looker":

https://youtu.be/2IZfSr891bE (warning, nudity)

Two additional scenes stand out:

1. The protagonist watches a prototype perfume commercial with eye-tracking glasses, and the computer ends up superimposing the closing logo over the part he watched the most often (this being 1981, I'm sure you can imagine...)

2. The implication that the computer can determine the 'perfect' poses and actions for optimal viewer response ("Not enough body twist according to the computer"), and the physical model having to contort herself to fit the ideal (you can see a few seconds of this at 0:39 in the trailer - https://youtu.be/yoT-r1slAZ4)

I wonder if they're doing this for the Surface Duo launch.

Do incomplete projects count?

I wrote 1/3 of a novel called "Distanced" - you can read it at https://1drv.ms/w/s!AhRJSX2EIeTqmohIQPPIaNr6TXMnnw?e=rwfXfE.

I've been using Zap and Zap Colors from this site for the past 15+ years: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

Happy to send you what I've got so far. :)

Thanks, it's 1/3rd done and then I got a bit overwhelmed by reality.

Writing a novel about a guy stuck in quarantine who falls in love with another guy across the city, but the only way they can communicate is through making shapes out of light strings and hanging them in their windows.

I had that same automated Microsoft Office test at a temp agency in the 1990s.

Funny thing, it had a bug. As long as you didn't let go of the mouse button, it would let you open and navigate all of the menus. So I simply browsed the menu UI until I found the correct choice. 100% score.