Overheard, The Future of the Home Computer

Cabbie: Are you going this way? I'm not turning around!
Chick: What the..? I'm not hitchhiking, I'm fucking paying you, and if I tell you to turn around you damn well better turn around!

He drives away.

Chick: Yeah, fuck you too, cunty Mr. Crack Whore.
Hipster guy: Lady, you need therapy.
Chick: Man, you need to stop sucking dick. And a haircut.

--34th & 7th


unfortunately, it was not i who overheard this exchange. i stole it off of overheardinnewyork.com, which is arguably the best and most addicting freakshow website this side of craigslist.



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switching gears, my mom sent me the picture below in an email today. it's from an issue of Popular Mechanics magazine in 1954:

the text below the picture reads: Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrage how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.

i find this photograph hilarious. especially since my entire job is based on computers. if it weren't for computers, i'd be unemployed...or at least doing something else. according to the US Census in 2003, 62% of American Households had computers. in 1984, the proportion of households with a computer was 8%.

8%

my, have we come a long way.