Why 1984 Won’t Be Like ’1984′
Twenty-five years ago today, Apple’s ’1984′ commercial broadcast.
Trifecta
Point one: A news story about a Darwin Award contender. Point two: great headline. Point three: horrid choice of ad banner (probably automatically generated).
Lost Finale Show-to-Commercial Ratio
It felt like we were getting about a 1:1 ratio of show to commercial, so starting a little before the halfway point of the two-hour program, I started jotting down when we’d switch from show to commercial.
Olympics Opening Ceremony
Good and bad points regarding the first 2/3 of the Opening Ceremonies for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.
Steelers take the Superbowl
Neither Prairie nor I really know much about football, and we don’t really care to know much. However, that didn’t stop us from kicking back and having a fun time watching the game and doing our own form of silly armchair quarterbacking.
