Today is Prue’s birthday, and I am hoping to arrange something very special for her. I’ve had a “Why didn’t I think of this before??” brainstorm.
Happy Prue Day!
Author: DOuG pRATt
Fried by the Bank Man
The future of investing in the summer of ’22.
At least he was right about having a big impact globally.
Last summer I glanced at that magazine ad for half a second and, seeing the word “crypto,” ignored it. This was what the kid said at that time. Four months later he was out of business.
July 6 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried, head of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, said he and his company still have a “few billion” on hand to shore up struggling firms that could further destabilize the digital asset industry, but that the worst of the liquidity crunch has likely passed.
Peanuts Props
Snoopy, aka Joe Cool, hanging out with the King of Cool, Steve McQueen in Bullitt.
Peanuts was everywhere in ’68!
Gay Grooming in OZ
The first gay reference seen by uncountable numbers of children.
Bank Notes
Like you, I’m not using cash very often anymore. Today I wanted cash for lunch with a group of former colleagues. The bank’s ATM kiosk plays an excellent selection of music. In the past I have heard ELO and Cheap Trick. Today while making an ATM withdrawal, I was treated to the Troggs.
Code in the Node
My first hands-on experience with networked, time-sharing computers was an introduction to BASIC programming in a math class I took in my freshman year of college. The programming was interesting but, I admit, it didn’t grab me the way the hardware setup did — teletype terminals connected to a remote data center over leased telephone lines.
Technology Review explains the background on how this educational initiative began, exposing students to the future that we live in today, and the directions the program took later.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/20/1071291/learn-to-code-legacy-new-projects-education/
By April 1971, the network encompassed 30 high schools and 20 colleges in New England, New York, and New Jersey. All an individual school needed to connect were a terminal and a telephone line linking the terminal with the mainframe on Dartmouth’s campus (often the greatest expense of participating in the network, at a time when long-distance phone calls were quite costly).