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Cairo.Ben always wanted to visit the piramids

  • Cairo.Ben always wanted to visit the piramids and there he was:staring at them wondering how would he go back to the hotel now that his guide had strangely vanished like sand from

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  • in front of the camel. Just a swirl of dust and then nothing. No matter. It seemed that the camel knew the way. Handing the camel with the valet, he headed into the lobby.

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  • Over by the dining room, he saw a Bedouin changing the sausage gravy station at the Comfort Inn complimentary breakfast. He walked up and said, "Do you have chicken fried steak

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  • In your pants?" Then he bagan reciting phone numbers andemail addresses of members of Parliment. Then he swept the floor of the Superdome. Then he began a pilgrimmage to

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  • a place where they knew how to tie their shoes, once and for all! Jokers, all of them! Heck, they didn't even know the phone numbers and email addresses of menbers of Parlament

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  • let alone how to program the time on a VCR. "I want to move away," he said, "to a country where they can perform simple calculus without breaking down and crying." He would move to

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  • Texas, which seceded after Texas Instruments created a GDP greater than most nations. "So, how do I use a TI-89?" he asked, unheard. After fumbling in its menu, he broke down and

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  • bought an Apple II+. Apple also seceded from the union and established a home land in Northern California. He had to travel through many technocracies to reach there. Amiga held

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  • her rifle point blank at Steve Job's forehead. 'I really, really HATE apples!" she said, and pushed the muzzle so hard it left a mark on his face. 'You should've done more for peng

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  • uin publishers. Job's looked puzzled. But I love them, I have all their classics. She looked at his shelves, nodded, apologized, and left, talking to Siri all the way home.

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2 Comments

  1. SlimWhitman Apr 19 2012 @ 12:04

    Byte Magazine 1994: "The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that almost nobody--including Commodore's marketing department--could fully articulate what it was all about. Today, it's obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those days it was derided as a game machine because few people grasped the importance of advanced graphics, sound, and video. Nine years later, vendors are still struggling to make systems that work like 1985 Amigas." It was used to generate effects for Max Headroom, by NASA to track low orbiting satellites, and for early multimedia work by artists and musicians with programs like LightWave and the VideoToaster board. My brother had one for a long time. It was awesome.

  2. Chaz Apr 19 2012 @ 13:06

    For my college senior art project in 1990, I used an Amiga to animate 2-d drawings. Some of the best fun I had with a computer. (I am old.)

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