I was stuck running on the treadmill yesterday so I decided to check out the Roku TV channel and I was not disappointed. The Six Million Dollar Man was on, followed up by Airwolf! Almost makes me want to get up at 4:30am every day. Almost.
Tag: 80s
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As much as kids get wrong about the 80s today, we must have driven our parents nuts on our thoughts of the 50s.
As much as kids get wrong about the 80s today, we must have driven our parents nuts on our thoughts of the 50s.
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Better late than never!
Break dancing gets Olympic status to debut at Paris Games in 2024
The International Olympic Committee’s pursuit of urban events to lure a younger audience saw street dance battles officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.
This would have been awesome in 1984. I wonder what Ozone and Turbo are up to today?
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🎶 These 80s remixes are my new favorite thing
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I can’t believe I’m just now hearing about The Hood Internet, an artist on Soundcloud. He has a ton of remixes, including an entire set based on each year of the 80s.
1984 has all of the feels:
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Don’t stop believing!
The boom box lives! I’m trying out my new Bluetooth cassette adapter, streaming 80s from my phone.
For some reason it doesn’t work plugged in, but does work on batteries.
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Bring on the robots – This Geek in Review for 11 Jan 2019
Technology gets a bad rap, and is blamed for a ton of society ills. But, that line of thinking just focuses on the negative. In Tokyo, technology is allowing a cafe to use robots controlled by paralyzed people.
First it was Space Invaders wrist, then it was Nintendo thumb. Now, we have selfie wrist. Think of the children!
Lawyers should leave technology to the professionals. Paul Manafort’s lawers attempted to redact information in a court filing by changing the background color of the text to black. Although this makes the text look like the information is redacted, in reality, anyone can highlight the “redacted” text, copy, and paste it into another document to read. And this isn’t the
first time.It looks good in the movies, I can’t believe it didn’t work:
This is the most disturbing looking iPhone charger that I have ever seen:
And, finally, some 80s bits of geekdom. First up is an auction for all 4 Cameros that were used in the Transformers movies. Unfortunately, they aren’t street legal.
Mark Hamill let us know that during the filming of Star Wars there was a record heatwave in England. Due to the heat, filming of the Death Star scene had most of the pilots wearing only the top-half of their costume, attacking the Death Star in shorts.
Check out this look of computer stores of the 70s and 80s. Once you’ve had your fill of the computer stores, you can see how computers were sold in the late 80s:
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Yes Virginia, Die Hard is a Christmas movie – This Geek in Review for 14 Dec 2018
The nets are raging this week over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Maybe people raged every year and I didn’t know. Anyway, is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Of course, someone had to survey people on this question, and the results overwhelmingly say that Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. Those people are wrong, and to prove it, we go to see what Christmas movies people stream and search for this time of year. A big thank you to the people in Washington, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Virginia, you are correct. For giggles, you can read Roger Ebert’s Die Hard review from 1988 and make your own Die Hard Christmas tree ornament.
Finally, the definitive proof that Die Hard is a Christmas movie:
Seeing Tom Cruise in a public service announcement seems uncharacteristic for him, and I’m sure he’s tilting at windmills. People still record vertical video and force quit their apps on the iPhone even though the first makes for a crappy viewing experience and there is overwhelming evidence against the second. I’m sure motion smoothing on TVs will be this century’s blinking 12:00.
Copyrights and the public domain
Back in the late 90s, half of a dynamic singing duo from the 70s was elected to Congress. Sonny Bono, from Sonny and Cher. While Cher became pretty famous, Sonny became a forgotten politician. His time in Congress was short lived after he died in a freak skiing accident. To honor him, a copyright extension bill that was making its way through Congress was renamed the Sonny Bono Copyright Act. The law extended copyrights for another 20 years, depriving us of works entering the public domain. Which means no works in 20 years has entered the public domain. The extension runs out on January 25, 2019, so the Creative Commons is having a party.
Scifi
Better Worlds looks like it’s going to be some awesome science fiction come the new year.
The 80s
Apparently, Chubby Checkers wasn’t afraid of attaching his name to anything, including singing a song for Dig Dug. Luckily, the recording has been found and uploaded to SoundCloud.
Betamaxmas is pure gold and awesomeness.
Now this is what I call a throwback:
And, in case you forgot about one of the first computerized fitness trainers, Puma is rereleasing its classic 1986 RS – Computer running shoe.
The Bumblebee trailer looks amazing, showing the live action Transformer movie we’ve wanted since the 1986 The Transformers: The Movie. The fact that it takes place in 1987 is icing on the cake. I am pumped.
Not the 80s, but still awesome.
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Walmart is my home now
Walmart has turned on the Arcade 1Up displays, so after school I can play arcade games!
The spinner for Tempest is terrible, but the game is still sort of playable. I set the high score, and it appears to save the high score even after the cabinet is turned off.
