Links with occasional stories
Sep. 30th, 2014 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI'm in Orlando for a work conference. Have some links while I'm offline, since I need to close tabs to make room for work-related stuff.
1. I share this memory of Pizza Hut so completely. When I was growing up, it wasn't a silly deliver-focused chain. It was what we'd call a "casual dining" restaurant today, like Chili's or Olive Garden. You'd walk in, get a table, order like real adults, etc. The pizza would come to your table in a cast iron pan, still flaming hot. It was so good, and such a better experience than what you have now (both in terms of flavor and experience).
2. There's am infrequently-updated website dedicated to classic calculators of the '80s. I went through a lot of devices like these (including some of the early pocket-organizer types). I even had a Casio Databank (although a slightly later generation). And I might have used some of the faux-organizers in high school to also store formulae for Calculus. Of course, that would have been wrong, so I'm merely throwing out a hypothetical. But yeah, loved these things almost as much as I loved the Game and Watch and other tech of the era.
3. It's an old piece, but I finally got around to reading FilmCritHulk's article on Guardians of the Galaxy and the art of constructing jokes. As with much of what FCH writes, it's a solid look at an element of story structure we often don't think about.
4. As an upper-middle-class Jewish kid growing up in New York, I had fond memories of family vacations at the Borscht Belt hotels, particularly the Concord. I first saw Jackie Mason there, spent hours playing games in their arcade, and played tennis with Vitas Gerulaitis (seriously). So the Ruins of the Borscht Belt slideshow and article is fascinating to me, as is the more recent follow-up in the Times.
5. I loved getting mail as a kid, and still do, now. So this article on the post office, written by someone who shared my love, is depressing as hell. From the management to the horrible laws restricting the organization, it's not a pretty site, but it's well worth reading all the way through to the conclusion (which is not, spoiler alert, to scrap the whole thing.).
1. I share this memory of Pizza Hut so completely. When I was growing up, it wasn't a silly deliver-focused chain. It was what we'd call a "casual dining" restaurant today, like Chili's or Olive Garden. You'd walk in, get a table, order like real adults, etc. The pizza would come to your table in a cast iron pan, still flaming hot. It was so good, and such a better experience than what you have now (both in terms of flavor and experience).
2. There's am infrequently-updated website dedicated to classic calculators of the '80s. I went through a lot of devices like these (including some of the early pocket-organizer types). I even had a Casio Databank (although a slightly later generation). And I might have used some of the faux-organizers in high school to also store formulae for Calculus. Of course, that would have been wrong, so I'm merely throwing out a hypothetical. But yeah, loved these things almost as much as I loved the Game and Watch and other tech of the era.
3. It's an old piece, but I finally got around to reading FilmCritHulk's article on Guardians of the Galaxy and the art of constructing jokes. As with much of what FCH writes, it's a solid look at an element of story structure we often don't think about.
4. As an upper-middle-class Jewish kid growing up in New York, I had fond memories of family vacations at the Borscht Belt hotels, particularly the Concord. I first saw Jackie Mason there, spent hours playing games in their arcade, and played tennis with Vitas Gerulaitis (seriously). So the Ruins of the Borscht Belt slideshow and article is fascinating to me, as is the more recent follow-up in the Times.
5. I loved getting mail as a kid, and still do, now. So this article on the post office, written by someone who shared my love, is depressing as hell. From the management to the horrible laws restricting the organization, it's not a pretty site, but it's well worth reading all the way through to the conclusion (which is not, spoiler alert, to scrap the whole thing.).