Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton My track coach Jim Rimmer was the first one I heard say “no pain, no gain.” I didn’t love hearing that then, but I knew he was right. I knew I would be running past my comfort zone, until my ribs began to hurt, then keep going. But I knew …
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by Kevin Burton I started school in Bermuda. So I don’t know if this was a thing stateside. But a box toward the bottom of my kindergarten and first grade report cards read: “Uses Time Wisely.” Funny, I remember that, but I don’t recall what my teachers wrote in that box. I …
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by Kevin Burton Technology doesn’t march on anymore, it flies. Actually, flying seems to pedestrian a concept to describe it. Teleports, is that the word I am looking for? Today we’re looking at old technologies, finishing a list from the Dictionary Scoop website that we started yesterday. Number 9 on the …
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by Kevin Burton The Dictionary Scoop website illustrated its list of old technologies with a picture of a cassette tape, but then didn’t see fit to include cassettes in its discussion. There’s an oldie but a goodie, right? Well I just bought some cassettes! I have a lot of music on cassette …
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by Meg Britton-Mehlisch Wichita Beacon Staff at Wichita’s City Hall weren’t happy with their virtual footprint. In 2022, they described the city’s website, http://www.wichita.gov, as “suboptimal,” “outdated” and “confusing.” So the city spent $312,000 on a website refresh intended to flip that description and create a welcoming and easy-to-use virtual gateway to local …
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by interestingfacts.com Think back to your school days: Are you nostalgic for flipping through a dusty library card catalog or clacking away on a typewriter? Some subjects you remember from those days are probably things of the past, although the finer points of how schools have changed might surprise you. These six subjects …
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by Kevin Burton’ O Christmas tree O Christmas tree, I’ve got your back O Christmas tree! Is this me re-writing a classic Christmas song? No it’s not. Hear me out. Thanksgiving (the holiday, not the action) is over. It is now cool to play the Christmas music and put up that Christmas …
by Kevin Burton There is a song I love by the band Chicago called “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is.” Did you ever notice, it starts with walking? The song’s philosophical statement is about the rat race. It’s about living up to the world’s standards and being in a big, ever-increasing …
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by Kevin Burton Just two hours on a recent Tuesday greatly enhanced how we feel about our house, and all we did was open the front door. Electricians came and executed six of the seven small projects we had scheduled. The seventh is much more involved than we thought because of the way …
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by Kevin Burton The cell phone, or more specifically, the cell phone call, turned 50 recently. It’s a story I almost ignored. Here is part of a CNN Business story on the anniversary: “On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the …
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