At Roger’s in Toronto we launched WebTV using Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 cable set top boxes. Horrible slow performance but a real proof of concept. When we turned it off a couple of years later the last user was using the tv-based email to run a small business.

Having eaten lunch at 7-11 and Lawson every day in Tokyo for months I have high hopes for the transformation they are trying to accomplish.

Original YTV staff member here. Think Canadian Nickelodeon. The CRTC licensed entire demographic-based channels so that broadcasters could pull in big ad $$ on US programming while also spending $ on Canadian productions as a condition for being able to do so. Like us. We did that really really well

Suggest the books of Wendy Long Stanley, who researched early records and wrote an historical fiction novel about how Betsy Ross could have been the person who did that, and why it reasonably might not have been well known.
I’m biased about her work, but the research was pretty thorough…

Rode out Wilma just north of Tulum in 05. The biggest issue for us was lack of comms after all the towers blew down. Total devastation on the ground and the tall glass hotels were poor choices. The smaller buildings did surprisingly ok as long as they were set back from the beach.

Let’s embrace the spirit of that…

Because driving a good car is like poetry in motion…

Closely related, the drive until you can find a hotel with an open room on a long weekend…

DONE!

Where can I get one of those?

Still with you

A lot like a wrinkle in time. Trying to be taken seriously

Betsy Ross sewed American flags while Philadelphia was occupied with British troops.