I don’t know about you, but I forget what it’s like to NOT have a cell phone–and I’m only 42. How did people order pizza on the way home from the office?
I like this video talking about the cell system for car phones in 1979.
I remember my boss got his first “brick” phone back in 1987 and I thought we were the coolest guys around.
Many of you know I’m on the Board of Directors for BeadforLife, a poverty eradication project based in Uganda. Ugandan women turn colorful recycled paper into beautiful beads, gather shea nuts to make shea butter for cosmetics and soaps, and women worldwide sell the items and educate themselves and others about extreme poverty.
This Sunday the 27th at 7pm at the Boulder Theater eTown, a nationally syndicated radio show, will interview founder Torkin Wakefield and present the organization with an E-Chievement Award!
Yeah!
Come join me in celebrating the good work this charity is doing in the world.
In my continued pursuit of winning at Rock, Papers, Scissors (see my previous newsletter where I gave strategies), the New York Times has an active webpage where you can play against a computer, and the computer learns from you in order to beat you in subsequent tries.
It’s pretty good. Of course, it’s really an exercise in statistical averages and that we’re really not as random as we think we are.
But knowing that takes the fun away, so forget you just read that.