On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:40:04 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 10/28/2015 6:06 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Just you wait. It comes to us all.:-P
>>> >
>>> >Wait one.
>> Waiting.;)
>>
>>
> Your custom is important to us.
> Please listen to this elevator musak...

Only if it's good.  Then again, you said "musak", so it probably isn't. :P

>> The idea of on-demand programming was something I was first introduced
>> to by someone who worked at NBC back in the mid 90's as well.  He
>> described pretty much what we see now with Netflix and other
>> streaming/on-demand video services.
>>
> If you read any amount of SF the infinite monkeys got there first.
> Mobile (cell) phones excepted.

Star Trek communicators.  The design of the Motorola Flip phone allegedly 
was taken from Star Trek.

> Strange how that got missed by everyone except Dick Tracy.

More the Apple Watch, but yeah.

>>> >Thinking about it. I'm glad that my time is when it is. I despair
>>> >when I see the way the world is going.
>> I think we all reach that point eventually.
>>
>>
> So it seems. Just glad I'm normal in one aspect. ;-)

LOL

>>> >If I am asked what I want to be on the next turn of the wheel. I will
>>> >say. "A rock." And I don't mean St. Peter.
>> I wouldn't have guessed that.  Or maybe I would have.;)
> 
> You have a head start. :-)
> 
> I was talking about Edinburgh Rock. The best thing to come out of
> Edinburgh, the road to Glasgow, excluded. ;-)

I'll have to remember that one the next time I'm talking with friends who 
live in Scotland.  Especially the ones who live in Edinburgh. ;)

Jim



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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