Only in Florida could a substitute teacher doing a magic trick be fired and accused of wizardry. Jim Piculas wowed his students with a simple toothpick trick and wound up losing his job when the principal wanted him out.
Man, you gotta love the state of my birth.
I was wondering this weekend why in a world where HDTV is considered viewing state-of-the-art why designers still think people have only one eye. Imagine if we were all still listening to monaural music and stereo didn’t exist, for instance! Why don’t we exercise our wonderful depth of field perception and create three-dimensional images to watch?
That got me thinking about the old View-Master viewers which displayed discs of 7 stereoscopic images through the use of hand-held viewers. A simple concept – invented in 1939 – yet we’re still looking at a flat, two-dimensional screen for almost everything. It was so far ahead of its time, it seems.
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Saturday, the family and I decided to explore our world by bike, so we rode through the neighborhoods to the nearby Raleigh city greenway. Our destination was the section of greenway between Raleigh Boulevard and Capital Boulevard known as the Middle Crabtree Trail. Getting there wasn’t a problem, as we could ride on low-traffic streets all the way to Raleigh Boulevard. Once to Raleigh Boulevard, though, we had to stick to the sidewalks for a block as that street appears too dangerous for safe biking.
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