Microsoft’s got a pretty stellar track record of terrible Windows infomercials. Some for the consumer, some internal, all pretty rough. This 1988 video showcases Windows/386, a fairly impressive upgrade to Windows that introduced multitasking among other features. The impressiveness of the upgrade does not come through in this video. What begins as a dry-but-corny corporate…
Five Things – 3.26.12
1. The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate The Wash – This book lives in an old corner of my memory as the vehicle for several first-grade classroom read-alongs. Kid brings his boa constrictor on a field trip, and chaos ensues. It’s funny – the author never stuck with me, I wasn’t crazy about the illustrations at the time, and the story’s a bit dime-a-dozen, but for some reason this book is so memorable. And wouldn’t that be a victory for any writer?
Here’s a Reading Rainbow episode that features it (wouldn’t let me embed it)!
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