Byte Magazine’s computing prediction, April, 1981
this seems kind of impractical
tiny little floppy disc I can sorta understand but the keyboard is just. cruel.
(Source: futurism-media, via liamdryden)
“And Matilda found, to her surprise, that life could be fun. She decided to have as much fun as possible. After all, she was a very smart kid. Matilda and Miss Honey each got what they wanted: a loving family.”
Matilda (1996)
dir. Danny DeVito
(via liamdryden)
That Sally Hemings is in anyone’s thoughts in this era is a testament to her singularity. Americans generally have not taken an interest in the lives of individual slaves unless they escaped slavery to become famous, as did Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass. For the most part it has been slaves as a group - and individuals who served as a metaphor for the group or as a type within the group - who have been the primary focus of any attention directed toward slaves. This focus has made it difficult to see a given slave as an individual who might possess the entire range of sensibilities, strengths, and weaknesses of other members of the human race. The person becomes totally lost within the system.
— Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (via publius-esquire)
