maybe: annie rauwerda

omg I am never going to shut up about this

imagine being cute 21 yo boy who gets 2 day gig escorting the president's daugher around an apple festival and she asks you to prom in 3 weeks at the WHITE HOUSE and BOOM u find urself in a mid-prom press conf with every national news outlet!!!!! you say nice stuff about her :-)

ok wait actually i need you guys to see these pics of them riding the presidential yacht before prom (i found the proof sheets on the ford presidential library site lmk if you find higher quality!!!)

also this site is good for prom night pics but it doesn't have everything archives.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/arch...

vanityfair.comRemembering a Wild Night at the 1975 White House PromIn 1975, spearheaded by 17-year-old First Daughter Susan Ford, students from the Holton-Arms school attended the first (and only) high-school dance to ever take place at the executive mansion. Forty y...

eventually it kind of fizzles but it ends on friendly terms and decades later you (and your kids) run into each other AT THAT SAME APPLE FESTIVAL www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015...

he seems so nice and normal given the circumstances (his name was in every newspaper overnight! crazy) and the last few paragraphs are kind of sweet! ok the end

can't stop reading about susan ford!!! irreverent/charming interviews, was 17 when her dad unexpectedly became president, literally convinced the federal government to let her host prom at the white house, etc

where are my susan ford heads at! (and by "susan ford head" i mean "people who find susan ford cool and endearing but are really happy that she can live the private life she wanted because omg to be thrust into this at 17 is crazy")

starting a collection of quotes like this

www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/u...

starting a collection of quotes like this

"Mostly because it seemed like a neat idea. There was no directive to ‘go forth and invent email." – Ray Tomlinson, when asked why he invented email www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/t...

nytimes.comnytimes.com

8 July

i wish everything looked like 1980s computer magazines

8 July

be careful if you click this link because the internet archive collection of computer magazines could suck you in for hours archive.org/details/comp...

26 June

impossible to get sick of the "DOG-LOVING DUCK" article in life magazine (1949)

books.google.com/books?id=_U4...

26 June

Cliff Stoll (kooky scientist, Cold War era hacker, klein bottles) published a 1995 essay and then a book claiming the web was overhyped and apparently it became known for being so wrong. But overall I think he really nailed it!!!!!

youtube.comThe call to learn | Clifford StollYouTube video by TED

I'm a big Cliff Stoll fan and I like pretty much everything he does so feel free to take this wiht a grain of salt but I think his ted talk is best one I've ever seen!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8I...

newsweek.comWhy the Web Won't Be NirvanaThe truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

www.newsweek.com/clifford-sto... there's the article link and here's his klein bottle website which is literally among the greatest websites ever and never gets old www.kleinbottle.com

18 June

went to a public lecture on transatlantic submarine cables where the entire audience was men of retirement age and i got to hold a segment of the original!!!

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

ok and i simply NEED to include some of the ads from this issue

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

from playboy's 2004 interview with "the google guys"

the whole 8-page interview is worth a read!!!

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

web.archive.orgweb.archive.org

wayback machine link web.archive.org/web/19991104...

27 May

i'm obsessed with taylor swift's 2007 myspace bio

27 May

from @archive.org's earliest capture of her site! web.archive.org/web/20070828...

27 May

the next capture @archive.org has is from july 2008 and i'm rather obsessed with that bio too web.archive.org/web/20080704...

it rocks that in every era of recorded history teenage boys have been creating public chaos as entertainment

25 May

century old musing about the still devastating reality that even being normal doesn't make you happy!

it rocks that in every era of recorded history teenage boys have been creating public chaos as entertainment

it's almost quaint how little teenage boy pranks have changed in a century despite the rapid technological innovation in pretty much everything else. perhaps the art form was perfected early

it rocks that in every era of recorded history teenage boys have been creating public chaos as entertainment

i miss when the new yorker would just write about whatever (random cab driver named "marithimor" which sounds like timothy and metaphor)

just fell into a rabbit hole of linguistics research where they write quiz questions with african american grammar/syntax and it's kind of fun to see which ones stump "standard english" speakers

bahahaha sorry ok here's the link

link.springer.comTense and Aspectual be in Child African American EnglishAdolescent and adult African American English (AAE) is characterized by well-defined tense and aspect patterns; however, the stages of development in which child AAE speakers acquire these patterns ha...

i feel compelled to turn my accidental link omission into an endless thread of me teasing the link, and maybe i will, but for now here's the link in case you want to read it haha link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

just fell into a rabbit hole of linguistics research where they write quiz questions with african american grammar/syntax and it's kind of fun to see which ones stump "standard english" speakers

oops here's the link, almost forgot

love the amazon reviews for this brand of potato chips that used to only be sold in prison

i've only seen them sold in person once and it was a liquor store in the tenderloin! i wonder if they're sometimes sold in crime ridden neighborhodos where customers might be more likely to know them?!

love the amazon reviews for this brand of potato chips that used to only be sold in prison

the bummer is that they're made by Keefe Group which is one of the largest for-profit vendors for prison commissary stores and seems a bit evil from my cursory google search!

love the amazon reviews for this brand of potato chips that used to only be sold in prison