Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems so obvious now that it's amazing no one thought of it sooner: a computer that keeps track of thousands of phone numbers, addresses and calendar appointments, a to-do list and memos, yet is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. When Palm Computing first introduced its tiny Pilot two years ago, the gizmo did all that and more--and hit the jackpot. Sales zoomed to a million, and everyone from Al Gore to Robin Williams was packing one. At $299, the device was cheap (for a computer), hip and elegant. But the real secret...
...Since everyone writes letters differently, he reduced some of the most troublesome letters to basic elements: an A looks like an upside-down V, and an F resembles an upside-down L.) He powered the Pilot with AAA batteries, available everywhere. And he settled on four function buttons--for calendar, addresses, to-do list and memos--because those were the most commonly used applications. Whenever someone urged him to cram more functions into the unit, Hawkins held fast. "There were a lot of battles," he says. "But I just said no, we have to keep it simple...
When the initiative--managed by independent computer consulting and software production company Nevo Technologies--is fully implemented, departments, Houses and administrative offices will make changes to course listings via Web browsers; students will gain access to their course schedules and grades on-line; and examination scheduling and calendar planning will be fully computerized...
Since the mental calendar of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen is often turned back to the 1940s, Dude is a shambling version of Philip Marlowe, the incomprehensible plot and the all-too-comprehensible visual references homages to the film-noir tradition--as if we needed more. Happily, however, the Coens have established a tradition of their own: deeply weird characters (let John Goodman's great portrait of one of those paranoid know-it-alls who actually know nothing stand for the mad multitude this movie contains) embedded in profoundly banal settings (much of the film is set in a bowling...
According to Sharkley, Dr. Seuss's "Oh, ThePlaces You'll Go" is a top choice--especially asthe campus calendar approaches spring commencementseason...