Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewis spoke of being turned away from a public library as a 10-year-old boy, simply because he was black. As part of his book-signing tour, Lewis returned to the library earlier this year, 48 years later, and was finally presented with a library card...
...know you, but you know me. You know me from the picture on the ID card you picked up off the ground a week ago at the end of Stats 100 class. You know me from using my card at the Greenhouse within 10 minutes after class ended, a little after noon, when better food could have been had for free anywhere else. That night you used my card to order a pizza, and then cleaned out the rest of my Board Plus on another noontime Greenhouse purchase the next...
...should naturally be morally superior as well. I trusted them not to walk into my dorm room and steal my computer. I trusted them not to swipe my TI-83 off my desk in the library when I went to the bathroom. I trusted them to return my ID card to me when I lost...
...this opening-up-your-PC hurdle seems insurmountable, I recommend Dazzle Multimedia's Digital Video Creator ($249), a Walkman-size device that attaches externally. It doesn't have the extras of the Marvel (graphics card, TV tuner), and it uses the MPEG standard of compression, which delivers half the resolution of the MJPEG. Still, some people may prefer MPEG, since it consumes far less storage space...
Anyway, after installing my Marvel card, I connected a small purple box to my PC. This is what you plug your VCR, video camera or TV into. The device comes with Avid Cinema for Windows, software made by Avid Technology, a company renowned for the high-end video-editing stuff the pros use. It's exceptional, with a great tutorial that showed me how to make a movie in 10 minutes. An editing screen lets you drag and drop color-coded video, music and voice-over clips onto a storyboard, where you assemble them. Avid also provides dozens of dissolves...