Word: dot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every once in a while I, Mr. Computer Guy, get fed up with the darn things. Forget about dot pitch, 3D rendering, UltraDMA and other wacky acronymns apparently established to create an industry of technical interpretation. Occasionally, the melee of swiftly changing standards and products, with their accompanying problems is too much for a tech fiend to bear. Sometimes, I just want to get work done...
...moving photograph has a single absorbing spot, a place that calls forth feeling. He called it the punctum, Latin for puncture or point. It could be something as simple as the little smudge that is the comet Hale-Bopp, which was for a while the world's most celebrated dot. Since it was an ancient dot, and one that got around a lot, it shed an astral glamour wherever it appeared. Like the President or Sharon Stone, it made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside it. So we nominate Hale-Bopp as Punctum of the Year...
...metal chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
...place was crawling with agents, you were directed to wait your turn in a row of empty chairs. When your name was called, you were passed through a metal detector and ferried upstairs to an undecorated 6-by-6 cubicle. There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes...
...alluding to 10 years ago, when I failed to buy in the last decade's most famous October buying opportunity. My toughest critic/guardian angel unflinchingly said, "Stand there with a bushel basket as stocks come in." What stocks? I wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes to buy. At 3:30 the market rammed the 550-point barrier that triggers an hour shutdown. But the exchange closes...