B.J. Major

@RetroNewsNow I remember that!

🇺🇸On March 19, 2009, President Barack Obama made an appearance on NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,’ marking the first time an incumbent U.S. President appeared as a guest on a late-night talk show

@MmeTagg A heaping stack!

Would this be a "pile of waffles," or a "heap?"

@The_Top_Loader Actually, having a hang tag would be great for a storage solution; you just hang up the game on peg boards…!

@webmaster_major Im a tag guy but I dont mind either ways !

So were you a .. TAG or NO TAG kinda person?

@ColonelFalcon Yes!

@webmaster_major Glad to hear that mate! Good dream too! 🤣 Did you wake up before it exploded? 🤣

@ColonelFalcon Your Alleyway post inspired me to play mine; afterwards, I had a dream that I was playing Gameboy in a Starbucks! Then, I was trying to take apart a rechargeable battery! 🔋🕹️

@EastEndJoe That could easily turn into a sinkhole (of which we have many in this area)!!

Potholes in some areas of Long Island are getting big enough to recreate the Titanic and settle the ongoing debate about there being enough room on that floating door.

@gamer_lafan I didn’t know this was an IP! I’ve played it a lot, it’s a good shooter. 🕹️

Back in the ’90s, Capcom made a lot of games using popular anime IPs. One of them was AREA 88. It’s about mercenary pilots—you earn money through missions, upgrade your aircraft and weapons, then take on even tougher missions to make more money. The game captured that progression really well. By today’s standards, it’s a pretty old anime, but it was very famous back then—most gamers in their 40s would definitely recognize it. It first came out in arcades and was later ported to the Super Famicom, and as you’d expect from Capcom, it did a great job preserving the arcade feel.

@DrPopCultureUSA Theirs is one of the tv shows I need to see at some point because I was too young when it was originally on! @DavidLambertArt

Gene Autry and Pat Buttram

@Rainmaker1973 @stevewoz

The Robotics team from Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania, built the robot Miss Daisy XXIV that picks up balls and shoots them into a container.

Spring 1992. Steve Jobs stands in front of a room of MBA students at MIT, pitching a computer that almost nobody bought. The company was called NeXT. It sold about 50,000 machines in its entire existence. By every measure, it was a failure. The software inside it became the foundation of every Apple product ever made, and the platform on which the World Wide Web was invented. He's 37. He's been fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. He spends 70 minutes talking. He tells a room full of future consultants that consulting is a waste of talent. "Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, one learns a fraction of what one can." He compares consulting to looking at a picture of a banana. "You might have a lot of pictures on your wall. You can say, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes. But you never really taste it." He says, "I think everybody lost" about being pushed out of Apple. "I think I lost. And I wanted to spend my life there. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost." Then: "Having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm." He says hardware can never be a lasting competitive advantage. "Hardware churns every 18 months. You can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor, and it only lasts six months." But software, he says, is a different game. "You can make something five or even ten times as good as your competitors in software. And it's very, very hard to copy. I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac." Then he makes a claim that almost nobody in the room would have believed: "Object-oriented technology is the biggest technical breakthrough I have seen since the early 80s with graphical user interfaces. And I think it's bigger actually." He was describing NeXTSTEP, the software his "failed" company had built. Object-oriented programming, in plain terms, means building software from reusable building blocks rather than writing everything from scratch. Jobs said developers could build apps on NeXTSTEP in about a third to a quarter of the time it took on other systems. Almost nobody cared. By industry standards, NeXT was a flop. But four years after this talk, Apple was nearly bankrupt. They bought NeXT for $427 million. Jobs came back. NeXTSTEP became Mac OS X in 2001. The same code became iOS when the iPhone launched in 2007. Every Mac, every iPhone, every iPad, every Apple Watch runs on what Jobs was selling while Sun was trying to put him out of business. One more thing. In 1990, at a physics lab in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee needed a computer to build a prototype for something he called the World Wide Web. He chose a NeXT. He built the first web browser and the first web server. The internet, as you know it, was born on a machine that couldn't find a market. When asked what he learned from being fired from Apple, Jobs pauses. Then he says, "I now take a longer-term view on people. When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here, and we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year." He was 37, running a company most people thought was dead, standing in a room full of MBA students. Apple is now worth $3.7 trillion. Every dollar of it runs on the thing he built when nobody was watching.

@_beauty_addict1 Mango

Which is your favorite fruit ?

@HawkEmDownChris The Kingston Trio

Without googling, can you name a famous trio?

@brockpierson YouTube

Are you old enough to remember what this was the logo for?

@Jamesjonesik8 Of COURSE!!!!!

🚨Should the Epstein files be released at any cost, even if it brings down the President? A. yes B. No

@F0ODHub Onion Rings

What would make this even better?

@Amelia558rs Mighty Mouse

@WorkElizab Top Cat

Maybe be Popeye What do you think?

@gggirl924 1972 (platform shoes)

I’m going to guess 1968. What’s your guess?

@DavidLambertArt One actor I was surprised to see in a tv western is Robert Vaughn. I’ve so associated him with spy & detective series that it’s kind of a shock to see him dressed as a cowboy and appearing in GUNSMOKE!