Thursday, January 9, 2014

Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day In History January 9, 2014


Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 9, 2014:  Slow day and week (and I mean scrapping the bottom of the barrel slow) for holidays unless your lucky enought to celebrate:
             1.
National Lose Weight/ Feel Great Week 1/5-1/12 shed those holiday pounds.
             2. Elvis Presley Birthday Celebration Week 1/8-1/11: Off to Vegas for CES and Elvis
                 impersonators while wearing your blue suede shoes.                                                                       
             3. International 3-D Week 1/7-1/10: Go see Gravity today or tomorrow.
On this day in:
             a. 1987 China and Vietnam engaged in border skirmishes killing over 1,500   
                  and discrediting the domino theory that put over 58,000 American
                  men and women's names on the Wall in D.C.
             b. 2001 Apple announced iTunes as the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. 
             c.  2007 Apple introduced the iPhone.
Oracles at Delphi were better predictors of success that some market gurus in a rapidly changing   technological world: "Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cellphones, wireless routers and other would-be hits.......and it will largely fail." --Michael Kanellos, analyist in Silicon Valley and editor at CNET. About as smart as the prediction that Beta would trounce VHS--hindsight always wonderful.
            Kudos to all the interesting consumer electronic products we will be hard pressed to afford or understand on display the Internation CES happening this week in Las Vegas.      
            Take five from the first full week of work in 2014  and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 134 growing  followers and  please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for an original poem for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in  review just posted and on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com poems on the suit against the Little Sisters of the Poor and the costs to us of Michelle's birthday gift.

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