Ice comes alive
A cool time lapse video of flight 1549 being pulled out of the Hudson. The A320 had to be rescued as well.
The Beatles in 1957. George Harrison is 14, John Lennon is 16, and Paul McCartney is 15.
There is a bit in this video about test strips - something I learned this week in class.
Not much to say about the year.
Got a great new job. Serious plus.
Found out the true nature of someone who I never would have thought to be the way they are. Wasted a good portion of the year on that.
Traveled quite a bit … flew 4 times - one international trip.
I got a bit bored w/ photography.
Made some friends - didn’t hangout with friends enough.
I’ve come to realize just how boring my home town is and that I need a serious change on that front.
I read 15 books - just not enough.
This video got me to thinking.
I’m presently reading a biography on Henry Ford, I’ve been reading it since June I think, but that’s another story. Henry Ford developed the Model T - which opened up automobiles to the masses. It paved the way for streets and stoplights and drive-ins and shopping malls and laws geared towards automotive safety, etc. The Model T changed the world and became ubiquitous in the early part of the 19th century. 3 out of every 4 cars on the road was a Ford Model T up until Ford quit production in the mid 1920s. The reason that the Model T, the most successful car ever built, was taken out of production was that the competition, mainly Chevrolet, upped the ante. Chevrolet introduced the payment plan, buying a car on installments, introduced model years with yearly design changes and engineering improvements. However, the Model T pretty much retained the same design and engineering that it had in it’s first year of production thru the end of production 19 years later when introduced the Model A. Ford never regained it’s position as the world leader in automotive production.
I see this happening in the relatively new smartphhone market. The iPhone has taken the smartphhone market to a new level, introducing ease of use, the ability to customize it’s use with the addition of applications that you download, sleek design and great functionality. The iPhone has paved the way for the smartphone market to take off … and take off it has. With Google getting involved with the Android OS and now the Elise. The innovation and development w/ smartphones right now seems to be ramping up. When I first got my iPhone I found it exciting and new - now that I have an android phone I see the iPhone’s GUI stagnant and boring. The competition has introduced new and exciting features that customers are starting to like. I hope Apple sees this and steps up the design and functionality of the next iPhone.
I see a lot of similarities …
BTW, that phone in the video is just off the hook sick!
