
Professor Peabody and Sherman's Wayback Machine
I know I should be working on MathMojo and writing more books, getting podcasts of Eating Math for Breakfast out, writing the Math Mojo Monthly (“Comes out Quarterly, Mostly”) and making some videos about how to make your own abax, but I got a great distraction a few minutes ago.
My cousin, Jayne, who is about my age (only younger) (I am fifty) sent me an e-mail with a link to a website that was like a time machine. If you are a boomer like us, you may want to check out When Life was in Black and White.
Go ahead and check it out now. I’ll wait. (You kiddies can go back to your X-boxes while Mommy and Daddy go back in time for awhile.)
Wasn’t that amazing?
It’s weird how my memory goes beyond my birth, because I remember every single one of those shows and jingles except for about 3. And some of them were before my time.
Remember
?
Those are the earliest ones I can remember.
I am a fan of some of the locally generated shows from NYC, too.
I guess with all that TV watching, it’s no wonder I never learned any math when I was a kid.
Don’t get me started on cartoons! If you do I’ll never get any work done!
For me, the best thing about the web is that it is like a Wayback Machine.
Hotcha!
Brian
Update: I’m having a nostalgia moment a few years after I posted this. Once again procrastinating from work. Here are the fruits of recent procrastinating:

Parody poster of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E"
Anybody remember “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”?

The original cover of one of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." books



My friend Steve just e-mailed to let me know I’d forgotten “The Modern Farmer” (which was the first show on every morning in NYC, at around 6am, before TV went 24/7) and “The Bowery Boys” (sometimes called “East Side Comedy” with Slip Mahoney or Mugs, depending.) The Bowery Boys were sort of an east-coast phenomenon. It was wildly popular out here, but not quite as much in the rest of the country. Sort of like Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Too bad, some of you guys missed out on some great stuff!
B:
Those memories, for me, are the building blocks of a lifetime. I wonder if the” Sopranos” and “Boston Legal” will also
become the memories of today’s lifetime. (Deep,huh?)
JW
-and I had the most fun watching those shows with you…..anonymous
boston legal is a great tv series which is based on courtroom drama:-,
i still watch Boston Legal because for me, this is the best coutroom drama TV series;:-
Boston Legal is great and i specially like it because i am a law student;~”
Boston Legal is one of the longest running coutroom drama TV series`.,
I’m having a nostalgia moment on facebook with some friends, and we’re talking about “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” at the moment. Ahhh, memories.
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