![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This article defines twelve dimensions across which future user interfaces may differ from the canonical window systems of today: User focus, the computer's role, interface control, syntax, object visibility, interaction stream, bandwidth, tracking feedback, interface locus, user programming, and software packaging. Many of these next-generation interfaces will not have the user control the computer through commands, but will have the computer adapt the dialogue to the user's needs based on its inferences from observing the user. Several new user interface technologies and interaction principles seem to define a new generation of user interfaces that will move off the flat screen and into the physical world to some extent. Note: This is a revised version of a paper that appeared in the Communications of the ACM 36, 4 (April 1993), 83–99. ![]()
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![]() Over the years, Johnson’s influence has resounded in the music of Muddy Waters (“32-20 Blues”), Elmore James (“I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom”), Junior Parker (“Sweet Home Chicago”), John Hammond Jr. Those songs have become a cornerstone of Columbia Records’ identity, and will be celebrated on two CENTENNIAL releases from Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. ![]() The ‘deal’ brought forth Johnson’s incandescent guitar technique and a run of 10-inch 78 rpm singles for the Vocalion, Oriole, Conqueror and Perfect labels recorded in San Antonio in 1936 and Dallas in 1937. May 8, 2011, marks the 100th birthday of Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, who, according to legend, sold his soul down at the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in a midnight bargain that has haunted the music world for three-quarters of a century. ![]() ![]() The only drawback that I found with this Audible production is the unfortunate lack of a list of chapters. It avoids the tiresomely over-sexualised style of narration adopted by far too many narrators of lesbian focused fiction an over-sexualised narrative style, which unfortunately creates a sensory overload for the listener, that detracts from the actual romantic or sexy passages and makes them much less meaningful. It is a nice change that the narrator does not read the this book as if it were one long sex scene. Another pleasing quality of this audiobook is the refreshing production. ![]() I will be looking out for more of G Benson's work in future. While the author's portrayal of romantic longing and love are without the soppyness that can easily spoil a good love story. ![]() It is to the author's credit that this unlikely romance includes great characterisation written with gentle but often laugh-out-loud humour and both sadness and happiness are conveyef with conviction. Including sympathetic key characters who are non binary, pan-sexual and multicultural we follow their story as they strive to be true to themselves in the this interesting tale that is by turns both preposterous and totally believable. ![]() I found it difficult to stop listening to this fascinating, modern-day romance that is a refreshing addition to the standard fare of American lesbian fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() One missed contraceptive pill throws her into a life-changing pregnancy. Her life was satisfying though and she had one good friend, Hannah.įour years into a stable relationship with Dylan, Amy does a pregnancy test and when the stick turns pink, her comfortable, carefree existence is overturned. She did not fit into the army married quarters society of mindless wifey gossip and blokey army politics. Her childhood in crisp, dry, temperate Victoria as the daughter of an organic food café proprietor had left her as somewhat of a social introvert, a non-Army wife, who describes herself as a pacifist hippy in love with a gun-toting soldier. ![]() ![]() Plus she has Dylan there to make her laugh and call her affectionate legume names like Mungbean. With her university degree completed, an ABN and a Macbook she was set on a course of a successful career doing freelance ad design for Darwin’s top advertising agency. ![]() In Darwin, Amy, at twenty years of age, enjoys total autonomy, away from both of their fussing families. When her boyfriend, Dylan is posted to Darwin it was like a ticket to freedom for Amy, courtesy of the Australian Armed Forces. In Peace, Love and Khaki Socks, Kim Lock, in her first novel has captured with graphic snapshots, a young woman’s rite of passage from pre-pubescent adolescence to being a mother at just 24 years of age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which means appreciating them just the way they are. And so I practice turning people into trees. ![]() And you are constantly saying, “You’re too this, or I’m too this.” That judging mind comes in. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you look at the tree and you allow it. ![]() And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. Part of it is observing oneself more impersonally… When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. ![]() Answering a question about how we can judge ourselves less harshly, he writes: Ram DassĪ century after Whitman, Ram Dass (April 6, 1931–December 22, 2019) drew on the human-tree analogy in a soulful invitation to treat ourselves - and each other - with the same nonjudgmental spaciousness with which we regard trees. Remembering his most beloved friend, he wrote that she was “true, honest beautiful as a tree is tall, leafy, rich, full, free - is a tree.” I too consider the people I most love my human trees - people firmly rooted in a foundation of moral beauty, relentlessly reaching for the light, bent into their particular beloved shape by the demands and traumas of their particular lives. Walt Whitman cherished them as paragons of authenticity amid a world of mere appearances. Hermann Hesse believed that trees are our greatest spiritual teachers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knew farming or some type of local trade, and he knew it very well. How far do you suppose this man would travel? Maybe a couple of times out of the state in his lifetime. He lived on a farm and knew how to run the family business. ![]() ![]() Think about it: 150 years ago, a resident in a rural place such as Tennessee did not have a car. The world is ever more complex for humans today than it was 150 years ago. Still, I felt that there’s a life lesson to take away from this idea of a competent man as having multiple skills rather than being a limited man. Admittedly, I still have no idea how to conn a ship or set a bone, but let’s not forget this is an idea from one man. Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long in the novel Time Enough for Love provides a list of requirements for a competent man. ― Lazarus Long - Time Enough for Love (Robert Heinlein) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. ![]() ![]() The narrator tells of meeting this nun who hallucinates, Sister Marie Angelique and a Doctor 1st-Person Narration Anstruther - "The Hound of Death"Īnstruther narrates his hearing of a mysterious nun from Mr. None of the books are spoiled or ruined in this article. Below is a small list in alphabetical order of the narrators' names, with their mini-bio, and the stories that they narrate. Narrators for Poirot's cases, plus others Agatha used in her books. There are certainly other narrators in Agatha Christie's myseries. He was the "Doctor Watson" to Poirot, and a vicarious voice for the reader. ![]() He narrates in Agatha's first published work, and Hercule Poirot's first story, The MysteriousĪffair at Styles. The most well-known narrator in Agatha Christie's mysteries is probably Arthur Hastings. ![]() ![]() ![]() This especially applies to the Raggedy legends. One of the distinguishing features of a legend is that, unlike an out-and-out fairy tale, it is factual-sounding enough to be believable. What makes this even more intriguing is that fact that Johnny Gruelle, either unwittingly or with the great sense of humor he was known for, initiated many of these legends, a number of which are continuously repeated as the factual history of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Because Gruelle was a natural born storyteller, it followed that his dolls would star in whimsical, fanciful tales, based on fantasy and make believe.īecause of this, Johnny Gruelle's little rag dolls have also found themselves at the center of several legend cycles - groups of stories that, while containing kernels of truth, are more myth than they are history. They were literary characters as well, possessing attributes and outlooks reflecting trustworthiness, kindness, and spunk. At the hand of their creator, cartoonist-illustrator-author Johnny Gruelle, the Raggedys weren't ever simply dolls. Raggedy Ann, and her equally spirited rag brother, Andy are the world's best-known and most adored rag dolls. ![]() ![]() Casting their mystical knowledge as a scientifically honed craft, these mentalists persuaded millions to pay for dubious advice until governmental and public pressures forced them off the air. These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. ![]() ![]() When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the son of Captain Alejandro de la Vega, a hard-working, hard fighting Spanish soldier seeking his fortune in the Americas and Toypurnia, a mestiza, the daughter of a Native American shaman and a Spanish sailor. Diego is born in the late eighteenth century near San Gabriel, a Franciscan mission in Spanish colonial Alta California. This Zorro has his own frailties and prejudices (and somewhat protruding ears), plus the ingenious tricks and “disproportionate love of justice” we are all familiar with. Now, meet Diego de la Vega: real, flesh and blood, three dimensional. He was an American pulp fiction character, created almost 100 years ago, who became a “legend.” Embellished, glamorized, Disneyfied, with several changes in wardrobe and equipment (the first Zorro wore a sombrero and often carried a pistol,) his latest incarnation is the star of a Colombian TV show on Telemundo – a far more promiscuous hero than the original, and with a theme song by Beyoncé. ![]() |