click on the start but the, lower left hand corner of your screen, but instead of starting some normal program, you start microsoft bob. microsoft bob appears in a face on your screen and in order to get started doing your work, your homework, whatever you would have to knock on the door of microsoft bob s house, click on the knocker, the dog would demand know who you are, he would bark it, you let you in, and that is where you are supposed to get your work done, with the dog demanding answers from you. to start a program, click on it. what s program? what are you talking about? why am i in this barn? you have the wherewithal to tell the dog you want to click other options, the parks that you again. a gigantic list of things you are allowed to do. would you like to delete something? would you like to go to another room? would you like to click on this one that says rovers ramblings? imagine if this is how you had to do your work every day? this was microsoft bob. microsoft bo
tell the dog you want to click other options, he barks at you again. you get a gigantic list of things you re allowed to do. would you like to delete something? would you like to go to another room? would you like to click on this one that says rover s ramblingsm imagine if this is how you had to do your work every day. this was microsoft bob. microsoft bob was a short-lived idea for making interacting with a computer impossible and noisy and scary and slow and extra discombobulating. microsoft bob. absolutely terrifying.t that was circa 1995. microsoft bob did not last. someone in the same category of the dust bin of history, you in will also find the original iteration back in 1999 of something called the i-smell. it s a product called i-smell, because sure, why not. have you never been 8 years old and answering the telephone? i smell.er the idea was when you went to a certain website, this thing on your desk would poof out at you a little bit of stink. a little stink that
listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom it will be 1990. good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. d oh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s i love you guys. were such a warm, safe humor. you see? the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father s
he joined the chorus of law enforcement voices testifying against chauvin but the case could come down to causation. others weighed in including doctors. the latter testifying that floyd died from a low level of oxygen, saying that even a healthy person subjected to what floyd was subjected to would have died. that is not exactly the same as what the jurors heard from the hennepin county chief medical examiner. on the stand he said floyd s underlying medical conditions and any drugs he had in his system could be contributing factors in his death but not the direct cause. which he maintains is, quote, cardiopulmonary arrest compl complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression. while chauvin is at the very center of events surrounding george floyd s death, he is not the only officer who will stand trial for it. former minneapolis police officer thomas lane and two others have been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. authorities say that
americans. even among trump, josh hawley said some populist republicans, who are at least some of the elements of that. we ll bring you all the developments on that. plus this, the first johnson & johnson coronavirus shots could be in americans arms as early as next week. today an fda advisory committee will review the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. authorization could come as soon as this weekend. let s begin on capitol hill. cnn s lauren fox following the latest on the stimulus bill. first step, of course, in the house. then the senate. are they on schedule, right, for this to be passed before those enhanced unemployment benefits expire? well, they are right now, jim. they got a boost, if you will, from the senate parliamentarian last night who ruled they could not include the $15 minimum wage. while that was disappointing to a majority of democrats on capitol hill, it was good news for chuck schumer, the majority leader, who supports the minimum wage himself an