Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your product needs may soon be over. In the near future, currently being envisaged by engineers, you'll go shopping via PalmPilot, via TV with cable-modem hookup, via game machine, via intelligent refrigerator--via any means, it seems, other than a good old-fashioned desktop and keyboard...
...iMac's keyboard is so small that composing an e-mail with those translucent black keys (so chic!) is more of a nuisance than a joy. The function keys are tinier than the average Undergraduate Council grant. And those miniscule arrow keys, about the size of a worn-down eraser? Please. It isn't much use to be able to access the Web quickly if you can't type the correct address. Crowning these indignities, the iMac has no delete button, only backspace--so to fix your mistakes, you have to use those *#&@$% arrow keys...
...Harvard's decorators forgot about everyone's favorite epidemic in their rush to "think different." Dartboard likes a little postmodern color as much as the next person, but not when it means endangering our wrists. It won't be too long before someone figures out that typing on a keyboard the size of a napkin while standing in front of a terminal carrying a hefty backpack can't be good for the nervous system...
...director, Alan Parker, worked with Laura Jones to write the screenplay, and the film is very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...worked with Pablo, who's doing keyboard for them, with a lot of sound design projects. I'm excited to hear them...