I’m going to be upfront here… I don’t know a whole lot about the Miami Dolphins. You see, I’ve always been a Dallas Cowboys fan. A 1990s Dallas Cowboys fan. But to continue the Super Bowl Friday tradition of football nostalgia posts (you can read last year’s Super Bowl Friday piece on the Houston Oilers…
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How did we miss this Sofia Vergara calendar clip? Was I in an accident? Here’s to Sofia! Wow!
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Earlier this week, our very own Lisa Kay found a vintage video clip on X. Footage from inside a video rental store in the 90s. And she was cool enough to share it with me! Not only did I have epic memories of venturing to the video store, but I also couldn’t get enough of…
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This week we’re going back into the grade school computer lab and loading up another banger from the fine folks of the Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium (MECC). The game? Odell Lake. And yes, the MECC is the same developer of the more widely popular, The Oregon Trail. And you can check out my very first…
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Back to school is underway! Whether you’re a stay-at-home parent who is excited for the daytime silence. Or tearful to send your little one off for another annual reminder that your kids just won’t stop growing up. What better time to throwback to the era of Lisa Frank school supplies that just about every girl…
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Before ChatGPT, Grok, and Midjourney. And before Siri and Gemini. Well before we had these advanced versions of AI, us fine users of Microsoft Office 97 had our good ol’ pal, Clippy. Clippy (officially known as, Clippit) was the Microsoft Office personal assistant paperclip available to users writing documents, building spreadsheets, and even assembling project…
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Weight loss fads come and go. Some quicker than others. If you don’t really remember Olean, it’s ok. It came and went about as fast as the time it took the food to pass through your system. Gross. I know. But here we are, the trend still carrying on. Olestra is a fat substitute food…
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“Milk. It does a body good.” A slogan for the ages. With catch phrases like this, kids in America sure had some greatness to aspire to growing up in the 80s and 90s. It does a body good? Boy, I’ll say. It’s the whole idea of going from “geek-to-chic.” And in the 80s and 90s,…
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They’re a lucrative collector’s item now, if you’ve got ‘em. I’m talking about POGs. The popular school yard game that consumed millions of recess hours (and our parents’ paychecks). What are POGs? The game of POGs is believed to have originated in the early 1900s in Hawai’i. A game once referred to as “Milk Caps.”…
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We in the Free State of Florida are just finishing up our week of Spring Break. And while my week started off getting a nice outdoor lunch-time sunburn, I still spent some time this week reminiscing about the days during Spring Break as a kid in the 90s. And our abundant use of Clairol’s ‘A…
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