YOU MAY NOW BEGIN DISMANTLING your tall buildings of paste and papier mache.
IT WAS A LOVELY VISIT with both Lawrence Weschler at the Humanities Festival
AND OF COURSE, the late night Malort club.
I GO TO ANN ARBOR NOW to say hello to the ancient BORDERS #1.
MEANWHILE, I STAND CORRECTED. As per @nickcatal, the photo of me in a viper from my FIRST visit to space is indeed on the Internet.
THAT IS ALL
1969, DALLAS, TX: The first ATM machine is installed. Standing for “AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MACHINE,” the first ATM could receive deposits and dispense cash (though only in coins) and was roughly the size of a city block. Despite its name, it was not wholly automated: A single human controller was required to supervise and make manual notations in the customer’s bankbook. He would sit in a little dome atop the machine. However, this bank employee was instructed to wear a tinfoil suit and talk like a machine so as not to ruin the futuristic effect.
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