“The healots are coming! The healots are coming!” So said Walter Brennan in Frank Capra’s wonderful movie John Doe with Gary Cooper and my very favorite actress Barbara Stanwyck. In it Cooper plays a ballplayer-turned-hobo , who’ll do anything for three squares and a place to sleep. When newspaper publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), a fascistic type [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ipad’
New Tricks For An Old Dog
Posted: 7th March 2012 by lonfellow in EDITORIAL CARTOONTags: aarp, computers, dogs, education, imac, ipad, iphone, tricks
I have heard so many people including my ex-wife say “I cannot use a computer it’s too difficult.”” They say this like it’s a badge of honor. Like clinging to the past is an appropriate way to honor their generation. This is akin to the car enthusiast who buys a car which he drove as [...]
The Gadgets Didn’t Make It
Posted: 13th December 2011 by lonfellow in EDITORIAL CARTOONTags: android, bing, blood, cartoon by Lon levin, emergency hospital, head injury, ipad, iphone, olderwithgadgets, parents, senior cartoon, son
True story (as comics always say) I was in the emergency room at our local hospital. I was waiting to talk to the billing person when two distraught parents came in helping their son to the receptionist area. It looked like he had a head injury because he was loosely bandaged and there was some [...]
Am I Irrelevant?
Posted: 22nd September 2011 by lonfellow in EDITORIAL CARTOONTags: bing, Costa Rica, google, ipad, iphones, lap tops, newspaper, newspaper articles, technology, trees, yahoo
Yes, there are still holdouts who will not get their news from the internet. The feel of crunchy cheap newsprint and the ink that rubs off on the fingers still carries an allure to millions. Reading a newspaper and sipping a Latte at a small bistro holds a romantic allure a laptop or iPad cannot [...]
Welcome To The Future
Posted: 24th April 2011 by lonfellow in EDITORIAL CARTOONTags: bing, cartoon by Lon levin, eldergadget, future technology, google, ipad, iphone, olderw tih gadgets, rip van winkle, senior cartoon, technology, yahoo
I love that line. It’s the words from Craig Ferguson’s Late Night TV Show theme song. I find it intriguing and it gets me thinking about how far technology has advanced in the last twenty-five years. To illustrate this point, I had a “wow” moment one day in 1989, when I walked into Graham Nash’s [...]