January 14th, 2013

State law requires you to watch this video of a singing hippo

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I did it briefly a few years ago, but I’m going to make it a regular Monday feature, at least for this year: Blogging my dreams.

I dreamed that I was back in my high school English class, and due to some new state law, everybody was required to watch this video of a singing hippo. The hard part was walking four miles to the nearest viewing location, seeing as we didn’t even have a TCP/IP standard yet, much less YouTube.

To think that this is the culmination of the technological advances of the last three decades: Being able to watch a singing hippo on demand.

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Old New Thing
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DreamNon-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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