It’s My Father’s 90th Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Dad!

When I was a kid he came home from work with a 16mm projector and a reel of film. “We’re going to watch a movie,” he said.

After dinner he threaded the projector. It was film of him, carrying out an experiment on the quantification of difficulty — while driving a car down Route 128.

When people asked me or my brother what my father did for a living, it was not an easy thing to explain.

It still isn’t.

We’re off to a family get-together with a lot of people celebrating at a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge. It should be fun.

By all means! I remember my dad showing us this on a 16mm projector back in the 60s…and then at school when the teachers asked, “What does you father do?” — It was not easy to explain or describe.

Warren,
Can I please post this on Facebook for friends because I spent quite a bit of time telling them about your dad (and mine!) and this is a priceless video. It does more to explain the insanity of my childhood than anything I could ever say. Hey! We thought that stuff was pretty normal. Now if only our highways were so uncrowded these days.

Thanks,
Maryanne

 

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