“Most dreaded phrase at any gathering that has no easy exit: “Want to see my vacation photos?”
Back in the day, this painful experience was not digitally delivered but came through a big production called The Slide Show. People hunched in the dark amid the clicking and whirring of a machine that beamed a cone of light onto a screen, wall or sheet. About every fifth slide or so, heads snapped to shoulders — better for upside- down viewing. On and on droned the narrator. “Here’s the Grand Canyon in a rainstorm,” although it looked neither grand nor wet and could have been a close-up of the driveway for all you could tell….. read more