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One Number To Rule Them All

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One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones

A couple of excerpts:

Its motto, �One number for life,� pretty much says it all. At GrandCentral.com, you choose a new, single, unified phone number (more on this in a moment). You hand it out to everyone you know, instructing them to delete all your old numbers from their Rolodexes.

From now on, whenever somebody dials your new uninumber, all of your phones ring simultaneously, like something out of �The Lawnmower Man.�

SWITCH LINES Anytime during a call, you can press the * key to make all of your phones ring again, so that you can pick up on a different phone in midconversation, unbeknownst to the person on the other end. For example, if you�re heading out the door, you can switch a landline call to your cellphone � or as you arrive home, a cell call to a landline, in order to save airtime minutes.

Great 70s Watches

I love watches, even though I only own one. Here's a site with loads of terrific 70s watches, when watch designers were spilling over with great, crazy, beautiful work.

70s-watches.com

And here are shots of some of my favorites. All images are links to the seller's site, and could be removed by him at any time. Note that this site is in the UK, so prices are in pounds. One pound is about $2. Yikes!

Omega Equinoxe Reversible Analogue/Digital 1981

Price �950

It flips over!


Longines Wittnauer Futurama Flyback

Price �2000

When the minute hand reaches the bottom, it "flies back" to the top!!

1978 Heuer Ford RS Motorsport, All Boxes And Papers...Probably the Only One For Sale Today Anywhere!!

Price �3800

Amazing. The Ford logo is in the upper LCD display!!! The batteries are behind those things that intentionally look like spark plug pods!!!!

Film: Annie Hall

Is there anything not to love about Annie Hall (1977)? If there is, I didn't find it, and am not interested in probing too deeply in search of flaws.

Neurotic man meets ditsy woman. The fall in love. They fall out of love.

But, along the way, director and star Woody Allen pulls film making stunt after stunt, and introduces the craziest characters who ever appeared in real life, to make his final point about love, summed up in an old joke. But you've gotta see the movie to get the sweetness of his punch line to that joke.

And, may I say, Diane Keaton is beautiful, funny, silly, sensitive, sexy, and--what else?--brilliant.

Coming up: photos of almost every actor who's name I recognized. I didn't get several, including Sigourney Weaver's screen debut.

Talk show host Dick Cavett, and actor Mark Lenard, who is famous in Star Trek for playing a Romulan, a Klingon, and a Vulcan (namely Spock's father, Sarek).

"If only it were this easy." Woody Allen brings Marshall McLuhan (right) into the film to tell self-important movie goer Russell Horton, "You know nothing of my work!"

Carol Kane with Woody. You might remember her as the crone wife of Miracle Max in the movie The Princess Bride

Diane Keaton being romanced by future Lionel Luther (from Smallville) John Glover. Some of us even remember Mr. Glover as The Devil in the sadly short-lived series Brimstone.

Woody Allen showing his, and Keaton's, thoughts during a conversation.

Yes, next to Keaton, that's the very funny Christopher Walken

Placid and hysterical Colleen Dewhurst

The wonderful string bean of Hollywood, Shelly Duvall

Could any man not fall in love with Diane Keaton?

Paul Simon, showing he's not just a fine musician

Prior to becoming a big star, Jeff Goldblum, in a bit part, utters the memorable, "I forgot my mantra."