21 years ago today

The original Macintosh was launched. Wow.

Go to that link and you can, via the main site and lots of mirror sites, see the insanely rare moment itself, captured on Betamax and only recently unearthed and digitized. There was only one known copy in the entire world, and now it's immortalized.

From the home office in Wahoo, Nebraska

David Letterman presents:

Top Ten Bush Goals For His Second Term

10. Fewer idiotic remarks; more hilarious pratfalls.

9. Add mother Barbara to Mount Rushmore.

8. Combine Nebraska and Kansas into new state: Nebransas.

7. Spice up boring state dinners with tasty fish sticks!

6. Improve communication skills from poor to fair.

5. Catch up on his "Smokey And The Bandit" collection.

4. Get Ray Stevens to write some funny lyrics for "Hail To The Chief"

3. Ride every roller coaster in the country.

2. Install remote-activated button in Oval Office so he can blow stuff up right from his desk!

1. Begin vote-rigging process for Jeb's White House run in 2008.

I'm watching the Tonight Show tribute to Johnny

And I have to tell you I'm going to miss that man so very, very much.

I don't think I need to say it, but Friday and very likely Saturday night's main events for the shows this weekend will be my treasured copy of the Tonight Show 10th Anniversary album.