Last Nox , at the age of 92 , writer , producer and observer Andy Rooney pass away after complications from minor surgery . While his life history cross more than sixty years , Rooney is well sleep together for his essays and commentaries at the oddment of CBS ’ 60 Minutes every week .
Between 1978 and October 2 , 2011 when he bed from the show , Rooney delivered 1,097 essays on a panoptic stove of topics — from politics , to pop refinement , to current result . His ‘ average guy ’ approach made him sense the spokesperson and voice of reason for the entire state . Well , the spokesperson and voice of reason for a country stick in the 1950s , perchance . Rooney was particularly skilful at being a techno - curmudgeon . But that ’s a good thing !
Sure , you could make fun of Andy Rooney for being terrify of his kitchen drawer and for pick his own unfitness to use a information processing system on Bill Gates , but you call for this kind of hombre around . Seriously ! Now that he ’s gone , who will speak out against the rearing bedspread of engineering science ? When the motorcar start marching down our streets and dragging us out of our homes , who will cock a furry eyebrow at the last human - powered telly program and croaking , I told you information processing system were a bad idea ! Nobody ! We ’ll miss you Andy .
So savour this ingathering of Rooney ’s comment on gadgets , hardware and his frustrations with engineering science ; they ’re some of our favourite .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1PO7nyyLn0
Andy Rooney on Bill Gates and data processor
Let me see that fifty year honest-to-god typewriter of yours serve up a biz of minesweeper .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUdll0YMrI
Andy Rooney on eBooks and eReaders
This one is just adorable .
Andy Rooney on Car Gadgets
Clearly Rooney has never seen a backseat full of toddlers instantaneously quieted when The Little Mermaid pop up on a railcar ’s infotainment system . He probably shut his kids up the erstwhile - fashioned way : by talking to them .
Andy Rooney ’s Kitchen gizmo
Andy Rooney ’s not the first mortal to declare a holy war against uni - tasking kitchen gadgets , but if you ’ve purchased a machine specifically designed for debilitate Anguilla sucklandii cans , I do n’t think you have much right hand to complain .
And Rooney and the Five bad Inventions We Can Live Without
I agree , venetian blinds are a tool forged by the Satan himself .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwi7NvDdX6 M
Andy Rooney on the Simpler Inventions that Improve our Lives
Come on , not even a leeeeettle love for the cellular phone ?
Andy Rooney ’s Desk Tools
Andy wishes the big smutty phone sit on his desk had the ability to fathom other than when someone he did n’t want to lecture to called . This is why you needed a cellphone , dude .
picture : AP Photo / Marty Lederhandler
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