"It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting,' she said.
The Berlin Wall was a thing of chicken wire and Kleenex compared with the barrier that once stood between film and television in America.
Tech gurus have for some time been predicting the Internet of Things, the wiring together of all our devices to create "ambient intelligence" — an unseen fog of digital knowingness.
4. (S) Afghan Border Police 3rd Zone Deputy Commander Col. Sharif was more interested in insurgent interdiction, and credited Blackwater training for the detailed list of seizures that included, among other things, 20 radios, 450 meters of wire, 800 detonators, and 62 prisoners.
One of the things The Wire is superb at - and which becomes possible because of its structure - is showing how politics and finance both underscore and overwhelm decisions taken on the ground.
The timing is certainly right on, both in terms of getting into the holiday swing of things just under wire and the fact that, just about this time last year, the company held a major event here in the city, in which it showed off a bunch of new pieces of hardware, including the Surface Pro 4, Microsoft Band 2 and debuted the Surface Book laptop.
I have seen this tall drink of sexy in three things: The Wire, Thor, and this one episode of Absolutely Fabulous where he played a gigolo.
A dramatic personal event embodying the extremes of human psychosis is exactly the kind of thing The Wire's employees are rigorously trained to overlook.
Sometimes I build mannequins from all kinds of things, from chicken wire and paper towels, even old dolls.
Workers take photos of things like wiring issues, for example, and explain the technical components in the app.
