tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post2562233488829883858..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Technology nostalgia Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50040673090610457242016-03-19T14:26:50.212-05:002016-03-19T14:26:50.212-05:00We can adore the past, yet the present is too conv...We can adore the past, yet the present is too convenient to do without. Both are (were) good.Tom S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04976079581280071356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23894098162117280142016-03-19T13:06:12.907-05:002016-03-19T13:06:12.907-05:00A foot in each world, I enjoyed flipping through ...A foot in each world, I enjoyed flipping through dictionaries and reading encyclopedias. Would sit and while away time. Loved rushing to the mailbox, hopefully tomorrow find birthday cards, letters from family, friends, and for a couple giddy years, boyfriends. But. Now enjoy emailing daily with out of state family, vacuums cleaners anyone can afford, the ability to immediately look up anything, Parts Warehouse, air conditioning that doesn't sound like an airplane, has to be sat in front of or needs the hay-like pad to be watered. And a phone I can use when the anything goes wrong with the car. Bar bets have lost the luster of days of discussion though, and I'm certainly at the age that candlelight would be most flattering. okiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414998405758030304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33066507291008167862016-03-19T09:42:30.848-05:002016-03-19T09:42:30.848-05:00Burning the house down with candles happens today ...Burning the house down with candles happens today as well. In fact, a neighbor some 30 years ago, lit his house with candles during a power outage and cost himself a pretty penny while providing the neighborhood with a exciting diversion, even though the house only burnt part way to the ground.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-85149992240250030452016-03-19T08:40:34.712-05:002016-03-19T08:40:34.712-05:00Neil notices things most of us would overlook and ...Neil notices things most of us would overlook and has the gift of using them to remind us of what our lives are, or could be,like, a gift he shares with some famous historical practitioners of the personal essay. Beautifully done.<br /><br />Edward Arlington Robinson wrote a fine, funny poem about a chap enamored of what must have been a most uncomfortable past.<br /><br /> "Miniver cursed the commonplace<br /> And eyed a khaki suit with loathing.<br /> He missed the medieval grace<br /> Of Iron clothing."<br /><br />Imagine life before toilet paper.<br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67375940804927593212016-03-18T20:34:41.269-05:002016-03-18T20:34:41.269-05:00I agree that advances in technology are always goo...I agree that advances in technology are always good. I couldn't imagine life without tv, dishwashers or email (in that order). I believe the only thing that ever really changes in society is technology.<br /><br />LindaBLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07023427375867309963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-26887617199538982862016-03-18T20:30:35.949-05:002016-03-18T20:30:35.949-05:00Very true and those who gripe about technology in ...Very true and those who gripe about technology in general are often unfamiliar or threatened by what they don't understand or change in general.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com