Fantastic! The Players' very own and very wonderful hannamime has started a blog. Three cheers!She begins with reference to her commendable attitude of (quote) "I-communicate-with- people-not-machines".
I can almost sense the Windows alert pop up on my frontal lobe.
Back when I was a teenager, I was the proud owner of a Sinclair ZX81. My goodness, the things that it was possible to do with 1K of memory and a cassette recorder! Well, you had to. The infamous RAM-pack wobble rendered the luxury of 16K particularly unstable. Mine was secured with hi-tech blu-tac. But Space Invaders on less than 1K, using a touch-sensitive keyboard, was a reality that almost beggars belief in these megapixel, gigabyte-hungry days.
I then went into computer stasis just at the time that everybody else was packing up their magnetic tape and getting all floppy. So to speak. And I was nearly 30 before I used the Internet or a mobile phone. That's partly a generation thing, of course, but also because I was more into being a humanist. Into, well, people rather than machines. I used to say things like "never trust a machine that can only count up to one."
However, since rediscovering the silicon habit, I've been determined not to be a doddery technophobe. I have embraced e-mail and have gone so cyber with Flickr, Twitter, and Blogger that these are now part of my daily routine. Feel the pulse of that street cred, dudes! So much so that I read words such as "I-communicate-with-people-not-machines" and wonder. Have I sold out and transferred my capacity for communication onto ether? Is this blog entry just another example of the same?
Uh-oh!
Self-search in progress. Please wait.
6 comments:
I think you only need start worrying when you take a lap top with you to the pub and, instead of sitting with the rest of us at a table, you hide in the loo all evening and chat with us over IM or Twitter ;)
Charnel, where do you think I send all my twitter from anyway? Heh!
Please tell me "laptop" is one word. I'm getting terrible visuals involving Bruce with the upper part of an anonymous lap.
Good morning, consider yourself tagged
http://futureofmypast.blogspot.com/2007/04/tagged-again-obsessions.html
Note to self: in future, remember to spell and grammar check and proofread even blog comments, text messages, and hell why not even all those post-it notes to myself about shopping and removing that screw from the dust bag (two words) in case I ever do get anywhere with my writing career, get mildly famous and someone robs them from my rubbish bin for a whatever the future version of a ‘letters’ might turn out to be and publishes them full of withering [sic]s …
"withering [sic]s" just made up for lap top plus gave you a grace period of, say, three years...
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