My usual receptacle for coffee is an old fashinoed ceramic cup and saucer. I use that every day at the office, and at home I often use a porcelain cup and saucer.
I do this partly because I like the fact that a traditional coffeecup is smaller so it won’t cool down before I finish drinking it, but also because I love the retro look.
I also used to carry a pocketwatch but basically gave that up when I started carrying a cell phone. I still do own the watch, though.
I play classical guitar and have just about forsaken the blues and rock I used to play. I can almost play Asturias straight through, known to some people as “That Spanish guitar piece”.
I have an old British sports car I want to restore; a 1969 MG. It was my daily driver until '99. If I wanted the turn signals to flash, I had to move the lever up and down by hand.
I still use a film camera, a Honeywell-Pentax H2 35mm, from the early '60s.
Well this post is coming to you from the dominion of Canada and I can totally relate to wondering what ever happened to peking , bombay , burma and cambodia.
Mind you , as I notice that your posting from Australia , obviously they are letting the convicts have some computer privilges ,
Dial-up internet.
No cell phone.
Classical guitar.
Desire with drooling, for the Steampunk computer.
and most old school of all, I insist that my 8 year old child uses good manners.
I am given to wearing fedora hats and A-2 jackets.
I regularly use a fountain pen, and I write music with a pencil and staff paper.
I play nothing but 1920s-'40s vintage instruments (saxophones and clarinets).
I own loads of analog recordings including about half a ton (seriously) of 78s.
I own a cel phone but it sometimes goes for days without being picked up.
I have sent exactly one TXT in my lifetime.
I have no tattoos and no plans to get any.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only anachronism here! We’re all in good company.
I’ve been trying to track down a Candlestick phone and Phonograph MP3 player for my office (See? I’m not completely stuck in the past!), but an impending wedding (mine) is using up all my Random Cool Stuff fund…
When changing strings on my guitar, I use a tuning fork not an electronic tuner. This is about the same as doing your wash by the river using rocks.
This same passion, guitars, requires the use of an amp built with vacuum tubes - how freakin’ old school is that? Sure they make digital, solid state amps - that sound like ass for the most part.
Someone pointed out to me today that it is amazing I still memorize phone numbers. It’s not a conscious thing, but something I started doing about 20 years ago out of pure laziness–I got sick of looking them up all the time. Eventually, it got to the point where the second or third time I used a number I had it memorized.
In this era of speed dialing and cell phones, people do not memorize their phone numbers.
I don’t own a cell phone.
My camera is a 35mm.
Until earlier this year I was using a laptop computer from 1999.
I’ve seen more movies from the 1920s than 1987-2007.
I prefer that bank clerks and office receptionists address me as Mr. and not by my first name.
I’m reading The Iliad.
