I’ve read several time that no one writes in cursive anymore. How bizarre, I can’t imagine “printing” letters, notes, etc. Can this really be true?
I don’t own an iPod or smartphone. I still buy CDs.
Let’s see… I don’t own a smartphone, have never texted anyone, and have never owned an Apple product.
I’m not on Facebook, I think Twitter is stupid, and I don’t see the point to tablets.
I often find myself starting sentences with an equivalent to “back in my day…”. I’m only 28.
I still find a woman’s natural pubic hair to be extremely attractive and/or erotic. To me, the shaved/shaped styles are just plain ugly.
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Sometimes I think I must be stuck back in the 20th century.
- still pay my bills by check and mail them.
- don’t have a cell phone.
- don’t own a flat screen T.V. or computer monitor. The T.V. and computer are
the old fashioned tube types. - don’t use a debt card - it’s either cash or credit card when I am shopping.
- I wear a watch - not a wrist watch but an pocket watch. I sometimes
get strange looks when someone asks for the time and I pull the watch out
of my pocket. - I figure my car is going to wear out in the next couple years and I want my
next car have a manual transmission. My present car is the only automatic I’ve
ever owned and it’s boring to drive. - And as I type this message I’m listening to music on phonograph record.
I am dismayed that nearly all the bookstores here have shut down. I’ve seen a Kindle. You know what a Kindle is good for? Huge books with walls and walls of text. Exactly how many of those does the average American read in a year? Look, I’ve used electronic reading devices; I’ve used Adobe for years. At best it’s inconvenient. There is no substitute for a good book. And don’t even get me started on magazines.
Same deal with video stores. If there’s a viable alternative to walking through the aisles, gazing from cover to cover, asking in-store clerks for recommendations, and finally making a choice and dropping it in the DVD player, I’m unaware of it. Playstation Network’s selection is minuscule (not even as much as a decent mom 'n pop store), and I find their rental policy at best constrictive. Netflix just plain confuses the hell out of me, with all their queues and rates and plans and times and lists…gah. I am watching far fewer movies now than the heyday of Blockbuster Video.
I’ve never even considered joining ITunes or any other online music service. Nearly every song that I’ve spent money on is on CD. I think having a physical medium only makes sense, especially as a backup (in fact, if it’s really important, make another backup and keep it in a safe place).
As far as I’m concerned, snap ratings on sites like IMDB and YouTube are meaningless. Any moron can click an icon. A hundred respondents disliked my review, you say? Did they give reasons? Did they give intelligent reasons? A hundred of nothing is nothing. If you can’t CONVINCE me that I was mistaken, you matter no more to me than a 3-year-old jumping up and down and screaming “Nooooooo!”
I use a typewriter at work. I don’t see anything the slightest bit unusual about this. A word processor can’t do everything or even close to it. Need to update a label? Typewriter. Fill out a form? Typewriter. Run off a sensitive personal note without risking someone sneaking into the IT office and snooping in on it (hey, it could happen)? Typewriter. There’s simply no substitute.
Yes, I still have a videocasette recorder. I know, I know, piece of junk. (The only electronic device I’ve ever owned that crapped out faster than a VCR was the Zip Drive.) But there are a lot of things released on VCR that simply never got converted to a modern medium. If I’m ever going to do my write-ups on UFC 9 through the second Ultimate Ultimate, I’d better keep that around.
I had no desire to allow anyone to bug me anytime, anywhere before I got a cell phone and I didn’t suddenly develop one after. I’ll turn that thing on when I feel like it. I’m especially mystified as to how some people can answer the phone while playing a video game. Pick your time waster and stick with it, dammit!
And yeah, I still go to the arcades. Don’t play anywhere near as much as I used to, but I still visit regularly. It’s a nice environment, a bit of good relaxing fun at the end of a busy day. Actually now that the bookstores, video stores, and music stores have shut down, there isn’t much else. Just gotta put up with the kids running around.
Note to person who left four messages on my cell phone from 5:00 to 5:30 Sunday morning: Having a cell phone does not mean you are entitled to reach me 24/7/366. There is a reason for the OFF button.