I drink a lot of old fashions.
That sounds pretty cool and all, but why?
I do too. I was never able to get used to an electronic calender
I’m not going to spurn new-fangled things that do work and make my life easier; I think you have to approach it thoughtfully, like most other things in life - is this worth it, to make a change? Am I just changing for change’s sake? Am I resisting change just because I’m an old fart and I’m not comfortable with learning new things? Is this something I actually need, or is this a manufactured need?
I am no youngster, but I have always been fascinated by new technology and have been as early an adopter as my budget would allow. But there are some things I continue to use because tech is my second language and as anyone knows who is multilingual, you will always be the most comfortable with your native language.
Although there are multiple ways to tell time’ I will always wear a wristwatch and keep an analog clock in my office. While I know that the time is displayed on my phone and computer, when someone asks me the time, I immediately glance at my wrist.
I am also a faithful Franklin planner user and I use the leather binder with paper pages. I take it everywhere and would be lost without it.
I have a reader and love it for travel. It’s easy to hold, carry, and can double as a computer if required. But when I’m at home curled up with a book, it has to be the old weighty tome with dogeared pages to mark my place.
I still send emails and post to message boards.
In addition to digital photography, I also still use film from time to time.
I have an image in my head of the old cartoon where an automated machine takes a tree and grinds it down to a single toothpick.
Since our microwave died we’re back to 1960’s style popcorn making, reheating of leftovers, and so forth.
My sewing machine is treadle powered.
I still write my grocery list by hand, on paper.
I still pay some bills with paper checks. Which I fill out in cursive.
Still use an analog wrist watch.
Still read treebooks about half the time.
When I make cookies or muffins or bread all mixing is done by hand. I don’t own an electric mixer.
Still use a hand crank can opener.
Still have a church key for non-twist bottle tops.
I still use a paper address/telephone book.
Kitchen tools are their own beast - many are worthless, especially when they are single-use. I don’t use a hand can opener to be contrarian or something but because I’m not spending money on something that wastes counter space and isn’t an faster. I use a “fancy” side-cut one though. No reason to use the top cut ones. And it can also open beer!
I still have a feature phone (“dumb phone,” most of which can get limited internet, but if I wanted to pay for that I’d get a smartphone).
Wow, you’re so old school you don’t believe in this newfangled -ed thing!
::golf clap::
I still have cable TV.
Almost everything. As I have said elsewhere, I may be Lutheran but I am this ({}) close to being Amish. And conservative at that. I send letters as much as I do e-mail, I prefer flintlocks and flyrods for sport, I enjoy rugby more than American football, I like walking more than I do driving, and the last time I got a message on my cell phone it was over 4 months old. And if it wasn’t for a flat on the Harley I wouldn’t have found out about it then. I make a lot of the things I need and shop at stores more than I do Amazon. And I hope to say the same 10 years from now.
My grandmother still mashes her garlic with a fork, instead of using a garlic press. As for me, in my grad school classes a couple years ago, I would often be the only one using a pen and a notebook instead of a laptop. I also usually mix cookie dough or cake batter by hand, instead of using a mixer.
I buy CDs rather than downloading MP3s
What kind of machining do you do? One of the machine shops I use in Austin is run by a guy who refurbishes older machines, but not that old.
I remember that! It was a Chip and Dale cartoon, I think, where they were living in a tree that got cut down and taken to the mill, where each individual, mature tree was turned into one toothpick. I think of that often in our modern, wasteful world.
I hire strolling players to lampoon me in ballad form on the village green, rather than resorting to modern self-parody online.
I’ve got you beat. Mine has iOS 3.