Tag Archives: Technology

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Speed

When I was growing up we had watched season of “Dallas,” as a family and had to wait months to find out if Bobby was dead. He wasn’t. The previous season was an intense dream / nightmare.

We watched new cartoons one episode at a time after school in our elementary days.

Now, seasons drop and you can stream them. You have a remote in your hand and would never have to get your ass off the couch to turn a dial.

You don’t develop pictures and wait to see which shots are terrible. And you can simply filter your photo so that your forehead and your elevens look soft.

Yes, our world is fast. Our world is slightly contrived.

Dating is like that too. You have a menu of all kinds of women and message them after viewing a picture. It’s fast.

It took me about three-weeks to find a local woman who’s about 75-minutes from me, and another woman who’s (sadly) in the Boston area. I have some feels about the latter because I was just there 5-weeks ago, and now it will involve some complicated moving parts for us to be together IRL. I see local woman on the 30th.

Do good things come to those who wait? How do you slow down in our world?

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Tech Fatigue

My laptop for work fizzled and died. In fact, it wouldn’t navigate to the Internet at all and I had to run a safety meeting with my boss and a family on a Chromebook, which kept lagging as I typed. It was awful. The battery wouldn’t charge anyway so it had been like lugging around a desktop. I think it was 4 to 5 years old and was a DELL, which our organization doesn’t use anymore. I finally got a Lenovo, which seems to be perpetually updating. Our main software for compliance is buggy and can’t tolerate people typing in it at the same time although it’s a cloud. At home, I downloaded after buying Webroot and can’t get the keycode to accept that it’s working–although it scanned my device weeks ago now.

Do you like computers? Software? Updates? Being glued to a screen for your work? Does the concept of a cloud being run by solar panels in NE freak you out?

I don’t feel like Gmail works anything close to the way in which Outlook does, but honestly, with all the emails that are sent now, I’ve not had to find a specific email recently. Don’t get me started on Drive. I can’t find anything efficiently in it and it reminds me of housecleaning. It would take me weeks to organize it and it’s picky with file names.

Becoming a robot and singularity

I remember the first time that I saw “Blade Runner,” and I found it so disturbing. I think that we’re there now. People dissociate on their phones in meetings. Kids extend their arms and stare at YouTube. I think that we need to take notice how AI has really started to our worlds. I think that although I get a tooth extracted a week from today, that I need to get outside as much as possible and better bike to work today.