Tag: technology
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Taking the Good with the Bad
Today has been mostly good. I’m well loved and well fed. The technology that my life depends on remains intact. The refrigerator works, so does the house fan, and the internet. I was able to rip some CDs onto my computer. I haven’t had to change a light bulb. I still got screamed at a…
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Turning the Car Around
I sometimes joke that Gen X should turn everyone’s internet off for a week and make the world survive like we are in the 80s again. I remember being in the backseat of my parents car and going somewhere we really wanted to go. If we acted up my parents would threaten to turn the…
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The Commodore 64
Write about your first computer. I wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons and heard about a Commodore 64 game called Pool of Radiance. I needed the game of course which came on 5&1/4 inch floppy disks. I believe there were a total of 8 in the set. To play it I needed a Commodore 64…
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Five Strengths
Share five things you’re good at. I am a decent parent. I’m sometimes a little rough on my kids emotionally. I’m not a boys don’t cry type, but I also worry about them when they cry over little things. I have always tried to be available and supportive. My own parents are some of the…
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Distillation
What technology would you be better off without, why? People have been experimenting and perfecting distillation throughout history. I have been sober for a little over a week and would really be better off if people weren’t so ingenious about distilling sugar. Alcohol is going to kill me if I don’t keep it out of…
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Gratitude
I am always disheartened by people who can’t see how amazing modern life is. The world is phenomenally better than it was 200 years ago. I live a life now that couldn’t have even been dreamt of by kings then. I have clean hot and cold running water, a refrigerator to keep food fresh for…
Latter Day Sinner 