Another tablet enters the mix

Jasmine blossoms, 17 June 2022. Minolta XD-5, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 lens, Lomography 800 film I’ve had a weird relationship with technology, especially when it comes to computers. I was an early adapter only once, when my dad bought me an Apple IIc for Christmas 1984. 1 I avoided getting an email address until 2000,...

On the nostalgia and reality of a past decade

Camera: Minolta XD5 Lens: Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Ultramax 400 The rule of thumb is that nostalgia for a particular decade occurs twenty years after it happens. This is because people in their teens to early twenties during that decade would be in their thirties or older when the nostalgia comes around. It's...

But now it’s archaic technology: A look back at ten years of “internet all the time”

This May marks a small yet significant personal milestone: Before I left on my Trans-Oregon Tour on this day in 2010,* I purchased an iPod Touch. Yeah, it's just a piece of electronics, a very outdated one now. But it marked a big change in my life. From that point on, I would have access...