For now, I’ve resorted back to my old iBook, the one with the crack in it, because — well — long boring story that ends with me yelping and sighing and growling at my sister’s semi-new MacBook. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT THEIR TRACKPAD TO BE THAT SENSITIVE? Cursors flying everywhere, tabs being dragged all over the place, random clicks that aren’t meant to be clicked! (Sorry if this makes absolutely no sense.) I know there’s a way to change the settings but GAH! I just want to post on my website. Sigh. I miss this old clunker. The loud keys, the little Flaming Hot Cheeto stains, my awful spew of desktop icons. Why can’t we go back to the way we used to be?
I’m realizing that I’m kind of a grandma when it comes to adapting to technology. Or anything new for that matter. Take, for instance, my car. It’s a 1998 Volvo S70 and it’s had literally one million problems since my parents bought it and everyone around me is always like, PLEASE GET RID OF THAT CURSED TANK, but I kind of love it still. They don’t make cars like these anymore. If King Kong tried kicking it, he’d break his foot and I wouldn’t feel a thing.
And then there’s my phone. It’s … a phone. It makes calls and takes blurry pictures and plays music and has text messaging capabilities. ISN’T THAT ENOUGH? But of course it’s not enough because I don’t have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I don’t care. I don’t want to join your stupid club. “Oooh, Twitterberry!” “Oooh, hold down a key and it becomes a capital letter!” “Oooh, what’s your code number? Let’s IM!” Whatever. I’m still cool.
And then there’s all the stuff that comes with my profession. When I was your age, in conducting interviews, we used trusty pens and notebooks. In the past couple years, I slowly adapted to a cassette recorder, which was a major step. Now they want us to learn about multimedia technology — podcasting, slideshows, digital video — yowza! Life is hard. And keep it down! I’m trying to watch Law & Order.
The bottom line: I’m not good with change, but that, I suppose, must change.
ahhaha i dont have a blackberry.. but i have a nifty flip phone that flips two ways… want me to show you how?!??!
kids these days. i tell ya.
at least you aren’t watching matlock. ;)
Michelle, I totally hear ya. I still use a spiral-bound academic planner. There is something about being able to write my schedule down, cross things out as I do them or if they get cancelled, and know that my life is contained in this cute spiral notebook instead of in some palm-sized gadget.
I do have the iPhone though. And I’m kind of obsessed with it.
You know I’m in that Blackberry Club, but Jen is right. There is something about being able to free form write that you can’t get out of computer (unless you’re using a tablet PC).
I started carrying around a Moleskine style notebook around with me to write notes in anytime I have a thought for work. That way I don’t lose things and I can decide later when if/when I want to come back to the idea.
I was always a paper and pen kind of gal, but I recently crossed over to the Dark side, got an iPhone, and found that there is pretty much an application for everything in my life!
I’m similar to you, but I tend to hold out for two reasons: fiscal incentives (new tech reduces my ability to tap into the beer fund) and because I’m too lazy to set up new gadgets!
me too. and, i love this part of your post:
yowza! Life is hard. And keep it down! I’m trying to watch Law & Order.
My favorite quotes:
“They don’t make cars like these anymore. If King Kong tried kicking it, he’d break his foot and I wouldn’t feel a thing.”
- I have that same affinity to my own car, my very first car which I still own, where I just paid about 1/8th value of the car to have major service done to it so it can last me another 100k miles (I hope).
““Oooh, Twitterberry!” “Oooh, hold down a key and it becomes a capital letter!” “Oooh, what’s your code number? Let’s IM!” Whatever. I’m still cool.”
- Your coolness has entered the tenure status.
Here ye, here ye. I think I win. Here’s why:
- I have a Nokia phone. IT DOESN”T FLIP OPEN. It doesn’t have a camera. It doesn’t play music. AND IT WORKS BETTER THAN ANY CRACKBERRY OUT THERE.
- My car is 10.5 years old. I’ve been driving it since high school.
- I don’t own an i-pod. Just a few broken CD players, and a few that work. I’m tired of all the switching! First from cassettes to CD’s. Now to digital? It is too much for me.
- Oh…and I usually get a lot of flack for still using AOL. Whatever. I love it.
Shivani: You win.
I still like Pit Fall on Atari
We definitely have this in common. I had one of those black Nokia cell phones, the ones that were as heavy as a brick. Everyone laughed at me, but I loved that phone. I dropped it last year, and it was so old they couldn’t get the parts needed to fix it. So now I have some thin, pink phone. It’s lightness frightens me.
And your car story? Yep… I’m there too!
i still use windows 2000. the other day paul said… you know that OS is almost ten years old right? maybe its time to upgrade to XP.
Whoops.
but he won’t sell his 87 toyota truck for a more family oriented car. so 2000 stays. :P