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  • CDs Deceased, DVDs Done For

    Which outdated technology do you miss the most, and why? I miss CDs. I miss the days when my computer games were on CDs. I could go to the store and buy an oversized cardboard box that contained a small disc and maybe a booklet, then I went home and popped the CD in my… Read more

  • Farewell to Cents

    If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? Farewell, paper money. Farewell dollar bills. Farewell pennies and nickels. You were good friends, but your time is over. The credit card now rules supreme. I regret the trend of cash payments dying off. Credit and debit cards are handy in a pinch,… Read more

  • State of Gaming in 20 Years

    What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years? Gaming hardware has entered a bit of a lull in the last ten years or so. Since the 1980s, video game technology was engaged in a race toward realism – realistic graphics, realistic physics, realistic lighting, etc. Now that that has been achieved,… Read more

  • When the Future Was a Distant Gleam

    What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now? As a kid I never truly believed I would grow up and go to college. Silly, of course, to all us adults reading this post, but time is skewed for a child. A week seems like a year, a year is practically… Read more

  • Them Tasty Mushroom Burgers

    What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger? How appropriate that as the U.S.A.’s July 4th celebration rapidly approaches, I put up a post about burgers. Actually, not about burgers in general. Mushroom burgers, specifically, and how they changed my mind about mushrooms. You see, as a kid, I hated mushrooms. I… Read more

  • In Praise of Reading

    Reading is a truly wonderful invention. What do great writers of history have to say about it? Let’s find out. I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. Wisława Szymborska There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky… Read more