An Anachronistic Analog Digital Dude
Posted: October 2nd, 2005 | Author: themarkpike | Filed under: Stuff |
My computer and I are going to take some time away from each other. She’s been acting up lately. It’s been making me mad. She’ll turn the screen on and off while I’m trying to type law school essays, like my ambition is something to play a practical joke on. She’s probably thinking of doing something right now while I’m typing this. She quit talking to me yesterday, her speakers just stopped working. The iPod gets tired after 45 minutes. Oh, and I don’t even want to talk about the time last month when the computer just blew up on me. Literally. Her powercord nearly caught my apartment on fire. I guess we lost our spark.
She’s got her reasons. She sees me checking out my other options. I was looking for an antique typewriter on ebay the other day, and she probably got jealous. I saw this beautiful Olivetti Valentine model, and I was reading about how they were only made for two years starting on Valentine’s Day 1969 (how poetically romantic is that?) and this particular typewriter I saw has a petite funky francophiliac “รง” on it (how romantic is that?!). I wrote the owner a few questions, to see if I could set something up. My computer somehow found out and flipped her lid. How dare I look at this sexy anachronistic technology!
Whatever. Just last week, I was about to kick my soviet-era LOMO out to the curb in favor of a new digital camera. I wanted to show my computer that I’m committed to this high-tech thing we’ve got going on. I was going to get her one of those shiny, cute Canon cameras. I decided to have one last fling with the LOMO (she hadn’t been working for me for about a year). But last week, things were better than ever. Picture perfect.
So, I’m going to take some time off from technology this week. I’m sending my computer to a spa, where they will rejuvenate her. And me, I need to sort things out in my head. I’m going to try and write on paper and really focus on saying exactly what I mean. I’m going to try and read books instead of blogs and I might even buy some postage stamps. I’m going to take a bunch of pictures with my Polaroid and my LOMO. I’m going to listen to some cassette tapes, maybe even some vinyl. I’m going to be an analog dude in a digital world— for a few days, just to remember how things used to be.
(Author’s note: I’ll be checking the status of my computer repair online from work every 10 minutes or so)
who do you like more bobby digital or the rza. i know this might come as a shock, but i really like bobby digital. now let’s talk about mark digital versus mark analog. i wonder who can eat more flesh off a mango. last night i dreamt that the two stood on opposing mushrooms and whacked each other with jousting sticks stolen from american gladiator, circa 1990. Mark Analog didn’t drink enough water, and halfway through sufferred the most excruciating leg cramps since shuzo matzuoka lost to peter korda in the second round of the US open a few years back and they had to change the rules…anways mark analog was cramping but because he is so damn crafty he sill somehow pulled out the match. still, this will be a long week, like the last week of the iditerod (sp?) and those the cold will freeze your digits off, i think the true champion will emerge with a gleaming smile and a new sense of self worth. that is all i have for now.
happiness and virtue
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