Posting sporadic, due to technical difficulties

By technical difficulties I mean that my computer isn’t turning on at all. Guess that hard drive just got tired of multiple podcast, blog post, and web design projects and just decided to quit. Never fear though, the good ‘ol Best Buy warranty has come to the rescue and I should be back up and running in the next few days or so. I’m typing on my wife’s computer before she needs it for class today. Not having a computer easily available, just for the past day, has reminded me how much I depend on it (with an internet connection) for so many things. Here’s a brief list of things I WOULD have done on the computer, but had to use alternatives for.

  • Look up Best Buys phone number (used the yellow pages)
  • Get directions to Best Buy (asked and then guessed)
  • Check the weather (guessed it was cold)
  • See if my library books on hold where in. (didn’t)
  • Put a book I just read about on hold (didn’t)
  • Checked my most recent bank and loan balances (didn’t)
  • looked up mutual funds info (didn’t)
  • Paid some bills
  • wrote a response to something I read (used a notebook)
  • That’s just a brief list. Now some of those things I have chosen to be dependent on a computer for (paying my bills), but others it’s much easier to do with a computer (check weather or directions) or not really even possible without (look up mutual funds info).

    One might argue we’ve become too dependent on computers, and I’d probably agree. I think we’ve also become to dependent on phones, and cars, and toilets.

    Do you think you could one day start living with no modern conviences? (maybe sort of like the Amish…)