27 ‘Outdated’ Things People Refuse To Stop Using

I’m not especially sentimental and so don’t have a lot of items that’re reminders of something important, but I have a couple dozen ticket stubs from Front 242 shows and they mean the world to me. I can flip through them and remember things that happened at the show, or the way they played a song, or Anton Corbijn’s videos screening behind ‘em, and all the amazing feelings come back. Unfortunately, the older I get the more the details become fuzzy, but it’s amazing to look at those little pieces of stuff paper and feel the energy and the wonderful bliss from those nights again. I don’t have many (any?) things that do this for me, but that little stack of stubs does it, and I think it’s pretty cool that these things which haven’t any heft and don’t take up any space can make me feel better than any antidepressant can. I didn’t even realize how important they are until I typed this post.

Despite having a device in my hands most waking hours, I *still* look at my watch when I wanna know the time or date. Even if I were to lose my watch, I’d keep right on looking at my wrist. I don’t really understand the hate so many people seem to have for analog watches; do they also hate rings, pendants, bracelets, and earrings? They’re jewelry, not boat anchors. I’m pretty sure I’ll be wearing a watch when I diе. Looking at a device for the date or time somehow doesn’t seem as real as looking at the metal on my wrist. I once had a Patek Philippe when I was a lot more successful; it was GORGEOUS, and I went through a lotta effort to get it sized for my 4.5” wrist (yes, they’re bird-like), and I still fantasize about having such a beautiful timepiece again. They’re physical representations of the passage of time, and a device is no such thing. (Do I sound 🦇💩 crazy? I really hope not, but I’ll take it if I must, just so long as I can wear a watch.)

Viscose is NOT a synthetic; it’s made from tree sap (primarily pine). It’s my favoritist fabric of all! The way it drapes on the body … nothing else comes close. And it’s sooo soft, especially when you make a chenille blanket or sweater! I’m wearing a very light rayon cardigan right now, and people were stopping and staring all day. It drapes and hugs every single curve (oh, alright: I have no curves, save for my generous mams, and people like looking at ‘em), and it feels as if I’m being massaged by angels when I wear viscose. (I TOTALLY don’t get her love for nylon, though; ICK! It’s great for tents, parachutes, and other utilitarian pieces, yet she prefers it to rayon?! I think she banged her head, HARD!)

This made me snort-laugh! I can’t believe how often I spot people using it! It’s weird how sooo many people picked a genuinely wretched OS to use seemingly forever, or at least until the wheels come off. And I hafta admit that I’m genuinely impressed people can still be productive with it thirty years later! 😀

While I enjoy the “fresh paper smell,” I’ll still take “old library smell” pages any day. I love thinking about people who read the book before I did, and old pages bring back memories of our library, which was 300 years old in 1973. (My hometown was founded before the US was, and our old library smelled like an old library. That was the best hung about it, as it wasn’t especially well-stocked.) (The town was tiny.)

Nice job, BP, finding an image to illustrate “Clock radio w/alarm.” 😀 (If AI picked this photo, then my worries about what AI might do will dissipate a LOT.) (While on the subject of AI, check out “Murderbot” on AppleTV. It stars Alexander Skaarsgard as a robot who’s hacked his control module and he’s now autonomous and he’s gotta hide that from the humans lest they give him an acid bath. He picked out the name “Murderbot” because he thinks it’s cool. It’s pants-wettingly funny! I dunno about you, but I’ve not laughed at TV since “What We Do in the Shadows” wrapped up, and it feels AMAZING to be able to laugh again!) (By the way, it’s from Chris and Paul Weitz (“About a Boy”). Enjoy!)