We have a tradition of buying an ornament for the tree that symbolizes something that happened in the past year. Back in ’98, when we were still relatively poor, a new computer was a big purchase for us, so we got this ornament.
When the kids noticed it the other day, they asked what a floppy disc was. Sigh, kids today…
105mm macro lens, 1/5 sec at f/3.2, ISO 800
Or why I love modern technology
I’m a child of the 80s, I graduated high school in 1988. Porn was mostly limited to Playboy, Penthouse, the occasional Penthouse Forums or *gasp* Cinemax on a Saturday night if I hoped to see a movie. One year, while we were still in college and dating, Veronica got me a subscription to Playboy because as she said at the time “I didn’t know your shirt size”. (See, she was a cool partner even then!)
Early on in our marriage, ’93-’95 or so, we lived near a shopping plaza that had a place that had an assortment of more explicit stuff. I’d occasionally pick something up and stash it somewhere in the apartment.
And then came the internet 
We signed up for an AOL account in 1995 and it didn’t take me long to discover different sites. (BTW, within the last year a friend gave me her real aka non-anonymous email address and it was an AOL address. Really? I had no idea the company still existed!). Anyway, I can remember the intentionally mislabeled 1.4 MB floppy disk that I kept my electronic porn stash on.
The next evolution came when we upgraded from dial-up to a cable modem, now I could find and download porn even faster! Oh, and there was streaming video too!
I can remember 6-8 years ago when Veronica and I mocked cell phones that integrated a camera. Why the hell would we need one of those? Cell phones are for phone calls! Hahaha, now we’ve got our iPhones which of course puts porn at my fingertips, whenever and wherever I want.
Porn is free now too! I can remember paying for a certain site or two, now there’s a plethora of free sites, plus various Twitter feeds, blogs, and Tumblrs. Not to mention certain friends that share intimate photos with me, that’s the best porn of all
The funny thing is, the more readily available porn has become, the less I masturbate. Though I still do on occasion…
I almost went there, but I refrained!
As I’ve mentioned before here and on Twitter, we’ve been without cable or broadband internet at home since around noon on Sunday. Comcast keeps telling us that they’re working on it, we keep waiting. Due to the power still being out at my office, I’ve had Monday and Tuesday off, which actually works out pretty good, since school starts for DB on Wednesday and we had no one to watch him.
Monday I kept suggesting activities, we could go for a bike ride, he could play with his friend next door, he has plenty of toys, there’s the Wii, he could read, and so on.
His response? Grumbling about the cable *still* being out.
One of these days, he WILL be getting the “when I was your age” lecture from me!
On the bright side, at least this won’t be happening anytime soon. I hope…
Including mine, so it seems!
No, not my beloved MacBook Pro, it’s doing just fine, I’m talking about my laptop at work.
Whether we are prepared or not, ALL computers die. Some die a natural death, giving plenty of notice, but some die suddenly, with no previous notice of hardware or software problems. Sometimes the cause of death is software related and is temporary, or “restorable.” Often it’s hardware related and permanent, you CANNOT get the information off the hard drive. It’s gone.
You can protect your hard work for when (NOT IF) that dreaded day comes. I was lucky, with my work laptop it was the video card that died, so it was relatively easy for the IT department to salvage the contents of the My Documents folder, since the hard drive was still okay. The laptop is done for though, the video card is integrated into the mother board and with a 3 1/2 year old computer it’s not worth it to repair it.
Even if it was the hard drive that failed, I would have been okay. We have both shared and private network drives and I regularly back up my files to the private drives, so at most I would have lost a couple days of files. At home Veronica and I each have an external drive for backing up our respective computers, so as long as I remember to back everything up once in a while, we’d be okay.
How about you, are you prepared for the day WHEN your computer dies?
105 macro lens, ISO 400, F/3.0, 1/8 sec
Time: 9:00 pm
Place: Hotel Room
Somehow I managed to forget to pack the charging cable for my iPhone. I thought about seeing if I could make it until I landed in Providence, RI Friday evening, only using the phone to make calls as necessary (remember those days?). However by Thursday evening the battery was down to less than 20% power, so I gave in and picked up a new charger and cord at the Target conveniently located just down the road from my hotel.
Several weeks ago I asked How young is too young over on Hot Dads, as Veronica and I were thinking about getting a cell phone for DB. We decided that not only isn’t he too young but for our peace of mind, we needed to get one for him, so Friday he and I went out and picked out a phone for him. Picking a phone was easy- this one was free!
It even takes pretty nice pictures! Here’s one of Veronica and one of me to show you
With my apologies to Dangerous Lilly…
I’ve been lusting for an iPhone for months now. Today, Veronica and I happily paid the early termination fees for our Verizon Wireless accounts [I was not waiting another 15 months for the contract to expire!] and made the switch.
Isn’t it nice? No, not Veronica’s tits, the phone!!
Thanks to cell phone number portability, we were able to keep our numbers, saving us the headache of notifying the masses. With the release of the next generation iPhone and OS 3.0 later this week, Apple and AT&T are deeply discounting the 3G 8GB model, so that’s what we each got. We’ll be able to update the OS when 3.0 comes out, so until then my picture messaging ability may be impaired.
Anyone care to suggest some cool and/or useful and/or useless apps? Leave me a comment!
Come back tomorrow for some erotic fiction and see my contribution to this weeks edition of “Ask the Hot Dads“
Goodnight tweeps - posted on 07/02/2012 22:41
