One thing that I really enjoy is someone that publicly touts a very staunch viewpoint and then violates it at practically every turn. That is phenomenal cannon fodder for lots of teasing and ribbing. You are a self proclaimed Luddite yet you post up examples contrary to that belief system often enough that giving you shit for it isn't even standing on your tippy toes to get the fruit, it all hangs lower. You lob a softball over the plate slow enough, it is irresistible to swing away. You're also a bit more tender than I gave you credit for being the real life equivalent of "A Boy Named Sue".
Not exactly. I'm no luddite - I made my living in high tech my entire life, and I enjoy/like tech. What I don't like is stupid tech, un-necessary tech, poorly implemented tech, overpriced tech, and most especially tech designed to empty my wallet. Smartphones and touchscreens in dashboards are but two examples. There's a time and place for most things, but touchscreens don't belong in my dashboard and smartphones are incredibly bad tech for reasons I've elucidated elsewhere.
Be that as it may - as I said in another thread, I've been using, programming, building and even designing computers and computer hardware/software for long before most folks had ever seen one. "This ain't it" - much of the software being written today is incredibly bad. My programming knowledge is 99% obsolete, but the methodology to write good software hasn't changed - they're all Von Neumann Machines, although I actually wrote a small amount of software for a Harvard architecture system once upon a time.
Same goes for GPS for that matter - I've used those all the way back to the old one channel Magellans. I own 4 or 5 computers, some of them are even up to date. I have the usual plethora of CD/DVD players, a Kindle (which I *LOVE*), etc, etc. Yet I get called a "Luddite" because I won't buy into the whole smartphone nonsense or the lunacy of dashboard computers.
I don't pigeonhole well, because I don't buy anybody's "entire package" - be that politics, religion, technology, cars, guns, clothing (!!), what have you. I pick and choose what makes sense to me, and let the rest go by - until someone wants to poke at me about it!
Much like Blaine, come to think of it!
