It’s been some time, friends, and once again the ol’ Think About It Central mailbag is full to bursting with those desperate, pleading missives from our Legion of Frantic Fans, hoping for a few choice nuggets of my wisdom to help them get along in their daily life. Clearly, I have no choice but to acquiesce. Let’s see what our first reader has to ( Read more... )

Considering my current quest in life, the hunt for a new computer, I thought it would be interesting to go back and read the column I wrote the last time I did something like this. Originally presented on April 19, 2003:

THE QUASI-LUDDITE'S COMPUTER QUEST

It wasn’t something I was planning to do anytime soon, particularly because every time I do ( Read more... )

I think it’s over.

It’s so hard when a relationship ends. Especially one like this, where we’ve been through so much together. My eBay fixation of 2004, my frustrated struggles to get a story finished for Nanowrimo 2006. Trips to and from Pittsburgh, and of course, that infamous evacuation all the way to San Antonio in 2005. But sometimes, no ( Read more... )

Quick vocabulary lesson:  A "Luddite," for those of you who don't know (primarily my ninth-grade English students) is a person who does not believe in or trust technology. This philosophy, named for the preeminent Irish/Scottish philosopher Seamus O'Macintosh, is one wildly embraced by crackpots living in sheds in the woods and people who write ( Read more... )