Tag: luddite

  • Resisting Technological Advances – A Tale As Old As Time

    I am a luddite. Some technological changes do not please me. I do not like the cloud. I do not like e-books. I do not like streaming music/videos. All of this has to do with the fact that I prefer physical possession of media. I enjoy scribbling notes in my books. I notice I don’t…

  • Reality Sometimes Hurts…

    So… FP Dorchak lauded my awesomeness on his page. I guess that means I’ll have to name a character in a book after him or something. I suppose Frank Dorchak could be a criminal mastermind somewhere in my steampunk series. Or maybe an engineer. Ooo… there’s a kid in the second one I was thinking…

  • An Introvert Trying to Sell … Anything

    I’m an introvert. I’ll pause while ya’ll gasp in shock. Sadly this doesn’t just go into physical interactions. It extends into the digital world as well. I do not understand Twiiter. I’ve tried, people my age (at the grand old ripeness of 39) and older have told me about the ease in which it works.…

  • A Luddite’s Musings

    The other day the husband and I had an errand to run and it turned out the meds wouldn’t be filled for another hour, so we decided to catch lunch, but nothing was quite open yet. Why not kill some time walking around? The sky is actually only partly cloudy and not raining for the…

  • Technology and Writing

    I lurk in dark and sordid places on the internet where I find writers are wont to gather. Sometimes I say something. Most times I do not. A while back, someone posted a request for information. Apparently, this person had sent out their manuscript to a few readers, and they’d come back with the critique…