Comments on: Once upon a time

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:05:53 +0000

Well I’m back and did miss the thing like crazy!

Makes you wonder how we managed before.

By: Frits

Frits — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:34:54 +0000

I couldn’t do without my sweet computer,
internet is great.

But I could do well without a pc some time if necessary. 48? 72?

By: TechZ

TechZ — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:04:59 +0000

I don’t even own a MP3 player

Mobile Phone, PC, Laptop. I think that’s all my tech right there. I don’t use my mobile except for when I really need to, I’m lazy like that

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:22:57 +0000

Actually, on the days when I do have that big commute (only on school days, and the fall term doesn’t start for two more weeks) I usually don’t take my ipod with me. Also, it’s been about a week since I last played a video game. And until last night, it had been at least the same amount of time since I turned on my DVD player.

And I want to see you try picking up deadwood for hours in an apple orchard by yourself with no music. It’s bad enough that I can’t have music when I’m working in the machine shop (chopsaws and lathes are loud, imagine that)…

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:36:04 +0000

Hi Karen. 72 hours without using your computer. Good job. Now that you’re back on, how do you feel being on it again? Will you be making up for it with an all night internet session?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:30:01 +0000

I was forced to give up my computer for 72 hours because as you know I moved on the weekend and the cable people came on Monday to set me up again…

I missed it, of course…but then again even if I had access, I still was way too busy to be online…giving up my cellphone is easier for me because I only use it in emergencies and mostly use my land line for all important calls

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:36:25 +0000

Hey Luke. You must have some electronic thing you can give up? How about not playing with a game console for 24-48 hours?

Since you have a radio in your car, it should be easy to give up a music player for 24 hours. A radio is better then nothing.

C’mon, suck it up you can do it.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:11:39 +0000

If I weren’t waiting on a relatively important text message, I’d give up my cell phone. That probably doesn’t mean too much though, as I’ve held maybe two conversations on it in as many months. Hell, I left it off for an entire week or so sometime earlier this summer. Really, my cell is just used like a watch with ambitions…

I’m not going to give up any of my music players. I have a daily commute of 2+ hours with only a radio. Nope, my car can’t play CDs or mp3s, or even tapes, so you’re not taking away any of my other music.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:53:38 +0000

It depends on the time of the year; sometimes I have projects I *must* get on with over the weekends, and as much as I can do a fair bit of work on paper (UML, code design etc) there will eventually be a point where I’ll need to use a computer.

Other times, such as the summer when things are traditionally a bit quieter, I find it not so hard. Sometimes it’s all too easy to get wrapped up in the Internet, gaming, programming – whatever gets you going – and forget that there’s a whole world out there!

It took me a fair while to get used to at first, but once you stop being ‘bored’ and itching to get back on to a computer there’s so many other things to fill your time with.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:16:34 +0000

Hi Gareth. Good job on taking a break from technolgy on the weekends. How long did it take before you were ok with it and not itching to get on the computer?