Remembering building a 12 MHz 286 and marveling over the speed and the massive 80MB full height hard drive that I would "surely never fill"
Building systems now that, at 3.0GHz and 1TB of storage that are barely modest by today's standards.
Feeling the effects of time.
@phoneboy This and pnut are my gardens. Facebook is the unruly back end of the property that gets brush hogged twice a year.
Twitter was paved over entirely.
I hear the pitter patter of little feet and muffle yelps outside my door.
Miniature eskimo needs to go potty and no-one else is available.
Great excuse to go outside for a minute, Lucky (the dog). Let's go.
I think he senses I have a new tire that needs marked.
I look back to when I had to set jumpers for everything plus solder the occasional network terminator.
I look at the present systems I am building.
I smile.
@larand On my wife's laptop I watched a small war between writers. The "use your platform for politics" versus the "I am here to create an escape from this. They hear it everywhere else" camps.
// @matigo
@larand Sidekick was on her author page and twitter account. Brought me her laptop so I could see what was going on.
I left at the right time.
@matigo Generic i5 stuff. Nothing special. Just gets me away from editors for a while.
@JeremyCherfas What always fascinated me was just how long they've been around.
@jws Only if you want to read a paragraph of vitriol about the subject :)
// @js