A friend of mine called to my attention that old age, or 2008 or global warming (we'll never know which) has sparked a gadget-freakiness in me that didn't previously exist. In general, I am a dinosaur: I was late to CDs, late to digital cable, late to TiVo/DVR, WAAY late to iPods, barely understand online networking and still have a tape deck in my car. Perhaps some of you are too young even to know what "tape deck" means.
Of late, though, I have embraced technology with gusto. This year I:
- started reading blogs (before, if it wasn't on paper, I wasn't going to read it)
- oh yeah, started a blog!
- got a touch-screen all-in-one computer which I love
- found the coolest letter opener I've ever seen. Doesn't make opening bills fun, though
- finally got a text plan. Yeah, I was that person who kept track of who texted me and demanded the 50 cents they owed me for uanauthorized texts
- scoured the Internet trying to find the date the BlackBerry Bold was coming out b/c it had GPS (good replacement for my unit that was stolen earlier this year) and synced with iTunes (yes, I finally did get that iPod)
- got rid of hard copy subscriptions to magazines and instead got an e-book reader. I think Amazon's Kindle is the best one, but now I notice many people on the train use these to avoid the origami fold you have to do with the New York Times
- and possibly best score of all, this neat little stapler that doesn't use staples. Container Store is a little slice of heaven.
This love affair with technology has also shown me easier ways to be green. For example, not getting catalogs from 72 companies I'd never order from anyway. Not throwing away two newspapers every day. For the longest time, being green was too hard, and meant for people who had children who might be affected if the planet died, but not me. Technology has made being green accessible.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm no locavore and everything about paper plates feels "right" to me. But baby steps, right? Even for the super freaky.
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