Yesterday Hub Man and I went to Fry's Electronics.
(That was your first mistake right there.)
I was in the market for a couple of these. . .
little.....
thingys....
[album 65561 Flash 001.jpg]
Now I am sure a whole bunch of you will know exactly what you are looking at. Others like myself, [until yesterday] might not have guessed.
These are flash drives. You stick one of these in a port in the computer and it is like a little mini hard drive. 2 gigs to be exact. The one with the heart on it has my entire novel, and a very large assortment of poetry and essays stored on it right now. The other one has all my photos from all my folders on my computer.
These things are about the size of a packet of Pez candies. Cost me 9.99. [on sale plus a mail in rebate... otherwise would be about 22 something, in the spirit of full disclosure.] And for some reason they just tickle my rather infintesimal techie bone to the max. They are so elegant, so small and can hold so much stuff!!!
Oh I am such a conflicted Luddite.
It's hard to live in my skin today.
But it is also hard not to marvel at such a strange way of keeping your creative endeavors in one place. I mean I remember Mr. Spock poking little plastic disks into the computer all those years ago thinking it was all so futuristic ... and acting so blase' about it... I'll bet even he would have gone all ga ga over one of these little numbers. Had he run across one in the local computer store.
They do have drawbacks however. You can't curl up by the fire with them and read about very large trees growing on alien planets and the goings on there, or poems about large squash in one's garden, or moonlite nights, or oddball characters who live in a town named after a swampy area or other flights of fancy. And if next year they come out with something even smaller and more amazing, these little things will become obsolete.... just like floppy drives have virtually disappeared from computers now.
I have a mountain of stuff stored on floppy drives. Sigh. But in the meantime, they still amaze. I can't help myself.
(Just how hard have you TRIED? That's what I want to know.....)
(That was your first mistake right there.)
I was in the market for a couple of these. . .
little.....
thingys....
[album 65561 Flash 001.jpg]
Now I am sure a whole bunch of you will know exactly what you are looking at. Others like myself, [until yesterday] might not have guessed.
These are flash drives. You stick one of these in a port in the computer and it is like a little mini hard drive. 2 gigs to be exact. The one with the heart on it has my entire novel, and a very large assortment of poetry and essays stored on it right now. The other one has all my photos from all my folders on my computer.
These things are about the size of a packet of Pez candies. Cost me 9.99. [on sale plus a mail in rebate... otherwise would be about 22 something, in the spirit of full disclosure.] And for some reason they just tickle my rather infintesimal techie bone to the max. They are so elegant, so small and can hold so much stuff!!!
Oh I am such a conflicted Luddite.
It's hard to live in my skin today.
But it is also hard not to marvel at such a strange way of keeping your creative endeavors in one place. I mean I remember Mr. Spock poking little plastic disks into the computer all those years ago thinking it was all so futuristic ... and acting so blase' about it... I'll bet even he would have gone all ga ga over one of these little numbers. Had he run across one in the local computer store.
They do have drawbacks however. You can't curl up by the fire with them and read about very large trees growing on alien planets and the goings on there, or poems about large squash in one's garden, or moonlite nights, or oddball characters who live in a town named after a swampy area or other flights of fancy. And if next year they come out with something even smaller and more amazing, these little things will become obsolete.... just like floppy drives have virtually disappeared from computers now.
I have a mountain of stuff stored on floppy drives. Sigh. But in the meantime, they still amaze. I can't help myself.
(Just how hard have you TRIED? That's what I want to know.....)