Just Shoot It !

During a sleep deprived night I stumbled across a picture of a cassette tape and an old cell phone both sitting on a bench and talking to one another. What did you say? No I’m not taking any drugs. Well… actually yes I am, but they’re doctor approved. The cell phone was ancient at least 3 years old, and we know that cassettes are the prehistoric offspring of records. I think the phone might have been a Razor. No… not the one you shave with, the one you talk with. Now the cassette was saying “Back in the Day I was…” This seemed to be a sensible statement from a cassette, because nowadays they just come unraveled as form of self expression. Of course that is a problem with many of the aging when not receiving proper internal care. They seem to get all backed up and then release it all at once. You know what I mean.

Are ya’ll still stuck on the talking tape, or is me taking medication? Shoot, I have a phone that can talk, remind me what to do, can unlock my car and much more. So a talking tape is child’s play. I also remember one time when the walls where breathing… I was on doctor subscribed drugs then too, but I’m sure the talking tape was not drug induced. This conversation is starting to make me feel a little like Alice. One pill makes you smaller… those were Strange Days, a great movie but not applicable to the conversation.

Now where were we… the aging of technology? Old technology is truly mistreated. When it is bought every one brags about the new great item they have received and within a few short years you can’t give it away. Worse yet like most people it just cannot adapt to the quickly changing protocols that are needed for proper modern day functioning. Yes for a while you can boost it up and do a few up dates. But in the end it becomes as useful as a rock never functioning the way it did when it was younger, only to await the inevitable solution of abandonment for a quicker, sleeker, and better performing model. So next time you notice an old worn out paper weight remember that you use to treat it like it was magnificent and now it is waiting broken hearted for you to return. Since that is not going happen just shoot it and put it out of its misery. It is the kind thing to do.

(C)Jonathan S. Brooks 04-0-11