Technology and Father's Day
Dear Old Man, Our new RV has a top-of -the-line satellite system (circa 2005). It's useless and giant. In 2005 it was 30k. It did poorly what a new phone does well. Why the fuck do you care? Because you never had a phone or a satellite receiver and you traveled widely. And it makes me think of how useless and futile the global communication network is... truly what an unprecedented global ejaculation of trash. And I think you told me this was happening back in 1995. We didn't have a VCR, we were some of the last people on the planet who rented a VCR. This seemed absurd to me as a kid. A VCR seemed absurd to you as a middle aged man. It could be time and tide, but I get it. If we had the VCR you couldn't have escaped twice a week down town to smoke cigarettes outside a bar, Heineken in hand and see a movie in person. Instead you'd be bound to your bed, staring at the screen like a mental hospital inmate. I reme...