Articles Tagged with old technology

A stone in the sidewalk (I)

Published on December 10, 2019December 8, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Round, grooved and underfoot

Why is this strange object in the Alexandria sidewalk?

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Working from a snapshot

Published on November 19, 2019November 18, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Patient astronomers

People are rather ill-designed for astronomy.

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Fixing old things

Published on November 5, 2019November 3, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Repairable still

When do you stop paying for repairs?

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Users and collectors

Published on July 9, 2019July 7, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The tribes sometimes cooperate

Why would you keep an example of old technology?  And how?

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Making a drawing (II)

Published on April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

When the details are important

Sometimes careful pencil-work is vital.

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Planned and unplanned

Published on March 19, 2019March 17, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Careful forethought vs. serendipity

Equivocal insights from photography.

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Why keep old things?

Published on November 6, 2018November 5, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Putting pen to paper (II)

Published on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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How big is the world?

Published on October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Measuring a cabbage-patch

“It’s a small world” is a cliché.  Can we measure how small?

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Putting pen to paper

Published on October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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