Low-Tech to the Rescue
Yes, this is my PDA with a yellow sticky on it.
Chris came to my office after church yesterday, wanting to set a date to meet for coffee. I grabbed my fancy IPAQ PDA, only to discover that I had forgotten to charge the battery. I scribbled the time and place of the meeting on a yellow sticky note to remind me to enter it after the battery was charged.
I did not catch the irony until I saw Chris laughing so hard she couldn't speak. I followed the finger she was pointing to my IPAQ and got the joke.
How about this? 3M's original PA bails out my PDA. Low-Tech to the rescue.
This happens all the time in our world. Simple tools come to the rescue when the fancy gadgets fail. Simple things do have the advantage of being harder to break. Digital photos, for example, have their limitations. Grandma's old picture might be faded and have a crease in it, but it won't - I need a new verb here - "deexist" itself if someone walks by with a magnet. Hell, even if it burns, at least you have a pile of ashes to cry over.
I'm all for the gadgets, don't get me wrong. I love em. I just don't turn my back on the old stuff either. Know what I mean?
Funny. Now that I think of it, it might be that same impulse that keeps me nosing around in the bible, looking for something this modern world cannot give me.
rlp
9:09:10 AM 
|
