The Modern Luddite
Every day I seem to discover that I am falling further and further behind. The thing is I wasn't always this way. I used to be the guy that was always on the cutting edge. People came to me for tech advice. Patrick, what should I buy? How do I fix this, what do I do about that? Somewhere along the wandering path our existence the modern world passed me by. It is difficult to put my finger on the exact moment but I suspect it occurred somewhere around the advent of cell phones. I was okay when they were simple bricks but as the networks and functions became more complex my mind started to let go. It is hard to understand why. I mean function has actually become more simple. I was the guy who sat with my DOS PC trying to reconfigure the RAM to allow me to play some game that had unique requirements. I confronted the scary DOS prompt and at times won and mostly failed. People still come to me from time to time to solve a computer issue but I usually try to feign ign