Comments on: Tools of the Trade http://pith.org/notes/2006/07/04/tools-of-the-trade/ words for sale. cheap. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:06:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: djd http://pith.org/notes/2006/07/04/tools-of-the-trade/comment-page-1/#comment-4 djd Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:59:38 +0000 http://pith.org/notes/2006/07/04/tools-of-the-trade/#comment-4 I respect tools. Someday, I tell myself, I will buy a fixer-upper (probably the only kind of house I could afford in Somerville) and then I will finally have to learn how to fix things. I recently wrote an article about a local building materials co-op that offers classes... hmm. My best friend's dad collects portable typewriters. He will give me one, the friend says. I wonder if I would use it or just leave it out as quietly tragic sculpture? When someone stole his tools, musician/sculptor/contractor Boy Thayer wrote a song about it. I respect tools. Someday, I tell myself, I will buy a fixer-upper (probably the only kind of house I could afford in Somerville) and then I will finally have to learn how to fix things. I recently wrote an article about a local building materials co-op that offers classes… hmm.

My best friend’s dad collects portable typewriters. He will give me one, the friend says. I wonder if I would use it or just leave it out as quietly tragic sculpture?

When someone stole his tools, musician/sculptor/contractor Boy Thayer wrote a song about it.

]]> By: Other_Sally http://pith.org/notes/2006/07/04/tools-of-the-trade/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Other_Sally Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:45:49 +0000 http://pith.org/notes/2006/07/04/tools-of-the-trade/#comment-3 It's not so bad. I'd say your camera functions as a tool of the trade, and is both hands-on enough and personal enough to be potentially considered an heirloom in later years. I actually think that some laptops will take on the status of typewriters as newer technology comes to replace them. I can definitely see our modern cellphones considered "quaint" and "charming" antiques by following generations. Yep, there will come a time when you will sit, old and gray (or rather, botoxed and colored) with your grandchildren, fondly showing them your salvaged phone and reminsicing about the times when computers had some *weight* to them, and you forged a bond with your laptop as you held it on your hands, rested it on your lap, took it into a coffeeshop. "People related to the technology they used then!" you will cough. They will roll their eyes and say, "I can't believe your computers used to be so big you had to lug them around in a case. These new hyperskin-installed modules are so much easier to use." And you, being a crotchety grandpa, will hit your grandson on the ear, causing his internal music drive to go into hiccups and spew out snippets of songs at random. It’s not so bad. I’d say your camera functions as a tool of the trade, and is both hands-on enough and personal enough to be potentially considered an heirloom in later years. I actually think that some laptops will take on the status of typewriters as newer technology comes to replace them. I can definitely see our modern cellphones considered “quaint” and “charming” antiques by following generations.

Yep, there will come a time when you will sit, old and gray (or rather, botoxed and colored) with your grandchildren, fondly showing them your salvaged phone and reminsicing about the times when computers had some *weight* to them, and you forged a bond with your laptop as you held it on your hands, rested it on your lap, took it into a coffeeshop. “People related to the technology they used then!” you will cough.

They will roll their eyes and say, “I can’t believe your computers used to be so big you had to lug them around in a case. These new hyperskin-installed modules are so much easier to use.”

And you, being a crotchety grandpa, will hit your grandson on the ear, causing his internal music drive to go into hiccups and spew out snippets of songs at random.

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