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+id: 2026-04-11T23:50:56-04:00
+aliases: []
+title: 2026-04-11 23:50:56
+tags:
+  - authorship/original
+  - destiny/permanent
+  - status/draft
+  - type/periodic/timestamped
+dg-publish: true
+date-created: 2026-04-11T23:50:56-04:00
+daily: "[[2026-04-11]]"
+weekly: "[[2026-W15]]"
+monthly: "[[2026-04]]"
+quarterly: "[[2026-Q2]]"
+yearly: "[[2026]]"
+---
+# 2026-04-11 23:50:56
+
+## already two from today
+
+![300](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81L00i9fdmL.jpg)
+
+While antiquing with my mom [[2026-04-03]]
+I found a flip open A-Z address directory.
+I had never seen one before
+and using it made me genuinely excited.
+I was considering how I might use it
+when I remembered that it
+(like dozens of other clever devices, I'm sure)
+had been made obsolete by the cell phone
+which has been ubiquitous as long as I've been alive.
+
+I thought about my typewriter.
+I asked my mom if,
+when she was my age,
+she was ever intrigued the same way,
+by dead tech.
+She said she wasn't,
+that she was always happy for the replacement.
+
+It's not exactly fair, I guess.
+I've got my pick of hundreds
+killed by the PC alone.
+She was just older than me now,
+had used them all she cared to,
+was happy to see them go.
+
+I'm typing this on a new laptop
+remembering my first.
+It was mostly the same.
+Just a decade after the Rolodex was killed,
+but already two from today.
+
+In another another three
+my kid will say the same.
+Just a decade after the Rolodex was killed,
+but already five from today.
+
+Chips get faster,
+apps get slower.
+Nothing changes,
+but I think it used to be fun.