You are not alone. I find a rare pleasure in doing the dishes. As you say, it's a moment of meditation. It also helps that our kitchen has a view to the wilderness.

The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/

Yes, but they are grouped under one single tab, so for me at least is more easy to alt-tab to other app and return to the split view.

I don't think that the larry games where to be released to the whole world.

Life is sweet, when you life in the cultural nexus that is a English speaking country and do not have to pay the translation tax.

I live in south america.

Call it notemac++, tell that its a fork of notepad++.

I just returned from my mom's house. Visited her with my 4yo daughter. The house is full with old magazines and books, it's a time machine to my youth (and that of my parents). The magazines are full of drawings, annotations, etc, by me and my brothers... My daughter could connect with all that easily, we read together the same phisical comic book, she can see how her father and uncles draw on it just like her... Good luck having that on digital.

On the other hand, I have paperback books I loved as a kid that were my father's when he was a kid. I carefully saved them for decades. One more generation and they could be considered family relics or something. I quickly realized the flaw with this plan as I tried to share them with my kids, who cannot be expected to treat brittle middle-grade and young-adult novels as museum pieces.

I am not entirely ready to part with the books, but I'm also unable to bear watching them get thoughtlessly destroyed by my kids. Digital has made it very easy to get copies of all of them; plus others I didn't manage to hold on to.

Asimov had a short story, "The Jokester" in which there are certain people called "grand masters" who have the ability to formulate the questions to ask to Multivac... An early "prompt engineer" of sort.

Shadow of the Colossus and Ico.

I've played a bit of Shadow of the Colossus (got through the first colossus fight). I enjoyed it, I just haven't picked it up since I got it haha

Exactly. Thats it what i most miss, the sense of wonderful misteries and possibilities that the computer had.

> Well, today we’re introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The first one: a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second: a revolutionary mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device.

Every time that i watch that keynote i think that Jobs should have started that list with the internet communication device thing, then the touch ipod and mobile phone last. The audicience responded to the internet device with a "meh" after the mobile phone announcement.

It was a different time. Less nerdy people already had phones and iPods. And were already keen for better versions of those things. The Internet communicator part was more abstract, it wasn’t clear to a non-technical person why they would even want such a thing. The iphone showed them why by first putting a better phone and iPod in their hands…