Thread: The Times they are a chaning

Originally Posted by Marshal

Ya know, I spent most of yesterday evening looking into how to build a log cabin. I'd love nothing more than to buy a small plot of land on the edge of civilization, throw down a little cabin, and live the way our forbearers did. Not that my wild ideas ever bear much fruit, but a fella can dream.

A great idea, but be careful though.
Nowadays that's how you end up with a T.V. show.

Pete <:-}

Originally Posted by Marshal

Ya know, I spent most of yesterday evening looking into how to build a log cabin. I'd love nothing more than to buy a small plot of land on the edge of civilization, throw down a little cabin, and live the way our forbearers did. Not that my wild ideas ever bear much fruit, but a fella can dream.

I really don't know if most folks will know where i came from or not but here goes. I was born in an old shack in the middle of a cotton field at the edge of the Forked Deer river bottom in Tn. No electric plumbing or running water. we had a well. My dad was a share cropper. we grew a garden and raised hogs and chickens. the cattle was for sale. to high to eat. I remember "those good old days" . Now there's a lot of those days i would defiantly like to live over and there's some i don't. It was a simpler time and for the most part a happy time. With all the modern convinces we have I don't know if we as people are better off or not. I think that when it's all said and done. When they lay you down in the arms of mother earth all that really mattered was for the most part did you enjoy life and did you leave others with good memories of you . again for the most part.
These days my wife and I own our home. we are retired and enjoy our hobbies and most of all our family and friends. I will say this to all the young folks out there enjoy life It goes by way too quick.

Oh and the wife just gave me permission to go to sturgis this year. Yea

Originally Posted by rhensley

I really don't know if most folks will know where i came from or not but here goes. I was born in an old shack in the middle of a cotton field at the edge of the Forked Deer river bottom in Tn. No electric plumbing or running water. we had a well. My dad was a share cropper. we grew a garden and raised hogs and chickens. the cattle was for sale. to high to eat. I remember "those good old days" . Now there's a lot of those days i would defiantly like to live over and there's some i don't. It was a simpler time and for the most part a happy time. With all the modern convinces we have I don't know if we as people are better off or not. I think that when it's all said and done. When they lay you down in the arms of mother earth all that really mattered was for the most part did you enjoy life and did you leave others with good memories of you . again for the most part.
These days my wife and I own our home. we are retired and enjoy our hobbies and most of all our family and friends. I will say this to all the young folks out there enjoy life It goes by way too quick.

Oh and the wife just gave me permission to go to sturgis this year. Yea

Great story, Hensley, and this quote is straight truth that I hope never changes with any amount of technology: I think that when it's all said and done. When they lay you down in the arms of mother earth all that really mattered was for the most part did you enjoy life and did you leave others with good memories of you .

Originally Posted by petercp4e

A great idea, but be careful though.
Nowadays that's how you end up with a T.V. show.

Pete <:-}

Hahaha! Well, pitching that to some reality TV execs is probably about the only way I'd get a chance to 'live the dream.' Either that or making a move to Alaska, and that's pretty low on my list of places I'd enjoy living. Way too cold up that a way for my liking. You reckon a 'Go fund me' type thing would get any traction?

In 1996 my boss, tattooing since 1968, went to a tattoo convention. Not like now where there are so many. At that time there were only a couple of serious big conventions per year. I mean where all the 'big guys' from all over the country, and the world show up.

Some of his contemporaries asked him for an email address. He said he didn't remember offhand, but he would get it to them when he got home. Well ...... he bought a computer, Windows 95. His rational was we could use it at the shop. The guys that couldn't draw could use it for artwork.

Well I was mad as a hatter. I was one that could draw, and had a leg up on those who couldn't. So once it was online at the shop the guys who knew how to use it surfed the web, played what games were available.

I was 47 then, scared of that thing. It would suddenly have a pop up that would say, "This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down!" Scared me silly. I finally learned to use it, got my own at home, and entered the world of cyberspace.

I was 62 or 63 when i got my very first cell phone, and it was a smart phone. A droid razr. I liked the look of it, and with a name like that ...... I took to it like a duck to water because of my computer experience. Three months later I did something I never thought I would, got rid of my land line.

I could go on .... and on, about my 'adventures' with smart phones. I'm on my third Moto Z Force replacement since September. Updating right now, having received it today. Anyway, Alvin Toffler wrote a book called Future Shock back in 1970. IIRC he said that as technology developed there was going to be so much information coming at finite man, that we wouldn't be able to handle the stress of it all.

So much has changed in my 68 years, no telling where it is going to go from here. Still stropping those razors and whipping that soap up with a shaving brush though.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

-snip-So much has changed in my 68 years, no telling where it is going to go from here. Still stropping those razors and whipping that soap up with a shaving brush though.

I love these memories being shared....as they drag us kicking and screaming into the 21st century, har!
I do miss the days of mechanical cash registers and never hearing the clerk say "sorry, the computers are down..."

Like you Scott I have friends all over the world and have for 16 years or more. What I have learned is it's not the people, it's their governments. And yeah the people to a degree but think about they are that way. Pitted against one another because 1 country was at war with another sometime in history. 1 country blamed for stealing jobs from another. These are all things governments do to the world at the behest of corporate money. I think if the people of the world could run things it would be a better place. And if you watch carefully you may notice that happening to a certain degree.

Originally Posted by ScottGoodman

Technology has truly effected our lives, but we can't leave our house unlocked, keys in the ignition, guns in gun racks, kids carry pocket knives to school, or even say the Pledge of Allegiance. I have to worry about someone from another country robbing my bank without even leaving their own couch...who would have thunk it!

Best part about all if it IMO is our ability to communicate. I have made acquaintances around the world...that's cool. I don't think I like where the world & society has gone & appears to be going personally though. Too much hate, anger, and loathing...

I read these posts and wonder what it's like to like in a world like that. They still keep promising us electricity but we still don't have it yet and I gave up on the telephone. heck we didn't get the telegraph until 1970. I guess it don't matter there ain't no TV stations anyway and the only radio you get is if you have a shortwave setup.

But that's OK between our little hamlet and the local Apaches we do just fine. You can keep yer fast food nothing like some elk stew or some bear casserole or possum fricassee.

It's just getting tiresome having to hitch up the buckboard and old lightning and going 30 miles to the library to use their computer to get on this site.

I learn more each day about this Iphone. I now have the weather Fox news eBay a couple of games and will put SRP on it. This may have been a good thing.

I'm always amazed how pervasive technology is.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so during the emergence of the internet, cell phones and a lot of media technologies.

We had a discussion recently with my step daughter about the internet. She was amazed that at one time we had internet so slow that there was not even a dream of streaming music or video. Internet on a mobile phone wasn't even a pipe dream and we had 4 tv channels.

It's amazing to think that our kids will never envision a time like that, or that if they can they will consider it almost prehistoric 😂

Also amazing is the speed of development. I own a smartwatch now. And there is more computing power in that watch than there was in my first full fledged pc, and my phone is considerably more capable. Jeez my tv has more computing power than that.

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