Tag: nostalgia
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Ye Olde Internet — I miss it
Strap in. This elder millennial is about to yell at some clouds. I’ve been feeling this for quite a while and pretty deeply in recent years — the idea that we’ve lost something magical about the “old” internet as we barrel towards a more AI corrupted dystopic enabled future. Who am I kidding? We’re already…
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How Often Do You Clear Out Your Spice Cupboard?
It’s Sunday morning and I’ve had a couple of cups of coffee and watched a few YouTube videos in the living room. I’ve cut back on the amount of wine I drink in the evenings and, consequently, the amount of snacking I do before bed at night. Naturally, I’m pretty hungry in the morning now,…
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Time in a Bubble
Does anyone really want to know what their parent’s thought of them when they were kids? Maybe not.
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Caribou’s Power Plant and Boring Childhood Car Rides
The site stands out in my mind as being almost iconic. I grew up in Van Buren, a small town near the Canadian border. We often traveled south to Caribou and Presque Isle to shop at Ames, Service Merchandise and the Aroostook Centre Mall — the mall was a bigger deal then — and maybe…
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The Back to the Future Effect
My family and I moved from Canada to Van Buren, Maine, in 1988. I pretty much grew up there. I lived there until I moved to Caribou (about 20 minutes south) in 2002, with the exception of some brief attempts at college after graduating high school in 1998. I’ve lived in Caribou ever since. The…
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deathgenerator.com
I used to play a lot of PC games when I was a kid. As a teenager I was really into “first person shooter” games. Some of my favorites included Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem (I, II, and 3D), Doom, and Shadow Warrior (I still listen to the soundtrack for background noise to this day). In…
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