Analogue Items

my grandma with a rubiks cube in the 70s

i've been thinking a lot about my grandma recently.

these are mine. i got the speed one because i wanted to get sub-90s solve times, and by golly i did that one time.

she lived her life never really having used a smartphone. or the internet. or a computer.

my grandma unwittingly watching something on her phone.

it's not like we never tried. i just don't think she was that bothered.

this is a little ball i bought so that i can walk around kicking a ball and feel like i'm getting exercise in the house

sometimes we'd watch tv together. like the world cup.

remember when fidget spinners were going to bring the downfall of our modern society? thank fuck we nipped that one in the bud.

did she feel alone, watching while the rest of us were fidgeting away on our phones?

these are all my notebooks. i've tried all sorts of fancy ones.

she used to keep a diary with all of our birthdays written in barely legible gujarati.

but recently i've been getting some pretty good mileage out of a pukka pad and parker pen.

did she know that she could just wait for someone to post in the family whatsapp group?

my grandma, aged 80-something, grinding in the garden with a rake whilst i sat back and took a photo for the socials

once i got drunk and donated a pokéball to a charity in new york and hilarie burton sent me seeds.

my grandma helped me plant them.

this is the actual hilarie burton flower. isn't she a beaut. the flower is cool too.

would they have bloomed if i just asked gemini how to do it?

spiderman jigsaw puzzle. i usually do jigsaws in january, it seems apt.

it used to puzzle me. the notion of not keeping up with the advances of technology. it would never happen to me.

the mini sudoku and crossword books i now use (in theory) instead of doomscrolling

but actually now it sounds pretty swell.

candle. i never thought i'd be a candle person, but home ownership changes you in weird and wonderful ways.

her life always seemed simple. calm. serene.

i bought these yoyos thinking i'd be cool and learn a bunch of tricks and stuff. now they are all in knots.

less prone to the ups and downs of the modern world.

my slinky! in an arch.

i bought a slinky the other day. it's a fun way to pass time.

it's a bit wonky now.

party bubbles - the vape of the future

big fan of blowing things too.

bamboo flutes - also known as bansurii in my culture

when i first started blowing in these non-deterministic generative noise sticks it sounded like crap.

it was a skills issue. i was blowing wrong.

i bought this label maker last week and now have labels on everything, just in case i ever forget.

so i dunno, maybe it's okay to be "left behind".

a laggard.

a luddite.

a tally counter that i have used to count <redacted>

because there's more to life than ones and zeroes.