Good Things, Almost Forgotten and More

Good Things, Almost Forgotten and More

Good Things, Almost Forgotten 

• Phones that didn't get constant, buggy software updates and didn't need to be rebooted, ever
• Highways that aren't under constant reconstruction
• Buttons and knobs for controlling cars and electronics
• IBM/Lexmark buckle spring keyboards
• The Beverly Hillbillies - now on MeTV every weekday
• Butter Rum Lifesavers - still available but not on my diet
• Altoids sugar free cinnamon chewing gum
• Dentyne Pure sugar free chewing gum

Great Novelists Gone

• Terry Pratchett - don't miss anything - early, Discworld, and more
• Isaac Asimov
• Michael Crichton
• Kurt Vonnegut
• David Gemmell - maybe not great but fun (MNGBF)
• David Eddings - MNGBF - ignore anything after The Belgariad/Malloreon series

Great Novelists, No Longer - Over ten years to write a sequel?

• George RR Martin
  
• Patrick Rothfuss - meanwhile publish the most boring book of all time

Great Novelists, No Longer - After reading many of the books by these authors, I couldn't get through the Kindle free sample of their latest.

• Christopher Moore - Noir
• Orson Scott Card - The Hive
• Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace

Great Novelists, Where Are You?

• Margaret Atwood
• Michael Sullivan - MNGBF

Old Songs From People That I Otherwise Rarely Listen To

• American Girl - Tom Petty
• Authority Song - John Mellencamp
• I Was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder
• Little Bit of Soul - The Music Explosion
• Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
• Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann
• Standing in the Shadows of Love - The Four Tops

Some Things Have Gotten Better

• Dishwashers with pod detergents
• Unscented and dye free liquid clothes washer detergent
• Memory foam mattresses
• Crosscut paper shredders
• Carbon fiber and titanium for mechanical things
• Computer and TV displays: CRT -> flat screen CRT -> LCD -> OLED
• Cordless (battery powered) vacuum cleaners and power tools

Best Forgotten

• Checking account balance books - all my stuff is in a spreadsheet now
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs, and soon, hopefully, all fluorescent lights
• Paperback books - impossible to read while using your hands for other things
• Full size American sedans, with minimal shock absorbers
• Fins and wings on street cars
• Typewriters
• "Rechargeable" Nickel Cadmium batteries

And a Few Things That Should Disappear

• Air blower hand dryers
• Automobile sunroofs, mandatory with other options that are important
• Scented detergents and air fresheners
• Internal combustion engine powered lawn mowers, string trimmers, and leaf blowers