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
No comments:
Post a Comment