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About Me
This is the mixed media blog of James Foreman. He writes things.
Favorite topics include art, history, modern life, pop culture, dating, sex, atheism, science, stories, whimsy, magic, writing and self-deprecation.
You can read a fiction story he wrote in the bestselling Machine of Death anthology, a true story he wrote in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or a funny thing he wrote for McSweeney's.
He's working on a novel. It's going okay.- Email Me
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Anonymous asked:Alternate Future: The year is 2015 and the internet is permanently out of commission (although the rest of the world is fine). How does this impact your life?
Thankfully, I am just old enough to remember life before the internet, so lacking it won’t affect me as much as people younger than me.
My high school library didn’t even have an electronic database - I can even use a card catalog! I spent most of my earliest writing life using a Selectric that was heavy enough to kill you if it fell on you, and when you plugged it in and turned it on it hummed and shook the whole table. And that thing was state of the art!
I can see a lot of negative aspects, though. It’s nice to have a link to the sum total of all electronically-inputted human knowledge in my hand at all times, so it would suck to lose it.
