The stuff you miss

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The 620 section at my Elementary School Media Center. For those who don't follow the Dewey Decimal system, books in the 620 section cover Engineering. The books in this section were some of my favorites as they combined pictures of big machines and heavy equipment from the sixties and seventies with sci-fi/concept art by Chris Foss, Klaus Burgle, Frank Tinsley and other famous concept artists. I was always annoyed that I could only check out two books at a time becuase there were numerous volumes that I loved reading over and over again.

Before I go I should also state another fond memory of this section. Due to the fact that most kids aren't interested in monorails, bucket dredgers, blast furnaces and robots that aren't R2-D2 or C-3PO, the librarians would use available spots in the shelves to hide books that parents would get mad at. These books were imported European picture books that featured goofy fat bottomed MILFs doing things like going shopping naked, going to nude beaches and riding horses naked. Like the aforementioned Engineering books, the art for these books was also gorgeous. When I got older I'd find out that the art was inspired by the saucy postcards that the English Seaside town of Brighton is famous for.
 
Also sixth generation console gaming.

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I miss that time when you wren't old enough to really have regrets. Yeah there was stuff we whined about, but thats not the same. Once you get old enough to have legit life regrets, the rest of your life is under a sad filter you have to try your best to ignore/see past.
 
  • Hot Wheels Ferraris (Mattel lost the Ferrari license at the end of 2014)
  • Sega consoles
  • late evening walks to and from Blockbuster Video
  • my father and other assorted dead relatives and pets
  • watching 1980s and 1990s cartoons late at night on Teletoon Retro
  • when the green flavour in candies like Runts was lime and not apple. Lime is better than apple and a distinct flavour from lemon
  • Speaking of Runts, I know they still make them but I can never seem to find Runts in stores anymore.
  • Increasingly, compact digital cameras aside from the really low-end ones they sell in blister packs. Smartphones have absolutely decimated that segment of the camera market in recent years. I know "full frame" sensor DSLR and Mirrorless cameras take better photos, especially at resolutions higher than about 8 megapixels, but I still like having a dedicated camera small enough to slip into a pocket, with optical zoom and physical buttons, something you don't generally get on most smartphone cameras. I never could get used to touchscreen photography.
 
I miss Borders, and other good book stores (and used ones). I do not miss Barnes & Nobles, and other shitty book stores.

I'm going to miss cars without "infotainment" screens. I also miss the days when spell checker would have flagged that stupid word.
 
I miss ignorance.

I regret learning more and more about human interaction from the micro to macro scale and how that feeds into our existence but I can't stop at this point or I will lose my mind.
 
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