Today I booted up my Sony Vaio for the first time in a little while to hotsync my Palm Centro, and now I’m installing some updates on it. It’s running better than I thought it would. If I don’t open a browser, it functions quite normally, so to circumvent that need, I’ve been downloading software from my Macbook Air to a USB drive to transfer to my Vaio. I find I can get things done much faster that way.
From palmdb.net, I downloaded the desktop version of DataViz Documents to Go to sync my Palm documents to my computer. My intention is to write novels on my Centro as part of my larger project, which is to write novels on 2000s era electronic devices, some of which are not meant for novel-writing.
I have read four totally engrossing books on my Centro: In Love’s Hands; A Mad Love; Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle; and Edith Lyle. I am currently reading Ishmael; Or, In the Depths. I hope to complete many more of the “Twenty Books Every Woman Should Read” on my Centro, though some I will have to find in print.
On Friday I bought a beautiful pearl blue Game Boy Advance SP, and this weekend I bought The Sims 2 and American Idol to play. Using 2000s-era tech makes me feel closer to a time I want to return to and experience more slowly and thoughtfully. It was a time when I felt my inner world and the outer world to be as similar to one another as they probably ever will be, and so I always feel magnetized to materials from that time.
Electronic devices have a particular appeal to me similar to that of BJD’s. It’s a Velveteen Rabbit sense that I have toward both categories of objects; similar to the idea of loving them into life, I want them to experience all the use they should experience, to co-create with me, to have experiences with me. It’s an idea that may be similar to animism, but not all things have this spark of life for me: just BJD’s and electronics.
Sunlight-Colored Roses 