Ten Years of Tumbling

Feeling wearied ten years ago by the effort of coming up with posts here might not have afflicted me for all that long. Before that mood lifted, though, it did turn into the motivation to sign up for Tumblr and start posting “computer magazine covers” cadged from the Internet Archive and a few other sources. Not that long after I’d started, so it now seems, efforts to clean that service up injured it, and yet there are still other people posting there and operating on a lower key might make it feel a little less reprehensible than some other services.

To push towards the ten-year mark I did resort to posting covers from some computer magazines I hadn’t quite accumulated scanned copies of back when starting. I do feel as if I’m closer to the end than the beginning of that second pass through history. At this point, aware of the certain amount of time that goes into “skimming a magazine and putting together a capsule description to go with the cover” and how I keep feeling like I’m short on time after work these days, I’m contemplating whether I have enough content to just go on to reposting covers from “fifty years ago,” “forty-five years ago,” “forty years ago,” and so on; it might even amount to “a post every day of the month.”