krpalmer | Catching up Cover-wise (Reply)

While I bounced back pretty fast from a somewhat severe bout of “feeling weary at scraping thoughts together into words to post here at least once a week” five years ago, the Tumblr I started in that moment of weakness has been stocked ever since with old computer magazine covers cadged from the Internet Archive and a few other sources. It’s also just so happened that a cover from February 1991 has emerged from my queue in February a mere thirty years later, although the real synchronicity will have to wait until March. Having gone from “almost forty-two years ago” to “exactly thirty years ago” in five years of real time but aware that some of the computer magazines I skim through didn’t last much longer into the 1990s, I do keep thinking “one day I’ll be moving that much faster.” At some point, too, I’ll run out of covers for the magazines for newer systems that kept publishing; that’s a danger with “single topics.”

An attempt to clean up Tumblr after I signed up for it seemed to have shot it in the foot, but it hasn’t bled out altogether yet. At the same time, I have to admit to thoughts one particular reason why I held back from signing up for Twitter was removed last month. There do remain other reasons I’m cautious about that service, though, including my tendency towards lengthy, overcomplicated sentences.