I think I really must be sooooooooo last century...*
Amongst other things, just taking a brief look at my home/life...
I shave using either a Gilette flare tip rocket my mum bought my dad the first christmas after they were married, using Palmolive shaving soap and a badger brush (Gilette 7 o'clock blades for extra closeness).
I listen to modern and classic vinyl on Linn Sondek LP12 through a 1972 Rotel amp, albeit with modern speakers.
I roast in aluminium but fry in cast iron, use Pyrex over Teflon and mince my own cuts of meat using a hand-crank that my maternal granny got as a wedding present.
The clock in the living room gets wound once a week, as does the RAF fob-watch grandpa left me in his will.
I grind my own spices using a pestle and mortar, bake sourdough bread three or four times a week and grow a lot of our veg.
Often my work involves welding lead, shaping stone or joinering wood.
Sometimes I ride a 1965 KMZ K750 combination but generally I drive a 12yo VW Transporter.
I love using all that low tech kit, I really do.
However...
I also love watching DVDs and satellite on a 37inch Sony Bravia tv, surfing t'interweb on a fairly new Powerbook, using a microwave oven to heat/defrost stuff, riding a 2009 Yamaha R1, listening to The Archers on a digital radio, heating our home with underfloor heating via a high efficiency condensing boiler etc..
The way I see it there's a lot to be said for old tech, but there's no point ignoring progress.
* such an old fart.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 7 Nov 2010, 11:02, 8 replies)

I think it's the references to DVDs and Microwaves as 'new technology' that make you sound old tech (in a good way).
(johnson, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 11:39, closed)

I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
The thing is that's how I view that tech, even though the microwave oven must have been around for 40 or more years...

edit: 1946!!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 7 Nov 2010, 11:43, closed)

Yay - the Archers
I thought I must be the only member in the Venn diagram of Archers listeners / b3ta users. Glad to hear there are two of us... and counting
(willydoc, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 8:24, closed)

Now that's a groovy Venn diagram if ever I heard of one!
Maybe we should start a club...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 8 Nov 2010, 10:38, closed)

Great plan! Perhaps we could bribe the scriptwriters to sneak in a b3ta reference or two to raise the profile

BTW did you make sourdough starter for your bread? I've tried but keep on getting jars of mouldy yuck.
(willydoc, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 6:52, closed)

or we could just start OT threads about the archers? LOL
yeah, started the sourdough culture myself, from some wholemeal rye flour i brought back from Poland last year. It can be a bit tricky!
I shall gaz you my secretest secrets when i get home this evening if you like?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 9 Nov 2010, 10:33, closed)

Underfloor heating has been around since Roman times at least so that's hardly new tech, although admittedly I don't think they had quite perfected the condensing boiler :P
(Banjax, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 12:05, closed)

yeah, the hypocaust?
hot air rather than fairly warm water in a sealed system.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:28, closed)