Are you as high tech as I am? / myLot

Walnut Creek, California

March 1, 2016 12:04pm CST

Of course, I ask that facetiously. I don't even text, and I do all of my computing at home. Even in my speaker refinishing, I just use whatever is around the house. I guess you could say I live my life with "low overhead costs." Here's a picture of how I press new veneer into a corner of a receiver cabinet I'm restoring (a Fisher 500C, worth about $800). I just glue it in and then press it with a half-full Shellac can. Are you high tech? Or low tech? Do you have ways that use use "whatever is around the house" for important projects?

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PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21845)

• Canada

1 Mar 16

I am low tech, I do what you do and make do....

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

I think it's kind of fun figuring out uses for things. I could be more high-tech. Just never had the desire to be.

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Silvermist

@silvermist (19701)

• India

1 Mar 16

@TheHorse No I am not high tech.I am very very low tech.I do not remember using whatever is around the house for important projects.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

Do you do most of your computing on a regular old desktop, like I do? Heh. I don't even own a microwave. Never have.

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Silvermist

@silvermist (19701)

• India

2 Mar 16

@TheHorse I use a Desktop.I do have a cell phone.But I do not text much.,but use it to make and receive calls.

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

1 Mar 16

sometimes I will text especially in the evening hours, I will sometimes use things around the house if I have a project and I can use something that is just laying around not being used.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

I'm going to invent a device where you can press a few numbers and actually speak to someone. Then texting won't be necessary. What?... Bell?...Telephone? Never mind.

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Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

1 Mar 16

low tech I do not text do not even have a cell phone probably the only one in the USA who does not but Imnot well to do lol. I have onlyh a desk topcomputer b ut thats okay and now I have entered the sneeze aroo part of my allergic attack but not headache so Im good to mylot not that its going to get that 1 7 had to go with 16 and some 60 sents instead b ut thats okaywow yor resrng is so great will look fantastic too.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

I have only an el cheapo cell phone that I rarely use.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

2 Mar 16

i'm with ya, hon. i do with what i've got best's i can. don't text 'n all that other schtuff. heck, i'd go completely underground if'n the health allowed such jest to get 'way from all that.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

2 Mar 16

@TheHorse i agree :D i'd miss the friends i've made'n the net, not so much the net itself (though 'tis handy fer readin' research). i'd much rather be 'out there' 'n unplugged from it all.

The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Mar 16

I'd miss the internet if I didn't have it. But I don't need to take it with me everywhere. There's people and nature and stuff out there.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Mar 16

We are definitely low-tech. We're always using scraps or 'making do'. Paints and lacquers make great weights.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Mar 16

They really do. And now and then I actually use the paint or lacquer.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Mar 16

@TheHorse We have nice little off-cuts of ply and pine which are our notebooks. When we need to write down some measurements we grab one of these.

Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

1 Mar 16

I see that you are applying the newly discovered idea of gravity. Since you are taking advantage of the rotational power and mass of the planet I would hardly call that low tech.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

1 Mar 16

@TheHorse Applying the same approach as one the world's greatest Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers is far from low tech.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

Hmm. I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm actually being something of a physicist, aren't I?

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Peter B. Giblett

@pgiblett (6524)

• Canada

1 Mar 16

When it comes to computers and software I am as high-tech as they come, but for practical fixes, like that, I use whatever comes to hand.

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Peter B. Giblett

@pgiblett (6524)

• Canada

2 Mar 16

@TheHorse tthe only worry with that can of paint is it falling off.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

I enjoy finding unusual uses for things.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (148701)

• Roseburg, Oregon

1 Mar 16

We have a smart phone that we are still figuring out how to use it.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

Heh heh. Good luck!

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Pat Z Anthony

@PatZAnthony (14749)

• Charlotte, North Carolina

2 Mar 16

Using things around the house for projects just makes good sense to me!

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Mar 16

Why buy something new when something you already have will do!?

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Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111937)

• United States

1 Mar 16

I am not sure what i am.Let me see.Not high or low.But I do like the feeling of high.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Mar 16

Hmm. That doesn't sounds very technical.

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Marsha

@MarshaMusselman (38865)

• Midland, Michigan

2 Mar 16

I might be a bit higher tech than you, but I don't have a lot of extra money to buy whatever is needed, so maybe a bit of both.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Mar 16

I could buy all the modern stuff. I just have no desire to. Maybe it has to do with how much better older stereo gear is than the modern stuff.

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Baconstripsxxx

@BACONSTRIPSXXX (18025)

• Torrington, Connecticut

1 Mar 16

I consider myself high tec, Im all about the latest gadjets. I have the Samsung Galaxy S6 as my personal phone, iPhone 6 work phone, ipad air for work and my macbook pro for home uses lol

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The Horse

@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

1 Mar 16

Do they come with a screwdriver and fingernail trimmers?

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