I very much enjoyed your post! It gave me many reminiscence about my own journey with computers.
I too have killed a computer with wine. All my computers have been purchased second hand. The one I am using now is a 2021 Macbook Pro, it has an ISO keyboard layout and as an American I struggle with that. It was about $100 cheaper b/c of this so my thriftiness won out and I also use an external keyboard most of the time.
As a web designer I have always been very attached to my computers. I also name my cars and our robot vacuum (Subi Bubi and Mr. Sucker Bottom). I think it is human nature to anthropomorphize objects, especially in an increasingly technological world.
Thank you, Tori. I really appreciate reading this. It's quite inspiring that you purchase your computers second hand as a web designer, as someone who needs quite a bit of that technology I guess. Cheers to our wine drowned ones. Computers getting drunk, alcohol getting a sip of technology, the spirit's share perhaps. I like that we, humans make all kinds of these messy connections possible.
Oh i was so happy to read you. It has been a long time since you left instagram and it resonateda lot.. And I am so happy to know that La Graine will have a sibling. I really do look forward to read it.
So I only had/have two computers. My first one was heavy and I had it when I entered university. We were together 7 years and a half. It is still working but very slow. I still have it and plan for him to maybe put it on Linux. I changed twice the hard drive on it.
My second one, was given to me by the university were I did my PhD. Now he is still working 12 years later. I had to change the hard drive once. I still hope to stay with him a little. I mean I wrote my PhD on it. I truly love to tend to him. I feel like he is a old friend of mine.
Merci beaucoup, Sara. It has been a while, indeed, I almost forgot about it. Sibling La Graine is looking forward to meeting you also.
Seven years and a half, and twelve plus years! That's amazing. Writing a phd is quite the labour, you must have shared quite a bit along the way; I relate. It almost feels like they are our writing charms or amulets of sorts, i may feel like writing a bit of the third book with my elderly lap also. Who knows?
Thank you Gizem for this beautiful letter. I remember my first laptop. It’s was a gift from my parents for my entry into university. It was very huge for me back then because my parents were very strict about technology. We had one « family » computer in the living room that we could use for school or for a few messages on MSN. This first laptop was so important for me because it was my door to the world. I rememberd me, sitting in my little student room exploring internet with anybody watching me. I was free to explore by my one, clicking a link to an other, reading, watching, learning. If I had to give it a name, I would call it Freedom. It was in 2012 so my laptop is 14 years now and it’s still working ! I’m very lucky because my partner is a computer enthusiast and he put me a new SSD and and more me RAM so the laptop can live longer. Unfortunety, I think Apple doesn’t like this idea of repairing rather than buying, I can’t install the last versions of IOS so there is a lot of features that I can’t use. Thank you Gizem for reminding us to cherish all the objects that accompany us in our life. I can’t wait to meet the new sibbling of La Graine. Congratulations for passing this difficult moment of writing and sending the last draft ! I hope that your mind and body will find a good rest. I wish you a beautiful Blue Moon in advance. May it illuminate this new seed that has taken root and is emerging from the earth. Judith
Dear Judith, I loved reading your whisper so much. Thank you for bringing me to the first moments I surfed on internet... I relate with what you experienced tremendously that window, that door opening to the world, the freedom of wandering and wondering online. And what a revolutionary thing it was back then. We are probably the last generations who got to live their adolescense without internet and connect with this fascination of its arrival.
Sending my regards to your parents, I find their family computer attitude quite inspiring now that i am older:)
Fourteen years old and still rocking it 🫀 apple indeed doesnt want us to repair, if only they did, a different world we would live in then. You have inspired me, perhaps i will take mine to a take to see if we can lenghten its life a bit more.
The sibling book is looking forward to meeting you also. I really cannot wait but time goes fast... And an enchanted, expansive, inspiring blue moon to you too. Thank you again.
I very much enjoyed your post! It gave me many reminiscence about my own journey with computers.
I too have killed a computer with wine. All my computers have been purchased second hand. The one I am using now is a 2021 Macbook Pro, it has an ISO keyboard layout and as an American I struggle with that. It was about $100 cheaper b/c of this so my thriftiness won out and I also use an external keyboard most of the time.
As a web designer I have always been very attached to my computers. I also name my cars and our robot vacuum (Subi Bubi and Mr. Sucker Bottom). I think it is human nature to anthropomorphize objects, especially in an increasingly technological world.
Thank you, Tori. I really appreciate reading this. It's quite inspiring that you purchase your computers second hand as a web designer, as someone who needs quite a bit of that technology I guess. Cheers to our wine drowned ones. Computers getting drunk, alcohol getting a sip of technology, the spirit's share perhaps. I like that we, humans make all kinds of these messy connections possible.
Oh i was so happy to read you. It has been a long time since you left instagram and it resonateda lot.. And I am so happy to know that La Graine will have a sibling. I really do look forward to read it.
So I only had/have two computers. My first one was heavy and I had it when I entered university. We were together 7 years and a half. It is still working but very slow. I still have it and plan for him to maybe put it on Linux. I changed twice the hard drive on it.
My second one, was given to me by the university were I did my PhD. Now he is still working 12 years later. I had to change the hard drive once. I still hope to stay with him a little. I mean I wrote my PhD on it. I truly love to tend to him. I feel like he is a old friend of mine.
Merci beaucoup, Sara. It has been a while, indeed, I almost forgot about it. Sibling La Graine is looking forward to meeting you also.
Seven years and a half, and twelve plus years! That's amazing. Writing a phd is quite the labour, you must have shared quite a bit along the way; I relate. It almost feels like they are our writing charms or amulets of sorts, i may feel like writing a bit of the third book with my elderly lap also. Who knows?
Thank you Gizem for this beautiful letter. I remember my first laptop. It’s was a gift from my parents for my entry into university. It was very huge for me back then because my parents were very strict about technology. We had one « family » computer in the living room that we could use for school or for a few messages on MSN. This first laptop was so important for me because it was my door to the world. I rememberd me, sitting in my little student room exploring internet with anybody watching me. I was free to explore by my one, clicking a link to an other, reading, watching, learning. If I had to give it a name, I would call it Freedom. It was in 2012 so my laptop is 14 years now and it’s still working ! I’m very lucky because my partner is a computer enthusiast and he put me a new SSD and and more me RAM so the laptop can live longer. Unfortunety, I think Apple doesn’t like this idea of repairing rather than buying, I can’t install the last versions of IOS so there is a lot of features that I can’t use. Thank you Gizem for reminding us to cherish all the objects that accompany us in our life. I can’t wait to meet the new sibbling of La Graine. Congratulations for passing this difficult moment of writing and sending the last draft ! I hope that your mind and body will find a good rest. I wish you a beautiful Blue Moon in advance. May it illuminate this new seed that has taken root and is emerging from the earth. Judith
Dear Judith, I loved reading your whisper so much. Thank you for bringing me to the first moments I surfed on internet... I relate with what you experienced tremendously that window, that door opening to the world, the freedom of wandering and wondering online. And what a revolutionary thing it was back then. We are probably the last generations who got to live their adolescense without internet and connect with this fascination of its arrival.
Sending my regards to your parents, I find their family computer attitude quite inspiring now that i am older:)
Fourteen years old and still rocking it 🫀 apple indeed doesnt want us to repair, if only they did, a different world we would live in then. You have inspired me, perhaps i will take mine to a take to see if we can lenghten its life a bit more.
The sibling book is looking forward to meeting you also. I really cannot wait but time goes fast... And an enchanted, expansive, inspiring blue moon to you too. Thank you again.