marcicat | I know I’m behind the times… (Reply)

…but it’s still amazing to me that I can watch a movie on my notebook computer. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s amazing to me that I *have* a notebook computer, but it’s like when Bill Bryson went to the Olympics in Australia, and didn’t really get how amazing the athletes were until he watched ping pong (that being the only sport he’d played enough himself to have a frame of reference for).

My computer — it’s incredible, but it’s like trying to conceptualize a trillion of something. It’s just… what is that, even? But movies, I get — movies are like this special treat, and they’re big for me, you know? It always felt big when I was a kid, and now it’s still this incredible feeling when the movie comes up on the screen. Like — wow, that’s a movie! Right there! At my fingertips! I made that happen!

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.