Gah

[telophase]

Just went back over the Can't Sleep Con Will Eat Me* prose bits I wrote in 2003 and posted in 2006** and ... wow, there's been so much technological change since then that I pretty much have to update every single bit of technology I mentioned. Everybody has cell phones now, not just the most with-it students. No disks, it's pretty much all flash drives now. You no longer walk all the way across campus to check your email in the lab because (a) there's probably a lab in every single building nearby and (b) you probably have a laptop or smartphone anyway. I'll have to use printing problems as the thing that the girl in the first scene bitches about, because everyone on the campus I works on comes to the library lab to print their papers instead of doing it at home (at least for the first half the semester, as we give them 200 free prints).





* If you've joined my blog in the years since Can't Sleep, it's my, mothoc, and myrialux's late unlamented webcomic. It's set in a college SF club.

** Under a filter. I thought about digging it back out and polishing it up a bit more and getting a proper beta for it, from someone unfamiliar with Can't Sleep, just to see if it sparks more ideas in that vein. We'll see.

Comments

[dsgood]

On changes in use of technology: Some students might use texting more than email. And there are people who use their cell phones as watches.

[telophase]

Yup. And I should probably throw in Facebook mentions as well.

All this really nails it down to one time period, but unfortunately with tech-savvy kids as main characters, it's kind of hard not to.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Can't Sleep is not unlamented. Hope for it's possible rebirth is the reason I started reading your blog originally. Admittedly I've given up on that long ago and now I read because you're just cool and stuff.

On that note, are the archives alive somewhere? It would be really cool to read Can't Sleep again sometime.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Not too long ago they were at cantsleep.magatsu.net, but it's inexplicably throwing an error right now...

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely make a note to check that link again later to see if they have come back. That would be most excellent.

It was one of my favorite web comics. Admittedly this is mainly because I lived much of it, so that's a somewhat limited audience. But an appreciative one. :)

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Not even an error anymore at cantsleep.magatsu.net, now it's a redirect to what looks like it might be a Chinese parking page site.

I am sadfaced.

:(