Treatment Bound

The city is covered in sheets of ice and a slight rain continues to mist the air. This sort of weather, when the trees are covered in sleeves of ice, is scary ever since the October Surprise Storm of '007 (as it has became affectionately known). But I think since most of the trees in town were already damaged beyond recognition last October, most of the branches will remain on the trees this time.

We got 2 MACs on the fritz and I have surrender as the in-house maintenance guy. They are being delivered to the repair shop this morning. A sad computer day at OW headquarters. Well it is probably time that I moved to the all-laptop format anyway.

I always wonder about (and aloud sometimes) if the computer had never made the advancement and the infiltration into our business, where would we all be? The cut and paste of the past has become a ghost, and most kids out of school (within the last 20 years...) have never even wielded an Xacto. They don't know about rubylith and they have never even seen a stat camera. Gone are the days when this business was about craft.

How has the computer made this business easier? Well things get done faster, but are the getting done better...? Sometimes I wonder. Has the elimination of the 'craftsman' hurt this business? Has the onslaught of desktop publishing in the '80s killed the craftsman?