Of the four of us here at Ectomo I am the odd man out. While I may now have my very own, specially tailored, Asteriskpunk I am, far and away, the most technologically backwards. While John and Eliza multitask and network furiously on their ultra hip Apple laptops, Qais is busy overseeing a massive RAID configuration chock full of more digital information than any one human can absorb in their lifetime, all while a legion of Roombas do his bidding.

They sneer mercilessly at my bewilderment of social networking chicanery and internet rigmarole. They condescend to send me e-mail –a word I even punctuate like a Luddite– when they would much prefer to IM or send by some other, newfangled web based telegraphy. In a world of constant connectivity, where my peers are swiftly and easily integrating mobile communication into their daily lives while practically breeding it into their offspring I hope to be the last remaining person or, at the very least, the last of my generation without a cellphone.

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I do not personally know Steve Erenburg, who goes by the name of Radio Guy, but he may be one of the coolest people I’ve never met. This is due, in large part, to the fact that he happens to collect and deal in such oddities as the “Shock Therapy Helmet” and “Oudin Resonator”, among other various contraptions, medical instruments, and equipment, including this incredible firefighter’s respirator from the 1800s. I badly want one of these, you know, just to wear around the house.

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