{"id":35191,"date":"2026-05-10T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35191"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:41:39","slug":"i-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/10\/i-dont-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tam K.<\/a> links to a Wall Street Journal<\/em> feature piece entitled Our Longing for Inconvenience<\/a> and she, Ms. K., quotes:<\/p>\n

I am not the only one thinking about the upsides of inconvenience, it seems; there is even a term, frictionmaxxing, to describe the trend of people resisting the lulling ease of screens. On a Saturday morning when I do not have to help a friend move, I am in bed scrolling Instagram. One video features what appears to be an elder millennial saying that he wants the nineties back. He wants a VCR. He wants old-school arcade machines that you have to feed with quarters. He wants a Walkman and cassette tapes to put in said Walkman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, sorry, don’t understand.<\/p>\n

Number of video games that take quarters in my office right now: 2 (Trivia Whiz IV and Arkanoid). Nogglestead features many audiocassette players in the main stereo in the parlor, the unit I just put in my office<\/a>, the radio in the storm room, the radio in the garage, and<\/em> in the main vehicle of Nogglestead (my beautiful wife plays her favorite mixed tapes in it; I play old audiocourses, as you know). The Walkman? I think it’s in the office closet or a bin in the storeroom. VCR? I have one hooked up (although the last videocassette I watched was in March<\/a>), and<\/em> I have some backups in storage for when this one fails (spare DVD players, too, because their time is going<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I mean, I guess the original author was someone who never had these things. I am someone who has them and has never given them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tam K. links to a Wall Street Journal feature piece entitled Our Longing for Inconvenience and she, Ms. K., quotes: I am not the only one thinking about the upsides of inconvenience, it seems; there is even a term, frictionmaxxing, to describe the trend of people resisting the lulling ease of screens. On a Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35194,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions\/35194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}