Anachronistic problems

HisGirlFriday13

My co-worker is out today because her daughter is home sick with strep throat (fairly normal for a five-year-old) and scarlet fever. I didn't even know people still GOT scarlet fever!

Also, I am researching Rolodexes and business card filers, because even in 2014, I want to file the business cards I get from people rather than enter them into my Outlook and then chuck them. 

It's 2014, but apparently, my office is back in 1914.

KytchynWitche

There are somethings that are just better the analog way. Like Rolodexes.

I also did not know that Scarlet Fever was still a thing.

When I saw the thread title, I got excited because I thought we could bitch about anachronisms in literature, film, games etc. I had a dating sim a couple of years ago that was set in Austen's England, and actually features characters from P&P and S&S. I was hugely disappointed when Lizzie Bennett started talking about "what a card that Wilde chap is"...

HisGirlFriday13

At least once a day, our database system crashes on me, freezes up, kicks me out, etc. Rolodexes don't do that. 

If you want to bitch about anachronisms in literature, film, and games, we can do that! I'm game!

chibiyui

urbaneca said:

There are somethings that are just better the analog way. Like Rolodexes.

I also did not know that Scarlet Fever was still a thing.

When I saw the thread title, I got excited because I thought we could bitch about anachronisms in literature, film, games etc. I had a dating sim a couple of years ago that was set in Austen's England, and actually features characters from P&P and S&S. I was hugely disappointed when Lizzie Bennett started talking about "what a card that Wilde chap is"...

What was the dating sim called?

wandajune6

A work for a tech startup and have been asked to help with a paper mailing. I'm talking about things like ordering letterhead, buying stamps, and printing things. I live in email. I'm still pondering my response to the request.

HisGirlFriday13

wandajune6 said:

A work for a tech startup and have been asked to help with a paper mailing. I'm talking about things like ordering letterhead, buying stamps, and printing things. I live in email. I'm still pondering my response to the request.

Meanwhile, my desk looks like this happened to it:

pinkcow13

Scarlet fever?? Wow. No idea that was still around. My friend recently had gout, and I also did not know that was still around (although I could be wrong about gout, I think it may be more common than I thought.)

jdluvr06

Wow... Scarlett fever is vey rare now. I wonder how she got it.

KytchynWitche

chibiyui said:

There are somethings that are just better the analog way. Like Rolodexes.

I also did not know that Scarlet Fever was still a thing.

When I saw the thread title, I got excited because I thought we could bitch about anachronisms in literature, film, games etc. I had a dating sim a couple of years ago that was set in Austen's England, and actually features characters from P&P and S&S. I was hugely disappointed when Lizzie Bennett started talking about "what a card that Wilde chap is"...

What was the dating sim called?

I honestly can't remember. It was so dreadful, I uninstalled it within 5 minutes of starting it...

HisGirlFriday13 said:

At least once a day, our database system crashes on me, freezes up, kicks me out, etc. Rolodexes don't do that. 

If you want to bitch about anachronisms in literature, film, and games, we can do that! I'm game!

I freelance for a tech/gaming site from time to time. In 2012, FI and I attended SA's biggest gaming convention on behalf of the site (yay for press-passing expos!) and, I shit you not, EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF TECH we had with us died on the way to con. My phone, my computer, my tablet, FI's phone, FI's computer, boss's phone, boss's computer, other journo's phone, other journo's computer, and our camera... Thank goodness I had it drilled into me as a kid that you never go anywhere without a notebook and pen/pencil. We had to long-hand everything. And by "we", I mean me. Luckily we managed to get the camera and two of the four computers working once we were actually IN the press room, but I never want to relive that experience.

Moral of the story: DO NOT RELY ON TECH!

HisGirlFriday13

@pinkcow13 -- Gout is apparently still pretty common! DH's grandmother had it last year, and she was (more) miserable (than usual) because of it. 

But scarlet fever really surprised me. Maybe one of the doctor Knotties (@RajahBMFD) can weigh in on scarlet fever and how people get it and whether it's common.

ETF TK username

wandajune6

@HisGirl- I use so little paper that when I have it on my desk, I don't know what to do with it!

This does remind me that I got scarlet fever when I was in first grade. We spent our first few school years at a University lab school that enrolled the children of all visiting professors. "Back in the day" things were apparently a bit more relaxed and some rules were relaxed. My sister and I (twins, thus same grade) and a few other kids all ended up with scarlet fever.

jdluvr06

I was curious about how common scarlet fever is and I learned some interesting things. Scarlet fever is pretty rare but it is the same kind of virus as strep throat is. Yikes. Also I learned that it is still possible to get the plague. Eek!

Cookie Pusher

I work in print media, so yea, it sometimes feels like the Stone Age up in these parts. I still handle all of our mailings (and our lovely postage meter). I still have a Rolodex sitting in my cubicle. We still do a lot of our pre-production stuff on paper before transferring it to the computer (way easier to tape pieces of paper up on the wall than all try to crowd around a computer screen).

For the record, I LOVE my Rolodex. I still use one for my personal contacts. After losing my contacts while changing phones one too many times, I went back to keeping contact cards. They actually made planning our wedding guest list a ton easier too since we could just pull cards out for the people we wanted to invite and could figure out who we still needed addresses for.

APDSS22

jdluvr06 said:

I was curious about how common scarlet fever is and I learned some interesting things. Scarlet fever is pretty rare but it is the same kind of virus as strep throat is. Yikes. Also I learned that it is still possible to get the plague. Eek!

Oh yes, where my parents live in CO someone actually got it a few years ago that was the mother of a girl my sister was acquainted with.  Prairie dogs really are vermin.

grumbledore

Yeah we keep paper case cards of every case our firm handles, for eternity.  Because you never know if your server could explode or whatever.  And the backup.  

MrsMack10612

Cookie Pusher said:

I work in print media, so yea, it sometimes feels like the Stone Age up in these parts. I still handle all of our mailings (and our lovely postage meter). I still have a Rolodex sitting in my cubicle. We still do a lot of our pre-production stuff on paper before transferring it to the computer (way easier to tape pieces of paper up on the wall than all try to crowd around a computer screen).

For the record, I LOVE my Rolodex. I still use one for my personal contacts. After losing my contacts while changing phones one too many times, I went back to keeping contact cards. They actually made planning our wedding guest list a ton easier too since we could just pull cards out for the people we wanted to invite and could figure out who we still needed addresses for.

I do something similar. I have a good old address book that I use for keeping addresses up to date.  I write the names in pen (they don't change much) and right the addresses in pencil.  I update as needed and it's all there if I need it.  I also add children's names in as folks have kids.

CMGragain

Scarlet fever is what happens when you ignore strep throat.  It is treatable.  It is rare today because most parents take their kids to the doctor and get antibiotics .  It is very contagious.  I am guessing that the girl really just has the early stages - strep throat

.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_fever