I saw this in my email and exclaimed, "HEY! I know this fella!"

Folks in the office kinda stared, but they're used to me.
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A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

luddite

PRONUNCIATION: (LUHD-yt)

MEANING:
noun: One who opposes or avoids the use of new technology.

ETYMOLOGY:
After the Luddites, name taken by textile workers in England during 1811-1816 who destroyed machinery that was displacing them. They took the name after one Ned Ludd, whose identity is not clear. Ned Ludd is said to have destroyed, in a fit of insanity, a knitting frame in 1779. In response to the Luddites, the British parliament passed the Frame Breaking Act which made the destroying of knitting frames punishable by death.

USAGE:
"But I'm not a luddite. I'll keep my automatic coffee-maker, my computer, and my automatic dishwasher, thank you!" ~ Richard Packham; Elaborate Appliances Don't Justify the Cost or the Space; The News-Review (Roseburg, Oregon); Mar 21, 2010.

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That is funny Doxie!

Before I saw this post from Doxie, an old friend in New Mexico e-mailed me the link. I forwarded it to my editor at the New-Review, and she had already seen it, sent to her by a friend in Vancouver.

I guess I am finally famous! :-)

I write a general opinion column every other Sunday for the local newspaper, called "View From The Hill" and this was a column I wrote recently.

Anybody interested in reading other columns (they are all archived) go to the paper's website at http://www.nrtoday.com and search for "packham".