Brown Motion

As I was preparing to file taxes for the past year I was struck by how my screen time has been going up each year. See when I first started filing taxes I did it with a pencil and eraser on paper.  This tradition continued for years after the advent and accessibility of the internet. As I might have said in the past I am a reluctant technologist and have been wary of anything new and improved.  My first reaction is congruent to the Latin phrase 'Caveat Emptor'. So back to screen time.  For the past couple years I've resorted to using software to help file.  In part because the tech in that arena matured and also because taxes got wildly, stupidly complex.  Getting a salary and filing is not an easy task apparently. So to use the software you end up staring at the computer for a good chunk of time that was otherwise spent looking at a sheet of paper and printing with graphite or erasing said print if the calculation was wrong. Rewind many many years an...