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Remember the laser pointer craze of the late-90s?

At first, only a few individuals owned a laser pointer and these were usually educators or business folk utilizing them for their intended purpose; as a tool to aide in presentations. Before the laser pointer, a business person or educator would have to extend a long rod towards the presentation and depending on the medium, whether it be Powerpoint or “old school” transparencies, you either resembled a school marm wagging her ruler at her frightened students or a Jedi knight in training. Truth be told, nothing was as effective as the laser pointer, a small pen-sized device that emitted a laser at a reach between 50 feet to 20 yards, depending on the quality of the pointer itself.

The Amish are an interesting folk. When I was a kid I couldn’t quite understand why they chose to go about their lives without the modern convienances of everyday technology. It was perplexing to me that inside a typical Amish dwelling there were no toasters, refridgerators, televisions, microwaves or anything that ran on electricity.

Instead of using common technological and electrical devices, the Amish go about their lives using candles, washboards, butter-churners and the obligatory outhouse.