Late Adopter

Frankly speaking, I am not big on change. Oh yeah, the Obama business was pretty good, and I recognize that change is necessary for progress, blah blah blah, but man, it doesn't come easy for me. I was made excruciatingly aware of this by my stubborn refusal to log into CV's back end at our new home. Why? Because it was going to be <cringe>different</cringe>. I actually can't make any sense of this behavior on my part, because science is all about change. I have no problem changing topics and points of view in a scientific context. Want to know what I'll be working on in 5 years? It'll probably be found in the set of things on which I am currently not working, nor have ever worked on before. But technologically-driven changes in my day-to-day behavior? Scaaaaaary. One of my students mistakenly assumed that I was a bleeding edge ...