You could fill the nation’s landfills with digital junk people still have. Most of it has no value. I stopped using these things because three years after I got them, they became obsolete. Most people’s underwear lasts longer than their computer equipment. That’s the great thing about underwear; it doesn’t become obsolete. Well, if you’re a guy.

Mark Patinkin discusses the scary computer equipment living in his attic in The Providence Journal (via obsoletethebook)

2 years ago on November 07, 2009 at 02:43am

via obsoletethebook

dewanajan reblogged this from wellthatsjustgreat
thebaffled reblogged this from wellthatsjustgreat
blanddiva11 liked this
wellthatsjustgreat liked this
un reblogged this from wellthatsjustgreat
wellthatsjustgreat reblogged this from obsoletethebook
carvedinsand liked this
ellephanta reblogged this from obsoletethebook
sydhamilton liked this
obsoletethebook posted this

hello, hello ellephanta

i n t r o d u c t i o n & i ii iii iv v rec

I write letters to dead people.

"What, after all, is a clock? Without your grownup it is nothing. It is the grownup who winds it, who sets it back or ahead, who takes it to the watchmaker to be checked, cleaned, and when necessary repaired. Just as with the cuckoo that stops calling too soon, just as with upset saltcellars, spiders seen in the morning, black cats on the left, the oil portrait of Uncle that falls off the wall because the nail has come loose in the plaster, just as in a mirror, grownups see more in and behind a clock than any clock can justify."

Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum

← Previous Next →