A colleague tells me about driving to Atlanta recently to fetch some digitized images. His client hadn’t been able to file share them, because the images, presumably unseen since the 90s, were stored on 5.25″ floppy disks that not a single machine on the premises was capable of reading. Eventually, a data transfer service had to be hired to burn the images to CD, […]
The delivery men were waiting for their money. The bulky old washing machine, the recliner and the dark blue terry cloth bathrobe they’d found in storage – God knows where – had belonged to one of my grandparents. I wasn’t sure which. I didn’t care. “You need to pay the $40 property tax that’s due on these,” one said. “They can’t […]
Every year, AT&T deposits a big stack of phone books in front of our building. The building itself is over 120 years old, so there’s something fitting about this, obsolescence seeking antiquity. A day or two later, the phone books are moved downstairs to the mail room, also a thing of the soon-to-be-past, where they […]
