Box 75.....

This afternoon, I pulled another box of computer prinouts out of the storage unit to go through. It contained posts from rec.arts.comics from 1987. I didn't have time to read through every post, so I quickly went through the printouts and put them in a carbdoard tote for recycling. After the box was done (about an hour later), I then drove to the local recycle dumpster and dumped them.

It's no longer worth my time to sift through printouts looking for a few articles I want to save. Every few years, I'd be repeating the process -- culling the ones I want to save and pitching the rest -- and I'd never be finished.

The reason I was hanging onto these posts is that a bunch of them had discussion on the Watchmen comic book series, as that was the time the series came out. Would people really be interested in 20-year-old Usenet posts? I once thought so, but now, I'm thinking "Probably not." Especially if they're not already in electronic format. These would take too long to scan and error-correct.

"Get off my TV!"

Every so often, while channel surfing, I occasionally come across one of a small handful of people that I have no desire to listen to. I'll either press the mute button while saying "Shut up!" or hurriedly switch the channel while saying "Get off my TV!"

( Right now, the list is rather short: Pat Robertson, Bill O'Reilly, and Nancy Grace. )