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- From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
- Subject: Re: As I look around me I see... PAPER!
- Message-ID: <1jfrdgm@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:02:48 GMT
- Organization: Holy Order of PowerBook 180 Lust
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- In article <1992Dec21.103550.9723@ac.dal.ca> revenge1@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >
- >"Jesus Christ! WHY did I hang on to all this JUNK?"
-
- Peeve? How is this a peeve? I *know* they sell trash bags in Nova Scotia,
- I've seen 'em myself. Hell, if you know what's trash it's easy to clean
- up.
-
- The difficult part of cleaning up is the process of deciding what's
- trash and what isn't. Each item must be examined, thought about,
- and sorted into "trash," "to be filed," and "might be useful someday"
- piles. The latter is the one that causes the headaches and fills
- the bottom left desk drawer with weird cables, mummified ImageWriter
- ribbons, and letters that I've been meaning to respond to since 1989.
-
- The sign of maturity that modern developmental psychologists have
- used as an indication of adulthood is the ability to successfully
- throw away old class notes. "Heck," thinks our young Dan, "I might
- *need* the old 4th-grade report on blue jays."
-
- Either I've groan up or the mess is taking over. I don't seem to have
- that report around any longer.
- --
- We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers Crystals.
- Let's see if they notice the difference.
-