Too. Much. Stuff. And being a knucklehead, I
take
in more stuff, such as a neighbor's record
collection
because I figure there's a fortune to be
made flipping
them on discogs. Instead, a
couple dozen keepers and
2 big boxes of dreck bound
for Goodwill, along with a
bunch of books, a box of magazine bags, and
a whole
mess of VHS tapes I recently
digitized. And what do you
suppose will happen to those digital files?
Well, computers
sure have made it possible to hoard
ever more crap, the
disposal of which is just a delete key away.
Progress! Heard
on the radio today how some phones have a black-and-white
mode--apparenty, that's less addictive. When I
was a kid I had a
tiny b/w Hitachi TV in my room. It was
always on but I didn't
fixate on it. It was more like a radio and
in those days it was
mostly reruns that filled the airwaves. Even
then I knew too much
screentime was a waste, so around the age of
12 I made one of the
few New Year's resolutions that ever stuck:
I swore off reruns, and
gradually tapered off the idiot box
forever--except for the glory days of
the Simpsons,
hours of taped episodes in that top left
box. I was using
the same Sharp VCR my mom bought in '82 to
digitize more stuff until it
choked on a
tape. Tonight I took it apart
and got the tape out.
The
machine
has a lot of moving
parts, held together with big
clunky screws and soldered wire. They sure
don't make 'em like they used to.
Then again, VHS is no way to archive the
past. But is this website any
better?
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