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Monday August 12, 2019 subscribe |
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| monday morning, cloudy,
low 60s, high of 77 predicted, 80% humidity. going to west seattle to dismantle jan's deck, rearrange layout, replace delaminating composite boards, guaranteed for 30 years, barely lasted 10. that's how it is, technology keeps improving but the standards are slipping. the only way to move the economy forward is planned obsolescence-- break it, replace it. when i was a kid people rented their phones from Ma Bell and those black rotary doorstops lasted 50 years or more. now it's expected (almost required) to upgrade every 3 years to the latest surveillance device and pay for the privilege of it spying on you. that's progress, i guess. and so concludes today's forecast... (but! to their credit, my makita tools last and last.) |
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