September 21, 2000
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New rule to live by: Take something home every day. This guideline has developed out of my need to reduce the mountain of crap I have collected in my office over the past 12 years. Actually, crap is really not the right word from my perspective. A much better description would be “amazingly useful stuff I can’t bare to see tossed away that most other people would consider crap”. Ultimately, I am striving towards the goal of getting all of my shit in one bucket. Here’s how it’s been going this week:
- Monday: took home six back issues of the German design magazine Page, three copies of Design Graphics magazine from Australia, and the vintage Mac IIcx that used to serve this site
- Tuesday: off went the prototype BeBox enclosure
- Wednesday: grabbed a two-foot DB-9 to DIN serial cable that had mysteriously appeared on my desk one day, and an extra Newton power adapter I forgot I had lying around
- Thursday: the Macintosh Quadra 840av without the floppy and hard drive bought at our last company equipment auction that has been sitting on top of my filing cabinet for the past several months, and my speaker’s notes for The Web Reality Tour talk I gave in the fall of 1998
I also recycled a foot high stack of magazines, catalogs, and assorted bits of outdated corporate paper storm particles. The success of this plan is dependent on not only maintaining the flow out of the office, but also restricting the intake of fresh acquisitions. I’m not going cold turkey, but I am trying to be more persnickety about what I accept. I think Mike is getting a bit frustrated at the number of times he has offered me a prime piece of dump-fodder, only to have his generosity kindly kiboshed.
I mean, do I really need three more unshielded VGA extension cables? Probably not.
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