{"id":5373,"date":"2010-12-10T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T04:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2010-12-11T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:48:29","slug":"wobegoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5373","title":{"rendered":"Wobegoned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today — okay, technically yesterday, though I’m time-stamping this — was another clean-up day at the office. I didn’t finish boxing up all the old files I wanted to, but I did throw away a big box of floppy disks and CDs, which at one point contained important manuscript files and are nothing much more than landfill or coasters. There were also a couple of zip disks in there, which I remember at one point being the<\/i> thing for file storage — my old boss at Penn State loved them — but which I realized I hadn’t actually seen<\/i> in use for a long, long time. I was amused to discover, then, via Wikipedia<\/a> that they are<\/i> still used…”by retro computing enthusiasts.” They went in the trash. Or recycling. Honestly, I handed off the box to our mail room guy and de facto office manager, and I’m not really sure what<\/i> he did with them. <\/p>\n

But they’re out of my hands, no longer collecting dust under the second chair in my cubicle, and nothing I have to bring with me when we move offices in the spring.<\/p>\n

After work, I met up with my parents for dinner, and then a live performance of A Prairie Home Companion<\/i>. It was a lot of fun, if maybe a little shaggy around the edges. (Friday night is the dress rehearsal for the Saturday radio broadcast.) There was a lot of great music, and some really nice poetry, though at this point I may be a little Home Companion<\/i>‘ed-out, having seen another simulcast of the show just back in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then again, I think I enjoyed the evening a lot more than the couple in front of me, who I think were most amused by the fact that one of the guest musicians, a really talented jazz pianist, was named Dick Hyman<\/a>. See — even frat boys can find something to giggle about on public radio!<\/p>\n

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