Happy Hours: Yeah, I'm actually in the market for a VCR. Both of mine mysteriously stopped working and I've still got a bunch of tapes.

I was in the process of converting them to disc a few years back when I had to move and completely lost track of where I was.

I'm trying to organize discs right now - ran across "Porn Compilation 1" the other day. Hey, don't knock it - chicks in the '90s were hot!

I give it a 50/50 chance you originally wrote "came across", then thought again when you proof-read you post.

skinink: There's a small PC shop near me that still has old tech they are selling at the original retail price. They don't mark down anything. They are selling copies of Office XP at full price. And they really overcharge on current technology. I'm almost tempted to see if I can open my own shop because I can't understand how they can continue to sell that overpriced stuff especially since there's a Best Buy and a Target within five miles of the place.

They probably have a business model similar to this amazing used book store that was around when I was in high school. It was owned and operated by one guy, and you could always find amazing books there, at good prices. Great, except that the guy was this scuzzy old junkie, who would often sit behind the counter taking big swigs of bourbon from the bottle, and was always drunk or high. He'd be awesomely rude to customers and scare off all but the customers who found him amusing. Like, some middle class woman would come in with some books to sell and he'd look at them and say "fark this shiat, this one is shiat, I wouldn't give this one away for free, but this one is good. I'll take it.". He had great taste in books.

Anyway, he preferred not to have many customers because the real money was in the heroin sales and sometimes illegal porn production he did in the back.

Karac: And as far as faxes, I had opportunity to use one just today. Bought a new car and the insurance company had to fax the new proof-of-insurance to the dealer. A 10 digit number is probably easier to use and not screw up to send a few pieces of paper that'll get printed out anyway than to write up a pdf, save it, and email it to the right address that you'll never use again or want to remember.

Places still use faxes because it is "more secure". I need send/receive a fax 2-3 times a year and it's a pain in the ass. I don't have a landline and I'm not in the mood to pay $10-$15/mo for efax or rapid fax to use it twice a year.

And a TI graphing calculator.

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