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Oct 29, 2013

Fedora 20

Can Fedora 20 really be coming out next month? 10 years of insanly quick upgrade cycles! Ten years of serving you my media on Fedora! Go Fedora!

I'm looking.

My latest Resume. some demos.

my antique mirror

What do you do with old tapes that you haven't used? The package, bought at Leachmere, said $5.49. That price from circa 1990. I only used four of these microcassettes. I listened to my lame stories from back then. Then what? transfer it to mp3? Throw it away? Destroy it? You can't keep stuff forever. Old media that isn't going to be played ever again is not necessary in the house. If it's got some cool artwork, maybe keep it. But sometimes you open it and see mold, other decay, dried oils, muck of an unknown kind, termite mud. So what to do with it then? Put it in the trash!

So I threw it away, as if I'm committing some sin by doing it. I could carry it forward, put an ebay ad out to try and sell it. But who uses microcassettes?

I'll write a story. It'll have microcassettes as the software storage media. The eveil battallian bottle drone warrior clone bottles bots (Wheatan!) use them for their message. It'd become a cult thing. KIds would have to have an authentic microcassette tape from circa 1990 or they just wouldn't be cool. See them all down at the old-goods store (and retro placeee-o-crapp) thrift and tucket (put your sour thoughts in a bucket).

There is something sane about throwing away old technology, cutting bait on what has become a bad idea. Despite the long term usibility and perfection of audio cassette tapes, they were a superior way to record high-end audio, they are now a thing of the past. And no one ought to be making fresh recordings on them. If I look up microcassette tape on Ebay or Amazon will I find a marketplace for it? Of course, someone somewhere will be selling it. Probably for less than the cost of shipping.

wow. The price is high for it. I guess it must be a commodity for someone. What do they use it for now? Making forgeries of tapes made by famous people? Maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty in desposing of it. I guess I could fish it out of the trash, put it up on ebay and see if it sells. Maybe not.

Software Metal
 If it can't be broke
 you won't be either