Memories Archivist Gifts

"Hey! This was rubber stamped!"

My First Camera

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

The Seven Dwarfs After Therapy

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"I'll be a little late. I'm working a double shift."

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

"Oops! I just deleted all your files. Can you repeat everything you've ever told me?"

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

Letter Collecting Nerd

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

I painted them all from memory.

Catalogue of little books.

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

A boy with a camera

Attic of hopes and dreams...

'Admit it, you've been laughing behind my back ever since 1957 when we went in that hall of mirrors in Skegness!'

"We laughed. We cried. But mostly we watched TV."

It's my biggest project - a database of all my sister's boyfriends.

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

Green Balloon

'Lost Diary'

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.