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Letter Collecting Nerd

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

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

Turd - 'It's one of a kind.'

Archimedes statue with a lever

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

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

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

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

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

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

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

Crane Game. Ball Game.

Bobbies library of jeans

Catalogue of little books.

"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...

"Bootsy has welcomed the vacuum robot into our home in her own unique way."

"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

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

Gianni Tatti's Dining-Room Chair

Attic of hopes and dreams...

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

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: The Pied Piper

"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.

Pun on Excalibur - Swiss Army knife appears from the lake.

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

Dive in Archive.

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

A caveman attempting to make a cart

"... No, when I say, 'you must let go of the past' I mean you must return that vase to the museum you took it from."