[crouton] Nathaniel Trost: 7 Years After The Y2K Bug Killed Us All

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Posted by Nathaniel Trost:
7 Years After The Y2K Bug Killed Us All
http://crouton.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2006_12_31-2007_01_06.shtml#1167597247


   Goodness, itâs the end of 2006.
   While I didnât have as traditional a holiday season as many, it was
   still rather busy. A couple weeks away from home juggling two projects
   with looming milestone deadlines, followed by my younger brother and
   sister flying in for Christmas.
   I continue to be very pleased with the MacBook Pro. Given the amount
   of traveling Iâve been doing, it has been well, well worth the
   investment. The Wii also lived up to my expectations. It remains
   extremely entertaining to expose people to the cute psychosis of
   Rayman, and it was great fun playing Wii Sports with my siblings. Itâs
   neat now the Wii is a bit of an equalizer, Iâm the experienced
   videogame player, but my sister cleaned up at bowling, and my brother
   beat me at baseball (after a couple 0-0 ties). We did all end up a bit
   sore from repeated baseball and bowling matches, which is a testament
   to how easy it is to get into the games.
   I still have yet to actually fire up Zelda, since I know I really need
   to give it a few hours in my first sitting. âPlay Zeldaâ is in my
   laundry list of to-do items for this weekend, but a bit further down
   on the priority chain.
   Houseguests over the holidays did, however, bump cleaning and
   straightening way up on the to-do list. My living room had again
   become cluttered with boxes as I attempted to rationalize the contents
   of the garage. One of the main problems I grapple with is the boxes
   and boxes of books, magazines and other masses of paper that I am
   loathe to get rid of. One of my guilty space-eating pleasures consists
   of volumes of computer magazines from the 1980s. The problem is they
   consume a lot of mass, not to mention cubic volume. This Christmas I
   had to make the decision whether or not to dispose of my paper copies
   of [1]Call A.P.P.L.E., [2]Computer Gaming World and [3]Nibble, to
   replace them with electronic versions. None of them were worth enough
   on eBay to be worth the hassle of trying to sell them, so it was keep,
   or dumpster. Despite the brief pang of hesitation, the dumpster won
   out and saved me half a dozen boxes of space.
   I am keeping my complete set of 1980s [4]BYTE and [5]Softalk magazines
   forever. Some things are just historical.

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-A.P.P.L.E.
   2. http://cgw.filefront.com/
   3. http://www.nibblemagazine.com/
   4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYTE_magazine
   5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk