Remember these?

I saved these (obviously) and glued pairs of them back-to-back ostensibly as “coasters” for mugs of hot coffee (for use primarily in the garage). But where they’ve been residing for many, many years is under [housecleaning] attack in preparation for a full house during the total solar eclipse in April.

The housecleaning endeavor finds lots ’n’ lots of paper getting shredded, set in a pile to be put through the printer (for “temporary” paperwork), or sent directly to the recycling bin. (Curbside trash and recycling pickup is tomorrow.)

Things like this have a different fate: photographed for 365 and then — whoosh! — into the trash.

My favorite of these installation CDs is the one for Juno: “Y2K Compliant.” So that tells you how old these are! The lineup:
    • AOL v.5.0,
    • Earthlink 2.3,
    • Compuserve v.4.0,
    • MSN v.2.5,
    • Juno v.4.0.
Yeeaahh… I’m a little amazed that all of these companies are still in business in one way or another. (My dad had a Juno email for a time.)

Getting this photo was a little project unto itself, with this not-quite-in-focus result being the best one. I realized my foldio1 has an almost-dead LED light strip, so I’m pursuing a replacement for that. Trying to eliminate all the glare and reflections off the CDs wasn’t easy: I use the Ott Lite and my [new] phone flashlight. Meh. The photo is posted now and the double-disks can go to the curb tonight.

[ IMG_4213_ON1_tm :: 60mm :: f/3.2 :: 1/30" :: +0.3 :: ISO 800 :: Ott Lite ]

January 23 posts
  1 year ago: “Lemon meringue pie”
 2 years ago: “Those eyes!”
 3 years ago: No post
 4 years ago: “Glassware”
 5 years ago: “Travel day”
 6 years ago: “Old and new [Filler]” (Hotel door stops)
 7 years ago: “… These are not: OUCH!”
 8 years ago: “Houndstooth”
 9 years ago: “Cleaning up”
10 years ago: “To the safe deposit box!” (Mortgage: “PAID”!)
11 years ago: “Lines”
12 years ago: “Is that for a theme?”
13 years ago: “I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite.”

[Mags]

They make great mobiles too! All kinds of them.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam Yeah, there’s an “installation” I’ve been contemplating photographing-and-posting near the theater for which I’m a volunteer Board member.

[Maggiemae]

Good use of these discs no longer used! I've got a drawer full of tons of them!

[Kathy]

I can see these on the wall in the computer room.

[bkb in the city]

Very nice