FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 27, 2009

Frankly, my dear Paige… the essay doesn’t give a darn.

For such times were floppy disks and flash drives born.

I like how you can create these things. Work of art. I am definitely adding this to my favorites.

I kid you not, once when I was working at Micron I had a young gal call up with problems with reading a floppy disk. She had saved a important college paper on it and than for some bizarre reason deleted it from her computer. Now the disk is the only copy

Come to find out that it was due that day and the night before to make sure she did not forget it she stuck the thing to her refrigerator with a kitchen magnet.

Her next essay will be entitled “in praise of the stapler”.

I had a genius (in college) save it on one computer’s hard drive, then not understand how it’s not there on a different computer’s hard drive.

Always keep multiple copies of documents both printed and digital