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Saturday, December 1, 2012

I'm Sad That No Kid Will Ever Know What This Coffee Table Really Is

Amazing how times change and what constitues furniture and just how great this would be in my home!
 
 
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I'm Sad That No Kid Will Ever Know What This Coffee Table Really Is
Can you imagine the conversation you would have with a child, hell, a tween, about this coffee table? "You see, son. Before the cloud and usb sticks. Before hard drives and iPhones and Androids. Before the iPod and even before the CD player, there was something called the floppy disk. And it stored 1.44MB. Yeah, I know. You sext bigger files than that. But the thing is, people actually used the floppy disk like we use flash drives today!" More »