1. an expensive notepad
2. an expensive stereo
3. a poorly designed breakfast-in-bed tray
4. an expensive chess board
5. a small DVD player
6. an expensive post-it
7. an expensive paperweight
8. a cumbersome camera
9. an expensive calendar
10. an expensive photo album
11. a disorganized filing cabinet
12. a cluttered desk
+++
“i hate it when i lose internet and my facebook machine just becomes a typewriter that plays dvds”
– kcdanger
originally published on the shoreline receding, with additional items added by riese & laneia.
‘listling without commentary’ concept inspired by / stolen from the awl
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13. Something to play Diner Dash and Civ on!
14. A home for all my lesbian sims.
holla!
also a graveyard for my murdered sims.
my friend totes lost internet this morning so this list is so relevant right now. i totes just texted her this whole article, i hope it makes her feel a bit better.
Whenever our router breaks, I feel like that episode of south park.
Don’t forget lap warmer and cat magnet.
It’s always interesting trying to balance having both the laptop and the cat on your lap (and then continuing to use the laptop while the cat inevitably lays on your arms)
I know the feeling x1,000. My kitten is too cute to move, but it’s really difficult to type like that.
useless object which suddenly makes you hyperaware of the fact that you otherwise spend 8+ out of any given 24 hrs staring at it.
sigh.
yep, this right here.
word.
word^2
make it 12+ and you have an idea of my life :)
I had originally written 12+ but I said to myself, hey, some people -might- have lives… with you on the 12+.
So true!
Sometimes I lose the internet, and then I play solitaire for like two hours, and then I slowly back away from my computer and go outside, and it is lovely.
i know right? even when i didn’t have internet i was still trying to find things to do on my computer. then i realized i could read a book.
My computer recently spazzed on me, and I spent the entire morning reading a book. It was nice.
#3. I totally do this with my laptop all the time. lol
An over-sized iPod.
An expensive fancy calculator.
15. an expensive calculator
Ko, sorry I hadn’t scrolled down all the way. great minds think alike…
an expensive unwieldy alarm clock
A computer. …that you can write programs with.
Just me?
….wait. hold the phone.
are you telling me that i can use this thing if i’m not connected to the internet?
A nice device reading stories to you
(audio-books are sooo nice)
The Borg-Cube to my mp3-player
A photo album
A reason to get mad :D
Ahh this is super-relevant to my life when I was stuck on Amtrak for 14 hours. How do they still not have wifi?? I did have an L-word DVD though, so.