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Unobsolete Technology

I’ve had a really crazy, busy and fun day today. There’s way too much going on for July. Part of the entertainment is an ongoing project of cleaning out a storage room in Abercrombie, which I should get finished sometime this week. Because my schedule is so erratic and the room is so far away from the department’s office, I went and got a key so I can come and go at will. Here is Erin getting it for me:

Watching her do this triggered a memory of a photo that I had scanned some time ago believing it to show obsolete technology (which I still think it does). But I realized that it also contains the same unobsolete technology that lets me in and out of places all over campus:

Why does he have so many keys?

Also I love the poster (or whatever it is) on the window.

Bonus: I really covered a lot of ground today. I saw this in the Shepherd School this morning—a rainbow of ladders!

And because you’ve all been so good here’s a tantalizing glimpse of a future video:

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