Downsizing, Part 2

[bjarvis]

Wow... I still have notes from the mid-1980s on how to use the job control language on a VAX/VMS system to submit Fortran programs to the Cray supercomputer. Must resist the urge to keep these...

I'm definitely not going to miss my old biology and botany notes: I had absolutely no interest in those courses but I needed science credits for my BSc. Must resist the urge to burn these...

I've tossed a tonne of paper from old computer science courses. Most of those I won't miss. Looking through the papers from the mandatory English composition classes though, I see points where I and the professor disagreed vehemently on issues of style and purpose. Must resist the urge to hunt down those same professors to re-argue these same points...

The copy of my work portfolio on American Sign Language and interpreting/translating held up pretty well, although I now see a few weak spots which I suspect I let go because of time pressure and looming deadlines. Must resist the urge to redraft decades-old papers...

One of my courses in 1999 required a 15-20 page autobiography. It was an interesting if somewhat sanitized read. Must resist the urge to invent a time machine to correct past mistakes...

Comments

[vasilatos]

... and had we established that you don't have anything left from the toronto motss.con?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Not 100% yet. I knew the shelves I attacked last night wouldn't have anything and I've confirmed I have nothing at the storage locker. There are still three drawers in a somewhat inaccessible filing cabinet in the back room of our basement which may yet contain treasures of the distant past.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

Don't throw away those notes, someone might release a Cray emulator for the iPhone!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Which lead me to wonder while I was in the shower this morning: has anyone created a version of boinc (http://boinc.berkeley.edu) for PDAs/smart phones? There's a lot of computing power in the masses of devices out there.

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

Yeah..., until the battery goes dead in just 4 hours. :)

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

I can so appreciate this. I downsized quite a bit. After moving here to Seattle, I can see I could downsize even more depending where I go to live. Even the clothes I bought with me..., I'm insane for keeping so much of this crap. I've got to further lighten the load.