The non-obsolescence of certain objects

I was just looking at a bird in a tree across the street (a cardinal, pretty much the only local bird that can be spotted in the current snowstorm) with a pair of binoculars... which my parents gave me on my ninth or tenth birthday. Not the fanciest things in the world, but still in good shape.

I don't expect a hard disk, made to much finer tolerances, to last 25+ years. On the other hand, I didn't spin the binocs at 5400RPM.

The non-obsolescence of certain objects

I was just looking at a bird in a tree across the street (a cardinal, pretty much the only local bird that can be spotted in the current snowstorm) with a pair of binoculars... which my parents gave me on my ninth or tenth birthday. Not the fanciest things in the world, but still in good shape.

I don't expect a hard disk, made to much finer tolerances, to last 25+ years. On the other hand, I didn't spin the binocs at 5400RPM.

Idiots on the road.

I saw perhaps a hundred vehicles on the road while waiting for Z on an early bus. (School closed early for snow today.)

About a dozen had no lights on. In a snow storm.

Ten of those were white or light grey. Eleven, just saw another out the window.

Idiots on the road.

I saw perhaps a hundred vehicles on the road while waiting for Z on an early bus. (School closed early for snow today.)

About a dozen had no lights on. In a snow storm.

Ten of those were white or light grey. Eleven, just saw another out the window.