15 years

The camcorder on the left is from 2000; the one on the right is brand new. The old one weighs 2.5 pounds, has a 25x optical zoom, and records an hour of digital old-style video onto a 1.5 ounce tape.  The new one weighs 10 ounces, has a 40x optical zoom, and records 2.5 hours of high-definition video onto a 1.5 gram memory card.  And is waterproof to 16 feet.
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Glitter

We had our “tenant appreciation breakfast” this morning at work. We had a new caterer, and everything was very pretty, but the glitter was a bit much. As one of my coworkers said, it looked like a unicorn had been using our elevator.

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Typewriter

This is my grandfather’s typewriter, purchased new in 1934. My grandmother continued to use it through the 1980s. It still works, though it could use a good cleaning (which I’ll give it) and the rollers underneath the platen have hardened and developed flat spots so paper does not feed smoothly.

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