Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Nostalgic Machines

I am developing a fondness for antique technology. It just seems so quaint. I couldn't ever start a collection however, it is just too psychopathic. Baudrillard wrote an entire theory on the eccentricity of collecting; I think he conceded that it was beyond anal. I do have an uncle in California who has a garage full of retro gardening equipment, wirelesses and blowtorches. The latter is especially weird, he even came over to the UK to attend a blowtorch collectors' convention. He said he came to visit us but I don't know. Maybe that's what sun does to you. Hell, it sounds better than being permanently grey.





What does a supreme testing machine even test??

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