Monday, March 06, 2006

265. Paradox in a box two boxes.

My favorite joke of the century is: "In the future, the modern office will be paperless."

Sad thing is I actually believed it. And when I get packages, I feel even more foolish for my optimism.

Take, for example, my latest purchase. See if you can find it in this picture. 10 points if you do!



Am I the only one who finds it ironic that my super razor-thin phone came in 2 boxes and with enough paper to fill a small local library?

Other than the phone itself, the instructional CD was the only material I found useful. What year is futuristic enough for companies to finally send out CDs only, and let people request paper instructions if needed? Sadly, the answer is not 2006.

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I forgot to mention that I ordered my phone on-line. I guess that is too subtle a clue for the phone company to think that just maybe I would only need a CD or even PDFs e-mailed to me? It's a real poser, isn't it.

2 comments:

Tom Bozzo said...

I'm reminded a bit of the old controversy over Apple offering the original iMac w/o the floppy disk drive. Probably not uncoincidentally, I don't think any Apple product ships with that much paper.

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uwoaxj: UW Owns An XJ -- when you know treating university presidents like corporate executives has gotten out of hand.

Unknown said...

Apple can do no wrong. Unless, of course, they do wrong.

Love your word verification definition! I hope you submitted it to Oscar.