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  Once, while rifling through the toolshed, I came across a poster advertising an IBM computer the size of a refrigerator. Sitting at the control board was my dad the engineer, years younger, examining a printout no larger than a grocery receipt. When I asked about it, he explained that he had worked with a team devising a memory chip capable of storing up to fifteen pages' worth of information. Out came the notepad and pencil, and I was trapped for hours as he answered every question except the one I had asked: "were you allowed to wear makeup and run through a variety of different poses, or did they get the picture on the first take?"

David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day


 
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June 2001
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