A Message From My Neighbors About Technology

My Fatherinlaw bought us a printer today, unsolicited.  Now when he comes to stay, he can print things and not have to look at us like we’re nuts for not having a printer.  Instead, he will look at us like we’re assholes for not having any ink in the printer he bought us.

Same day, our neighbors recycled their printer, Brooklyn style (meaning they put it on the curb so someone on the block could take it, which a neighbor did).  As you can see, our neighbors’ printer can’t print anymore, it can only scan…

Oddly, the free printer above comes with multiple ink cartiridges which, as we all know, is where owning a printer gets expensive.  And, in typical Brooklyn fashion, not knowing how to properly recycle such a large piece of technology, our neighbor absolved herself of the guilt of leaving a chunk of crap (no offense, Todd) on the sidewalk by letting us all know the chunk of crap still has value, and exactly what that value is (scanning).

It worked, someone grabbed it.

In other news, our family has a land-line telephone.  Neither my wife nor I know the phone’s number.  We only have it because it would cost us more to buy internet and cable from Cablevision than to buy internet, cable and phone combined in their “Triple Play” package.

Also, there’s a store in my neighborhood that sells natural gas.  A store.  That sells gas.

If I went back to being a poet, I would hope my blog would get more interesting than entries like this.  But it’s free.


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