We have a mongo collection of coasters, complete with felt backs.

Sometimes I glued it over the printed side, sometimes over the data side - just to keep things interesting.

Not sure how "useful" that is though, cause really...how many coasters does one family need?

Yeah, coasters were the first thing I did actually create, although I used the little adhesive rubber feet, because there's nothing cooler than a coaster that's isolated from harmonic vibration.

how many coasters does one family need?

We have like infinity of them.

Pshaw. I remember back when no one actually bothered to buy floppy disks because AOL would supply all that you needed.

Husband worked at an ISP where the shining slippery piles of unwanted CDs numbered in the hundreds. I offered to string them together edge to edge with fishing line, in a sort of 21st Century homage to the 60s beaded drapery, and hang them in the office windows (which needed some protection from the sun).

But the owner thought the idea lacked class, so instead the CDs continued to stack up and take over space while the men moved them all about but NEVER threw away, because they continued to believed that eventually they'd come up with a clever idea.

P.S. I always thought the design of JUNO's logo was exceptionally good.

Phelps, that's true, but floppies were dull, physically and figuratively.

they continued to believed that eventually they'd come up with a clever idea.

I'm glad to hear that I wasn't alone.

I always thought the design of JUNO's logo was exceptionally good.

Yeah, but what is it? It reminds me of a duck head.

I thought it was an eye and the nib of a fountain pen ... to symbolize a new way to see/read and write perhaps?

Did we talk about those hateful Netflix discs?

Actually it's not the discs, it's the envelopes. In the old days (incidentally, lots of CDs still find their way into the mail stream), most CDs were in some sort of hard cardboard case. Netflix discs come in floppy envelopes. Just try getting one of those into a tiny mailbox with one hand while a stiff breeze is blowing.

Deborah, I still see a duck head, symbolizing mankind's innate desire to fly south for the winter in order to have better web browsing weather.

Jim, I'm pretty sure you mentioned them in either a post or a comment. I take what you write seriously, you know.

Just try getting one of those into a tiny mailbox with one hand while a stiff breeze is blowing.

Is this the place where you warn, "professional at work; don't try this at home"?

Back when I was single, had a lot of spare time, and still had close vision, I used to render very finely-detailed paint jobs upon little metal soldiers of the future about 1.5" tall.

The ISP CDs made wonderful paint palettes.

I missed when AOL stopped sending out floppies. It was always nice to have a few extra diskettes around. :)