Realization:

The reason my ten year old calculator still works perfectly is because calculators have to survive getting knocked around for years in backpacks by teenagers. That was obvious. What I just realized is that, unlike, say, an iPhone, there's no planned obsolescence; math doesn't change, and there are thousands of new customers, guaranteed, each year.. I don't need to update my firmware to do Trigonometry, and I still have no idea what "STATVAR" is for. I found a comparable calculator to my old TI-34 II, which cost around $30 back in 2001, for 15 bucks. It's mostly the high-end stuff that doesn't change.

I remember reading a magazine article back in 2000 about whether one's computer could handle browsing the internet while it burned a CD. It made me giggle, remembering it back in 2007.

The empty flavor packet for those cheap noodles has been sitting on the counter for a week.

I picked it up to throw it away, and happened to turn it over. The packet reccommends putting the noodles on pita bread and topping it with a little tuna and mayo.

While it is nice to see some ambition, I can't help but be amused at the pretense that any significant portion of the product's target demographic are going to eat it in any other way than a)in a pot b)in a bowl.

Also, there is no dignified way to eat spaghetti.