Can you open this for me?
My coworker was at a garage sale and found an Addams Family calendar maker program for PC. She was like OMFG I’M SO GETTING THIS. It cost like, a quarter or something. Anyway, it is perfect because she loves the Addams Family and I love calendars. No just kidding. I hate calendars. But, I need calendars that I can customize for the jobby job. Listen, it’s not very interesting, just trust me when I say that I was stoked upon seeing this sweet, sweet Addams Family calendar maker. Like, holy shit, right? Right? ADDAMS FAMILY CALENDAR, PEOPLE. The “Wednesday” column will actually be Wednesday Effing Adams. Like, shut up!
But then she opens it and she’s like OMG HEY ANNIE CAN YOU OPEN THIS?
We start laughing. I mean, seriously, this is what you get for spending a quarter on a calendar maker, and not just doing it in Excel or Word or whatever. But, if we did that 1) It would not have cool Addams Family crap all over it and 2) It would require me having to make it, and I have better things to do with my time, like Twittering or trying to figure out what Beck is yelling in the beginning of “Hollywood Freaks” (It could be: hear my nut, he my nun, heed my nut. Or something. Also his real name is Bek Campbell. No shit.). Anyway, I haven’t seen a quarter-inch floppy in like, I dunno, ten years. My first computer had the FULL SIZED ones. Remember that? It was like the size of a fucking sheet of paper and you shoved it in your computer that had like 4 MB. Anyway so then we were kidding around and someone who is younger was like, what is that? And then a little piece of me kind of died. Sigh. Floppy disks people. We need some kind of museum so people don’t forget the past and repeat the mistakes. Anyway, so there’s no Addams Family calendar for me.
But wait? Our IT dude was like, I think…I COULD probably open that. And then we got so excited that I peed in my pants and she peed in my pants too. He’s going to try because he’s a nice guy, but I know I shouldn’t get my hopes up. I mean it’s going to be sooo 2-bit spectacular. People will write songs about how awesome our calendar and schedules will be. Shut up.
Now you’re making me feel bad because I have a computer laying around that can actually open it.
How vintage of me.
that’s why everybody should storage old computers in the garage, just in case Annie wants to make a Adams Family Calendar. Actually the one in my garage is now being used by my grandma to play cards, but still opens floppy disks. It’s a winner
it’s been so long, in so many ways
haha at work we often receive floppy discs EVEN NOW from certain film labs and i don’t know what to do with them. after feeling guilty for a while, we have to throw them in the trash.
also i miss ZIP disks. i have a whole… “ZIP disk storage thing” of them that i cannot open. full of really old, really important stuff. i am sticking to spiral notebooks from here on out.
You seriously crack me up! If you open it and can make something, you should put up some pictures so we may all gaze upon the awesomeness.
I hope you’re not a belated victim of Y2K. I just don’t think I have it in me to witness another such disaster.
omg my old comp could do it. i have it in my garage. and have no fear, even though i’m young, i remember in 5th grade i was using floppy disks!
I think that yell on “Hollywood Freaks” is “He my dogggg!”
My college students make me feel a little closer to death every day.
Most any copy or reprographics shop can read most any media. Try the Kinkos or mom&pop copy shop first — reprographics are old-fashioned; i.e. scared to go off-menu. Apple doesn’t even recognize the word.