Humans are packrats. I’m not kidding. I just finished browsing through the files on a CD-ROM disk called ‘sources and downloads from laptop’. As the name reveals, it’s a disk full of older sources from my old laptop. I was actually looking for a piece of Python code, a framework for sifting through newsgroups. I didn’t find the software, but I ended up reading up older code, examining zip files and trying to decipher the functionality of executables with weird names.
Take for example all the source files: they have been divided over three zipfiles with sizes varying from 20 MB to 60 MB. There’s ‘ProcNavigator’, ‘Hearts (is not a game)’ and other funny stuff worth mentioning but not right now. Later maybe: I need to think about why humans are such a packrats.