There's an episode called "Digital Estate Planning" where his dad mocks him for his lack of business acumen: "In 1980, you said that video games, not moist towelettes, were the business of the future. Today, moist towelettes are stocked in every supermarket, while arcade after arcade closes."
ThinkingGuy 3 days ago [-]
This reminds me something my the teacher of my university public speaking class told us (in the context of doing research): No matter how trivial, esoteric or obscure the topic, there is someone on earth who has devoted their entire career to studying it.
rkozik1989 3 days ago [-]
Autism never sleeps.
kotaKat 2 days ago [-]
"If you think autistic people can't be funny you've probably never seen one being hyperfixated on committing to the bit, no matter the cost."
[oof, I also feel this in my approach to projects.]
PyWoody 3 days ago [-]
Wow, almost unchanged from 2005[0]. Impressive. I miss the weird web.
EDIT: Here's an Atlas Obscura article about the museum itself[1].
> Watch out, these are big files (for 1990's technology). About 1.6 megs each.
ivan888 3 days ago [-]
I find myself holding onto and preserving general ephemera and just happened to scan a moist towelette package over the weekend.
My collection mostly consists of business cards and dry cleaning type carbon copy receipts. I need to better catalogue these and share online.
A few business cards: https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/
(Given that he audited classes for years, this very much strikes me as a class project based on his interests...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Community_characters#P...
[oof, I also feel this in my approach to projects.]
EDIT: Here's an Atlas Obscura article about the museum itself[1].
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20050613084710/https://moisttowe...
[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moist-towelette-museum
And another of beer coasters from the bars around Barcelona: https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/posavasos
See also, matchbook and matchbox museum:
https://matchesmuseum.com/en/home/