

We would constantly challenge each other in class (she once called me a misanthropist, I countered with "you reassure that choice"), but underneath that was mutual respect, if such a thing is possible.Īnyway², I have a storage box under my bed, and this crazy idea that maybe I can make everything I own (except maybe clothes) fit within. Looking at it now, what I wrote is so fucking cringeworthy I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Within the former group is a short story our Language teacher made us compose after we read Kafka's Metamorphosis, about what it would be like to undergo the titular process ourselves. I skimmed through my folders and only kept the most important notes, and of course, my doodles. Most of what's gone in the three bags thrown away so far is old schoolwork. I once spent almost an entire day grabbing all the compression programs I could find, and configuring shortcuts in DOSSHELL that would extract each type of archive.Īnyway, I also began doing a house cleanup two days ago, coincidentally. Some other "weird" formats include are ARJ, ARC, ARCE (yes, with an E), LHA and ZOO. It provided a better compression ratio back when every byte mattered. I was smarter at the age of 10 more than i am now.I remember WinAce. Needless to day, it all came true, I'm a failure.

one of the things I never thought I'd see was some personal notes containing my feelings, fears, and failures at the time about the future, how I would not want to wind up. Found many side projects in doc and ppt, school work. I have found all editions of penthouse and playboy games on one the CDs, very rare.

Archives were made with WinAce, a now defunct application and format but was very popular bac then, and even beat 7zip. Found many games, applications, articles. 5GB worrth of DOS games was considered HUUUUGE back then. I've been cleaning up my cd collection and copied most of them to my external hdds.
