Geek TGI Friday's Flair
TGI Friday's walls are littered with "vintage" wall decor. Red Lobster has old lobster traps and fish photos all over their walls. Then it hit me: geek hangouts need their own brand of wall flair. Why not outdated tech books?
I've got a ton of books on technologies that aren't in widespread use any more. I'd donate them but even Goodwill doesn't want stuff like that. When you think about it it makes sense. So where do they go? The landfill? I like to pretend I'm much more environmentally friendly than that.
Some hangout for geeks needs to step up and offer a free appetizer or something for anyone that brings in a tech book that was published before, say, 2000? That seems like a reasonable cutoff. Then all the geeky people can laugh at the titles lining the shelves above their tables. "PowerBuilder? Oh, shit! I wrote something in that once!" (Apologies to Sybase, but you really need to give up on that shit.)
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