Ok, I fixed the link thingy, I didn't know I had to adjust the template. The age photographs link should work on the previous post. Anyways, this time I have a link to Harriet the Tortoise. She was supposedly captured by Charles Darwin, on the Galapagos islands! Charles Darwin!? And she's still alive? Pretty amazing. I find this stuff while browsing around on sites like boingboing.net, coast to coast, or http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html.

I was wondering if my use of the word archaic was appropriate. I think in this stage of rapid technological advancement, things become archaic quite rapidly- kind of like the old atari or commodore 64, or apple II. Which still function, and which are an icon to 'a time past' for people who used them.

ar·cha·ic (är-kā'ĭk) also ar·cha·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) From Answers.com
adj.
also Archaic Of, relating to, or characteristic of a much earlier, often more primitive period, especially one that develops into a classical stage of civilization: an archaic bronze statuette; Archaic Greece.
No longer current or applicable; antiquated: archaic laws. See synonyms at old.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period.

[Greek arkhaikos, old-fashioned, from arkhaios, ancient, from arkhē, beginning, from arkhein, to begin.]

There's a "popular" art form coming out where the subject is mario from the first nintendo system. One example was a mario made out of rubiks cubes rotated and stacked so the individual squares were treated as pixels.
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Yesterday we bought a couch, microwave, refridgerator, fan, rugs and shelves from someone who is moving out of Brevig. Our little house is getting crowded. But we keep stuff organized and put away, so it's livable. I still lose stuff from time to time.