With the move to the new building, the CUCL will probably (finally) get to have their very own coffee pot within their department. I for one will be sorry to see the coffee pot go. And I'll admit, that part was a little pathetic. Was I, after watching the coffee pot for a while, happy to realize there were people all over the world who were interested in what you could do with these machines, and didn't care whether the end result was "important" or not? Absolutely!ĭid I then spend too much time visiting the Web-enabled refrigerator, the site that let you display messages on an LED board, the Abductalizer, and Web cams in a wide variety of uninteresting places? Well.yes. Did I, in 1994 or 95, find myself really struck by the fact that a cheap little Mac was showing me (almost) real-time images from England? Yes, I did. Would I sit at my desk today, staring at a picture of a coffee pot? No. Wow, a picture of a coffee machine! Err, and? Who the hell cares? Would anyone sit and watch a CCTV picture of a coffee machine? Its not cool, its boring and more than a little bit sad.
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