wait a minute, what are these things?
- August 3rd, 2015
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So Paul’s going through Fallout 3 again, and just found a paperweight in a box, and I kind of laughed because ‘hey, here’s something you can carry just to take away from your carrying capacity!’ and so on. But then I realised…
…we all know what a paperweight is. But I’ve never used a paperweight as a paperweight. In fact, has anyone here ever used a paperweight as a paperweight?
Hell, has I know anyone ever used a paperweight as office equipment at all?
hmmmmmmmmmm
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Yes, I have used paper weights to actually keep piles of paper in place on my desk. I have also used lots of things that aren’t specifically paperweights, usually because I have many piles of papers…
I’ve never used one myself, but two jobs ago, I distributed some in an office building. This building had an ancient 1930s attic-fan system, and when the windows were open, stuff got blown around. As I recall, these were calendars that looked like giant D12s.
Scott: Yeah, I kind of suspected that back in the days of mountains of paper on desks all the time and big overhead ceiling fans and open windows that they were actually used. But apparently there are still use cases.
I still think they’re mostly just decorative objects, but I can see the opposite.
I’ve seen those calendars! I thought they were just interesting calendars rather than paperweights.