Ashes, Dust & Ephemera

There's a design company not far from my house. It's a kind of sleepy, well-tended place. I don't know who pays their bills nowadays; I think they used to do pretty well by annual reports for pharmaceutical companies. The other day I noticed a dumpster out back. Dumpsters always get my attention (a habit acquired back in art school). Maybe they were doing a remodel and it would be filled with demolition debris.
On closer inspection I saw that like so many people around here, the incessant rains had flooded their basement forcing them to toss out a small snapshot of the recent history of our beloved profession. Do you see yourself in any of these photos? The dumpster is filled with a jumble of old printers, a few G3 Macs, computer mice, dozens of sourcebooks, stacks of cd's and books with sleeves filled with application floppies. There were a few chairs and filing cabinets too. Actually, the filing cabinets were gone this morning. A metal filing cabinet that can dry out trumps a decade of obsolete (and expensive) Photoshop upgrades!