Sunday, April 15, 2007

Cardboard

After moving in, one room of my apartment was full to the ceiling with suddenly useless cardboard boxes. I posted an ad on Craigslist, offering up free moving boxes to whoever wanted to take them off my hands. The first response was in my inbox exactly 13 minutes after the posting went online.

Thirteen minutes! That's less than 800 seconds! A few millimeters on your sundial!

Tragic as it is, I'm sure that somewhere, sometime, there has been a stabbing victim who has bled for more than 13 minutes while waiting for his 9-1-1 call to produce results. But I live in San Francisco, and it takes just about that long for somebody to ask if they can pick up my trash.

Nice list, Craig. Nice list.

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