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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://toot.wales/users/aegir/statuses/110777886679977622">Aegir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (aegir@toot.wales)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 23:54:50 JST</a><a href="https://toot.wales/@aegir" title="aegir@toot.wales"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/90610-48-20240922173105.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Aegir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Aegir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈</a></section><article><p>Reminded of the “Kurt Vonnegut goes to buy an envelope” quote. One of the best expressions of the joys of careful and deliberate inefficiency I’ve read. </p><p>Posted as image because the alt text has a higher character limit than a toot so I can paste the whole text as actual text there. Weird huh.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1852724#notice-3632661">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-07-26T23:54:50+09:00" title="Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 23:54:50 JST">Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 23:54:50 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://toot.wales/@aegir/110777886679977622" rel="external" title="Sent from toot.wales via ActivityPub">toot.wales</a></span></span><a href="https://toot.wales/@aegir/110777886679977622">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1314366">Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is — we’re here on Earth to fart around.
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/110/777/886/234/640/041/original/d08b97afc21c7173.jpeg" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/110/777/886/234/640/041/original/d08b97afc21c7173.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Aegir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (aegir@toot.wales)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 23:54:50 JST Aegir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
Reminded of the “Kurt Vonnegut goes to buy an envelope” quote. One of the best expressions of the joys of careful and deliberate inefficiency I’ve read.
Posted as image because the alt text has a higher character limit than a toot so I can paste the whole text as actual text there. Weird huh.
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1. Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is — we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”
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