Episode 1 Extras: Things Attached with Paperclips

Aug 29, 2022

If Once Upon a Checklist were a thing printed on paper, there’d be all kinds of notes written in the margins. There’d be photos and drawings and the occasional feather paper-clipped on. You’d have to move it from the bookshelf to your desk carefully, so that nothing slid out and flip-fluttered away into a corner.

Here are some of those things from the first episode:

1. Umberto Eco on the Platypus.

I was very tempted to use this second quote, about why we like to make lists, in the end of the podcast but eventually decided it was a bit much (it’s true, though, I think):

”We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.” - Umberto Eco

2. Don Roberson’s Excellent Website

There was a time when lots of people built and maintained their own websites. Lots of them looked a lot like this and were very delightful. Take a little look what the web was meant to be before V.C. totally destroyed it all: http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/index.html