An Ode to Dental Floss.

[swestrup]

I finished the last of a large spool of dental floss last night, and as I was standing at the sink, staring at the old spool, it occurred to me that I have had that spool of floss longer than I've had most of my friends. I already owned that floss when I bought this house roughly 15 years ago. It has not only cleaned my teeth, but has served as an inspiration. It was the basis for a mono-filiment dispenser in a cyber-punk game I ran 10 years ago (with hilarious results). I was inspired because it seemed to have an endless supply and I worked out that were it mono-filiment the spool could hold roughly a light-years length of the stuff, rather than the measly 300 yards it says on the box.

And now its all gone. Truly is it the end of an era.