Wednesday, February 28, 2007
 
When 101 Years Old You Reach, Look This Good You Will Not
Someone's attempt at planned obsolescence has gone horribly, horribly wrong:
    Six years before the RMS Titanic set sail on its doomed maiden voyage, a Great Lakes steamship was launched, and it's still in operation.

    Now called St. Marys     [sic] Challenger, it is the oldest ship still in service on the Great Lakes. This winter, the 101-year-old Challenger is docked in South Chicago while a maintenance crew from Milwaukee does minor repairs to get it ready for spring sailing.
No, wait; back in the old days, they built simple things that could run for a long time instead of complicated things that break right away. Because in the distant past, quality was a virtue more important than mere profit to companies and a feature more important than any bell or whistle to customers who had attention spans measured in generations instead of seasons.


- posted by Brian J. @ 5:46 AM
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