My Warehouse 13 Moment

In Artie’s office (or hub is a nice term, but I know Torchwood likes to use it) he’s got a ton of steampunk stuff, along with a lot of wood furniture; one of the many pieces are several card catalogues.

     Now card catalogues are big, heavy, and almost always made of wood. When the my local library was converting to computers as a kid (they were using DOS) eventually everything was put on the computers (I’m glad I didn’t have to type all of that stuff in, remember there weren’t any scanners, or if they were a small public library certainly couldn’t afford them), and what was left behind was hug massive card catalogues.

     I remember at first they tried to sell them… that didn’t work. The last few weeks that I saw them, they had signs for free on them. The problem wasn’t that someone wanted them; it was more of how to transport them. They were so heavy you’d need a ton of guys just to lift a small section… big moving trucks were mandatory.

     But I think now that there might be some hype about them (TV shows can create surges in particular fields; like there’s about 50 Forensic Anthropologists in North America; because of “Bones” expect that number to rise fast and quickly) (so for Warehouse 13 it’s probably safe to expect a huge surge of applicants for the Secret Service, which only deals with security for the president and counterfeiting) (Also counterfeiting is the only crime mentioned in the constitution other than treason), so I’m expecting that one day when I have room for a huge card catalogue, that I’d most likely have to build my own since they are either hard to find since they aren’t making new ones (remember they’re made of expensive wood, these days they would be made of plastic or metal), and the popularity of the show will cause the few easy to find ones to be quickly snatched up.