I remember vaguely what the top of my desk looks like. I see a square inch of it now and then.
Nowhere is the concept of entropy demonstrated so clearly as on my desktop. It is truly a system that tends towards disorder. I have piles of memos, letters, contracts, license agreements, articles, reprints, resumes, magazines, and of course toys at least an inch thick on every exposed horizontal surface of my office.
About once a month I decide that I am going to weed through all of the old stuff, toss it, and at least make neater piles of what remains. This ordered state is very unstable - it begins to decay within roughly a microsecond. Within a minute, in apparent defiance of the principle of conservation of energy, there is actually more stuff than there was when I started.
Maybe I should start piling coins on my desk. At least that way I'd be making a profit.
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