his archive materials: "from a distance look like flies" dept

ppl who have been to my house know it is 1xrabbit warren of STUFF, sorted only in the sense of "sort of sorted"

i. i almost never throw things out*
ii. i gather more stuff all the time -- not in a "collectory" way, all of one type well kept and logged and known, but EXACTLY the opposite
iii. viz i encourage random acquisition, as in "this arrived i have no idea how it relates to anything i have or want i will keep it", and project-related acquisition, viz if i have half (haha or actually NOWHERE NEAR THAT BIG A FRACTION) an idea to write something on "KING KONG: an HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM traced via DINOSAURs IN POPULAR FICTION" (which in fact i DO) then step one towards "finishing" said item is gathering stuff which EVEN SLIGHTLY adjuncts to it
iv. i have spent years and effort trying to organise all this STUFF in ways that all surfaces present themselves, bcz i know well that out of sight is out of memory, and if a "project pile" is BEHIND or UNDER another one, i will simply never get to it
v. so i just -- via hackney freecycle -- got some nice pine shelves for all my singles (only three shelves, and what i have and don't is very random, some bcz i like it, a lot bcz i never yet listened)... and spoent a lot of yesterday just ramming them on no longer in any order, and my first thought was (as always) CULL with a view to COMMENTARY
vi. because i am probably past mathematical middle age and this archive ain' goin nowhere if it's not into writing somewhere
vii. so yes anyway i has to go into werk now to use the printer as the "new" one i just got via hackney frrecycle needs a special adapter to work on my computer bah pah


*(for years the poster child of this was a note i used ONCE at college, to blutak onto my door, which sed "back in a minute" -- i was certainly still coming across this in the mid-90s, in piles of not-sure-how-to-sort "archive material", and not throwing it away on the principle that it was "funnier" to keep it) (this post may be the realisation of this principle!) (tho i haven't seen the note recently and MAY ACTUALLY HAVE CHUCKED IT in the great 12 bin-bags purge of 97) (plz to note how few = "great")

AVATAR QUIZ (=my very first meme) (<---he claimed, getting very previous)

i will post my avatars one by one in comments, and you answer the following:

i. WHAT IS IT ACTUALLY? (you the reader identify)
i. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME? (you the reader guess)
ii. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU? (you the reader pronounce)

UPDATE: lj thread roll-up does not mean these are any less fun and informative! it just means you are not spoilered by the replies of others hurrah! (omg i have finally "discovered" an actual positive useful rationale for lj thread roll-up!!