My buddy once tried to argue that the drum machine on "I Ran" was genius and I nearly choked on my beer.

That junk drawer on fire comment is brutal but so accurate, I still laugh thinking about my old setup. On the project plus action idea, I took it a step further and color coded folders for active vs completed projects so I don't accidentally grab old links.

Flatbed scanners from that era really weren't made for that fine detail work. I had a CanoScan 8800F that I kept for years just because it was there, even though every 35mm scan came out looking like it had a faint layer of Vaseline on it. Finally swapped to a little Pacific Image PrimeFilm XA and my old Kodachrome slides from the 90s looked like different film stock entirely. The colors popped and those little grain specks actually looked like grain instead of muddy noise. Your mileage may vary but those dedicated scanners make a huge difference on stuff smaller than 6x9.

Ngl pat360, 2005-era Myspace pages sometimes still have full demo streams up.

Switched to mesh tape for wide gaps and never looked back.