So I was at the doctor's and at the customary weigh-in they had me stand on an old-school scale, the kind with the sliding weights along a ruler-like bar, instead of the ususal scale with the digital readout.
"A triumph of the old technology over the new?" I inquired.
Indeed, yes, they said. Seems the digital scales weren't so accurate. Patients discovered they could weigh three pounds less by using the scale on the east side of the building insetad of the one on the west side. Or vice versa.
Anyway, after years of living with digital scales, the clinic found a little money in its budget and bought new old-fashioned scales.
Once again, John Henry beats the steam drill.

Now, if the public library would only junk those computerized catalogues that say your book is in when it's really at the library four towns over, and bring back the card catalogue.