This weekend I am preparing to move my office at NYU. The new office has a layout identical to that of my current office, so ideally I would exactly replicate the setup I currently have.
Unfortunately, the real world does not work that way. I have to take things off of shelves, put them in boxes, label everything, and get ready to reassemble it all after the move.
This really is a case where the digital has certain advantages over the physical. Semantically what I am doing is precisely a cut / paste operation. It would be so much easier to do that with bits rather than with atoms!