A paper on the subject: http://jem.rupress.org/content/early/2018/03/05/jem.20171608
Tattoo You: Immune System Cells Help Keep Ink in Its Place
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Someone should develop the skin-equivalent of e-paper :)
It exists already! (kind of... the ink is implanted but the active part is a gadget) https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/moodinq-tattoo.shtml
That product is actually an April Fool's prank, as shown by the little winky face box at the very bottom of the page. I was fooled for quite a while as well.
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#23I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I’ve always wanted a tattoo, still do, but nothing has ever seemed right for this reason—what will stand the test of time? What won’t I want to remove from my skin?
Some day I may do something mathematical like a visual proof of a theorem I care about, or some symbol meaningful to me. Or maybe just something like this on my wrist:
Blood type: A+
Allergies: Penicillin, Eggs
If Dead: CryopreserveRe: Tattoo You: Immune System Cells Help Keep Ink in Its Place
#24I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
There's a fallacy of composition lurking somewhere around here...
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#25I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I have a friend who got an entire sleave of an MC Escher piece. I asked him what it meant and he said: “I dunno but it looks cool right?”. I think that’s the way to go if you don’t want to regret it later. Just get nice looking art that has stood the test of time. Up the irons.
That's pretty much my philosophy, I have 2 full sleeves and a few other pieces. Both of the sleeves were not much more instructions to the artists (both close friends) than "I am a fan of X style or Y artist, a sleeve in that style would be neat". Then you go from there (make sure you have lots and lots of money!).
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#26I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I think people overthink tattoos. I believe it's perfectly fine to get tattoos of things that have always meant something to you, meant something for you for a short period, or don't mean anything to you at all. I think people get stuck thinking it has to be super personal and define who you are.
Scott Campbell equates his body to looking like a truck stop bathroom stall. He has poorly done tattoos, great tattoos, tattoos that have no meaning, tattoos that have great meaning, but no tattoo he regrets.
These tattoos help remind him of where he has been and where he wants to go.
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#27I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
As I understand this, the attraction is not "I will want this forever" (you won't) but "I will want to remember this forever" - like embarrassing photos of your childhood, it physicalises your life log.
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#28I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I think people overthink tattoos. I believe it's perfectly fine to get tattoos of things that have always meant something to you, meant something for you for a short period, or don't mean anything to you at all. I think people get stuck thinking it has to be super personal and define who you are. Scott Campbell equates his body to looking like a truck stop bathroom stall. He has poorly done tattoos, great tattoos, ta…
When I was in my late teens (in the latter half of the 1990s) I read a lot of Clifford Pickover’s scientific/mathematical books. There I came across my first mention of lambda calculus, exemplified by a very imposing diagram taken from To Dissect a Mockingbird by David Keenan. Years later I started to think seriously about having a tattoo of one. I thought about that for about seven years, and now I have a rendition of Turing's Theta Combinator (a fixed-point combinator much akin to the Y Combinator after which Hacker News’ mother organisation is named).
I've had it now for a few months. I’m just a bit embarrassed by owning up to having had myself tattooed to my very closest family members. My sister and my girlfriend both sport multiple tattoos, but somehow mentioning it to my father or anybody more senior unsettles me.
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#29I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I’ve always wanted a tattoo, still do, but nothing has ever seemed right for this reason—what will stand the test of time? What won’t I want to remove from my skin? Some day I may do something mathematical like a visual proof of a theorem I care about, or some symbol meaningful to me. Or maybe just something like this on my wrist: Blood type: A+ Allergies: Penicillin, Eggs If Dead: Cryopreserve
I have Turing’s Theta Combinator: http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/Graphical_lambda26.gif