Tattoo You: Immune System Cells Help Keep Ink in Its Place

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 3:38 PM UTC

evincarofautumn wrote: post #23

Jaruzel wrote: post #2

I 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

Post by 2474 » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

qubex wrote: post #28

2474 wrote: post #26

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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…

Post by failrate » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

mkj wrote: post #19

I guess the same research could help design tattoo inks that don't blur as much as they age. Let the new macrophages keep the pigment more stationary somehow.

Post by teeray » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

evincarofautumn wrote: post #23

Jaruzel wrote: post #2

I 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

Post by qubex » Fri, Mar 09, 2018, 6:17 PM UTC

qubex wrote: post #29

evincarofautumn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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