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This reminded me of a friend who has a very serious form of cancer. His monitor died, so I decided to give him one as a gift, since he spends all his time at home doing nothing. I went with my girlfriend to deliver it and I reminded he used to tape and catalog F1 races and other stuff. I asked if he was watching one of these types and he proceeded to open a large cabinet and give us a tour of his meticulously catalog…
so you found a gold mine?
Probably an age-old theme, but as a guy now in my 40s, it's humbling and a little sad to see how many things that were so vital, alive, and relevant in my childhood (and past eras) that are now dead and almost gone from the collective memory. As the Buddha said, all is impermanent.
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.” — Conan O'Brien
vhs to dvd drives are fun https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313...
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I can't tell if this is satire or not. Have you considered storing it on the blockchain instead, so this way it is immutable and permanent? /s
I don't know why people are worried about storage. You can just store it on the cloud.
I suspect they might someday be valuable :-)
It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…
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yeah, I doubt you'll scan all that into your AI. Prove me wrong.
That's been my strategy with photos for the last couple of decades. I don't bother organizing them, figuring ML/image classification will do the trick eventually. I'll probably never bother, but it has saved me the time of organizing it. (Apple does let me search based on its object classification, and I have searched for tag that came on my apple tree based on a word that appears on it, so I guess that strategy has…
Probably an age-old theme, but as a guy now in my 40s, it's humbling and a little sad to see how many things that were so vital, alive, and relevant in my childhood (and past eras) that are now dead and almost gone from the collective memory. As the Buddha said, all is impermanent.
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.” — Conan O'Brien