For 1999, these are remarkably clear and high definition photos. This person must have had one of those big digital cameras with a floppy disc in the side - or similar - which wouldn't have been all that convenient. Interesting that they were motivated enough to do this.
Doors I touched today (1999)
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#53It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.
I firmly believe the number of upper respiratory infections I have each year is directly proportional to the number of doors I have to touch throughout the day. Once worked for a well-known fruit company with a reputation for paranoia and secrecy, and because of that secrecy, everything was behind locked doors. Therefore, I constantly had to handle doors throughout the day to do anything at work. I'm pretty sure duri…
Upper respiratory infections don't seem to transmit by contact that much. They do, but not as much as through the air. Stomach diseases are more likely to be transmitted this way.
But there may be some correlation. Closed doors possibly means poor ventilation. Also, more doors to touch can mean being more active and in contact with more people.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazingly brass has antimicrobial properties.
So does silver, to the point it’s used in advanced wound dressing. They aren’t cheap though - ask my insurance company! There isn’t that much silver in them, but a 2x2” square is about $4 or so, compared to a few cents for a plain gauze pad.
These properties also cause some people to attempt injecting or swallowing colloidal silver as a purported panacea, sometimes with unintended results:
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#55Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."
Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?
archive.org
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#56Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."
Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?
One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.
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#57Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."
Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?
Depends on how much you have to spend. A trust and lawyers and stuff could work well.
GitHub or something as a poor mans might work for some time.
Archive sites could be around.
Or start a religion.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
For public doors I use every part of the body except my hands to open and close them.
Not a comment to you, personally, but I saw someone the other day struggling to follow this philosophy. She struggled to open the door to a cafe for what felt like a whole minute because she refused to touch the handle with her hands. All I could think was "if only there was some sort of technology that would leverage our biology to make opening doors easy." (For the record, I was not close enough nor in a position t…
Some bathrooms have a toekick thing you can use to push the door open, and it extends so you can pull it open with your feet.
But as more and more places install the handicap door openers, the more you can open the door just by bouncing off the very large button.
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#59For 1999, these are remarkably clear and high definition photos. This person must have had one of those big digital cameras with a floppy disc in the side - or similar - which wouldn't have been all that convenient. Interesting that they were motivated enough to do this.
Probably compact flash. All the cool cameras used it back then iirc.
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#60For 1999, these are remarkably clear and high definition photos. This person must have had one of those big digital cameras with a floppy disc in the side - or similar - which wouldn't have been all that convenient. Interesting that they were motivated enough to do this.
Probably compact flash. All the cool cameras used it back then iirc.
Fair enough. In the late 90's we had one of the Sony Mavicas, and at the time I wasn't involved enough in photography to really know of much else on the market. Thinking about it now though, Compact Flash had been around since the early 90's right?