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Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Re: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Post by S_A_P »

krautsourced wrote: post #33
mistermann wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. One thing that's always jumped out at me over the years, for no particular reason, is the sometimes horrendous handwriting (and sometimes even spelling) of extremely skilled engineers. Sometimes their writing looks like they are holding the pencil vertically in their hand with 4 fingers wrapped around it.

It's because as a programmer you barely do write anything by hand any more these days. I notice it myself, I'm now faster at typing than (hand)writing, and I wrote shitloads during my times at the uni.

Too true! If I have to write anything in cursive other than my signature(which has now become a symbol more than my name in cursive) I am completely flummoxed as to how to do it.

Re: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Post by rquantz »

INTPenis wrote: post #53
tstev wrote: post #14

My guess is that it is collection of letters by people about the historic value of the day. It must be something boring like that otherwise he would have kept it for himself.

Maybe Johan was a huge troll and it's nothing but turn of the century pornography.

It's actually an old, yellowed photograph of Rick Astley.

Re: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Post by draggnar »

harrylove wrote: post #29
unreal37 wrote: post #19

I wonder what they would do if inside there was another package that said "don't open until 2112"...

And then inside that is a Rush album on a compact phonograph record with the inscription, "From the Great Library at Temples of Syrinx. Please destroy at your convenience. Do not play. - Best Regards, The Priests."

but then you play it anyway, and it is actually Rick Astley at his finest.

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Post by huxley »

rsaarelm wrote: post #25
jaysonelliot wrote: post #3

Apropos of nothing, looking at the inscription on the outside of the package, I'm struck by how beautiful handwriting was in 1912. I'd like to get that back somehow.

Nice calligraphy, sure, but hopefully not cursive. Careless cursive handwriting ends up illegible much, much faster than print handwriting, and relies way too much on context to let you figure out what individual words are for my liking. I've had to ask people who wrote cursive notes with just a couple of words instead of a full sentence what they actually wrote, since I couldn't make out the word without the priming…

My father used to do a lot of research using microfilmed 17th-19th century documents.

Cursive handwriting (combined with often poor microfilm or fiche photography) was an occupational hazard, he got fairly good at interpreting some documents but it might take him the better part of an afternoon to transcribe 4 or 5 pages of journal entries from some documents.

Re: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Post by pimentel »

Swizec wrote: post #50
rhdoenges wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't be a pedant. It's distracting from the actual discussion.

How's this for the actual discussion: There have been cases of people dying because the pharmacist misread the doctor's scribbles and gave them the wrong prescription.

We have medical students "training" their fast and ugly writing, right from the beginning of college. It's all about the doctor's status. The bad handwriting is one medal.

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Post by huxley »

Tichy wrote: post #39
molmalo wrote: post #23

Imagine if it was a 100-years old, still functioning and yet to be released smartphone, with an HD video of the 1912 celebration. :) That would be so cool... Like in that movie, "Das Jesus Video". Anyway, as others said, it probably contains letters from people of that time.

It would be cool if it was a smartphone that looked exactly like an iPhone. Destroy those lawsuits with a bang.

There's a chance that time machines would pretty much destroy prior-art as a defence in patent lawsuits.

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Post by douglasfir »

draggnar wrote: post #74
harrylove wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then inside that is a Rush album on a compact phonograph record with the inscription, "From the Great Library at Temples of Syrinx. Please destroy at your convenience. Do not play. - Best Regards, The Priests."

but then you play it anyway, and it is actually Rick Astley at his finest.

Would you please go back to Reddit?

Re: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Post by antidoh »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #3

Apropos of nothing, looking at the inscription on the outside of the package, I'm struck by how beautiful handwriting was in 1912. I'd like to get that back somehow.

Write Now. It works. I can write again.

http://www.handwritingsuccess.com/write-now.php

Re: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

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Post by slurgfest »

kamaal wrote: post #42
Graham24 wrote: post #40

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yeah, i got the same, the school went on and on about my handwriting and spent far too long trying to improve it, wasting my time and theres. Not exactly an issue as I sit here and type this is it? Mind you, the one thing i did do when i got a chance, was to do a typing course meant for secretarys as I knew i'd have to type.

The thing is people attach too much artistic value to hand writing. Think of it more like painting and drawing. What makes it worse is the visual appeal and they way it can be preserved over the years.

Your example showed it isn't artistic value so much as social class.
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