Damn you digital content!

i spent all this time compiling a spreadsheet and *someone* tried to migrate and it totally messed with all the data and ruined it. i almost got yelled at until *someone* realized that it had nothing to do with my ineptitude.

damn you technology!

on a brighter note, i had a great day o' referencing. no one can stump me!

Someone please take my credit card

I've been doing something really terrible today that I have one and one way only of rationalizing.

I've spent the morning at work finding rare photo types on E-Bay and bidding on them. Its bad. Really bad.

There is one silver lining. Its the most interested I've been in a particular type of archives since school began. So maybe thats the kind of thing I should look for when I get back on the application horse. Which I can pretty much guarantee will not be any time soon. But still. Its nice to find something specific that I really dig.

It does bother me that some people selling these things have no idea what they're selling and label them as three completely different types. I hate to break it to you, but one picture is not a daguerreotype, ambrotype AND tintype. I am officially logging out for the day. I want to have some beer money for the summer and if I keep going....

Really?!?!?!?!

"Nitrate is turning out to be a historically durable medium that, if stored properly, rivals paper -- and well-made paper -- as a storage medium for image and sound,"

so says the motion-picture curator at the Eastman in this article.

It then goes on to explain some of the best features about nitrate films, like its uncanny ability to burst into flames, burning at the rate of 16,000-17,000 per SECOND.

"It has that disturbing quality of producing its own oxygen, so you can't put it out with water."

Sounds totally durable to me....

ooooo pretty colors!!!

Why is it always that something looks so interesting and cool the first time you see it, but a couple of months down the road if you have to read and article on it you want to gouge out your eyes?

I'm writing a paper on theft and repatriation of cultural objects. Its an incredibly interesting and controversial topic and I'm fascinated by the reasoning and rationalization that people and institutions use to justify their actions regarding it.

I know that by the time I turn in the paper I will think it is the most tedious subject I've ever come across. I hate that.

I also have issues spelling repatriation. It doesn't roll off the fingers so smoothly.

Rules

So the other day I was going through some invitations and found one sent to AW inviting him to join a commune. The invitation listed several rules that must be followed including (and I quote):

1. no drugs
2. no alcohol
3. no balling chicks under 18 years old.

now far be it from me to criticize, but whats the point of having a commune with rules like that?!?!