Tomorrow we’re catering in a few hundred dry wings so we can do the season 19 hot ones challenge as a team building. The caterers are also bringing a shit ton of milk and ice cream. Work doesn’t suck.
Who invited the escorts? That's a page out of a long retired work culture playbook. That shit get you unemployed in a hurry these days.
Sometimes they just kinda show up I think. I was at a convention years ago and there were a couple really nice looking ladies working the lobby. I had a blast watching guys try their best, and then walk away dejected. I almost wanted to go over and find out at what point guys were figuring out what they were, but figured with my luck that'd be when the police showed up. Or I could afford them.
Off your focus a little but I read an article years ago about the problem of storage for digital photos because storage mediums keep changing. Floppy disks to CDs to thumb drives etc. The ability to retrieve photos from these older mediums gets harder because they become obsolete and new computers don’t have ports for them. Cloud storage resolves this significantly though if you forget where you have things stored or forget to pay your subscription you may have a problem. The article stated at the end that printed copies still are the best long term solution for precious photos. Following their advice I got some photo booklets made for my kids of their college years, their graduations, and their sports photos so they’d have them way, way down the road. For a very reasonable price you can get hardbound books with the photos printed on the paper.
I love printed photos. I print them and hang them on my walls, we regularly print up custom calendars for family members... I'd like to create some books at some point, just haven't had the energy to do so. But I agree - printed copies are still a great way to store photos. That said, printed photos have their own problems. My in-laws had a flood in their basement and lost decades worth of photos because, obviously, there is no backup for them. Plus the discoverability and share-ability of them is lower so... tradeoffs.
my wife prints a photo book of us and the kids and our "adventures" once a year. I don't think we lead very interesting lives enough to have that many fucking pictures, but apparently she does. Sounds like it would be an easy enough solution though.
I may have lost a box of photos of my kids over the years due to a flooded basement form a broken pipe so the concern is legitimate. On my list was scanning the pictures so I could share them with my kids but that may not be an option anymore. I have to see what the contractor recovered when the work on the house is complete. I used Snapfish for printing the photo books and the process is pretty easy. There are a few photos I’ve taken that I think are pretty good that I want to print and hang, that’s on my list too.
My (now) wife and I got together 14+ years ago. she's getting her MSN in Nursing, so we needed my health insurance, hence the wedding. We are HABITUALLY BAD at taking photos. We tried to put photos of us at every table and I bet we "Maybe" had 50 over the years. It's just not in us to pull out a phone and document moments like that. I hope I don't regret it, but who's to say...
Focus: I'm rewatching Jurassic Park because it's on HBO Max and it's interesting to note how "dinosaurs may have something in common with birds" was presented as a somewhat "out there" theory, and the conventional wisdom was the whole terrible lizard thing. These days we're like "forget birds evolving from dinosaurs, birds are dinosaurs. We've got the receipts and everything."
That part where Grant pretends to mutilate a child with a raptor claw is my favorite. Focus: The Internet in general. It used to be a place where you could actually connect with people. Dead Internet theory is real and I won't be convinced otherwise (this place notwithstanding).
Do ya'll remember back when people would send emails to each other for personal correspondence? Now, everyone uses Facebok and other social media.
I used to send my girlfriend actual letters when we were on vacation. Like, stamps and everything. Now my wife and I don’t even take enough photos to document our lives in any meaningful way for the future.
Because googling "Dead Internet Theory" led to porn, what is your take on that, Juicy? I sent my niece a post card from New Mexico. She didn't understand why I didn't text her. Which is...fair, but me telling her "Listen, you lil bitch, now you know how to spell Albequerque" wasn't exactly clarifying things either.
In all seriousness I only think its partially true. The theory was an online urban legend some years back. It basically suggests that a large percentage of people on the internet engaging with each other are actually bots. It's fairly silly, but with over 40% of Twitter users purportedly being bots (as an example), there is a kernel of truth to it. Also, website aggregators (Digg, Reddit, etc.) swallowing up and centralizing traffic definitely changed the landscape quite a bit in the late '00s.