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I spent yesterday evening watching documentaries on Duran Duran and Rush. Consequently, today's playlist is brought to me by nostalgia.

#duran duran #rush #the husbad was on a yes kick yesterday as well #i can still sing all those rush lyrics #but im not surprised i can still sing all the duran bc i never stopped #also reinforced my idea that stray kids and duran duran okay the same role for teens/early twenties #okay =play damn app edit problem

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San Antonio and Austin, Texas, February 2024: Food, drink, and museums.

Blanton Museum of Art

Dia De Los Muertos Museum

Black's BBQ

Via 313 (Detroit) Pizza

Tlahco Mexican Kitchen

Weathered Souls

Busted Sandal

Dutch Brothers

Big Red

#san antonio #austin #still life with fennec #still life with rose #still life with cupcake

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Random San Antonio and Austin (barely)

#san antonio #still life with cupcake #austin

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Photo dump, Food & Drink, Winter 2024

Our Mom Eugenia

Ruthie's All Day

Hammerdown

B-Side

Neuhaus Chocolates

Ocelot Brewing

McMillan's Whiskey Room

Nighthawks Pizza

Songbird

Bonus: K-Wave Coke.

#still life with fennec #still life with rose #still life with cupcake

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#road trip takes days in North America not hours #and in our house usually means going from one coast to the other #and involves staying in multiple hotels along the way to the destination

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Photo dump, kitties

#just cat things #still life with cupcake

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Photo dump, Winter commutes 2024

#stilllifewithcupcake #commuting #metroghosts

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I had one of those days that makes me realize how much of my work experience existed before my current staff entered the workforce.

The employee who is 25 years younger than myself asked a simple question today - one that I'm sure she didn't realize would make me laugh.

She was answering a publisher inquiry about photographs that were sent for publication. The publisher wrote back to say that the author of the book had sent low resolution images and to please send high resolution versions.

My employee was desperately trying to find the images. We manage a repository of 4 million+ digital media files, and a sister unit manages a repository of at least that amount, plus several million undigitized film negatives/positives, but she could only find the low resolution images in either repository. So she asked for assistance.

I took one look at the year the images were taken and started giggling.

I had to explain to her that these photos were taken by a digital camera. In 2001.

I had been working here for 11 years when these photographs were taken. I remember them, I remember the event, I remember that our place of business was still officially using film because it would take several more years for digital cameras to be of a sufficient quality to match film quality (I believe we finally switched over to fully digital around 2005/6). But these photographs were digital only because event photography was usually taken for the business records and therefore did not have to be preservation quality (not that we called it that back then, but you get the point).

Hell, even most of the photographers that captured the events of September 11, 2001 were still using film. Film was the standard medium back then.

So I informed her that this "low resolution" was the maximum the camera could output, and what the book publisher has IS the highest quality that ever existed. Thanks to our metadata, we know it was taken by a Fujifilm digital camera with a whopping 3.1 megapixel chip.

Then I did the math. This employee was...six...when these photographs were taken. She wouldn't have ever experienced a world without the Internet, much less digital cameras, computers (and 5-1/4 inch floppy discs! cartridges! zip disks!), and maybe even cell phones. I doubt she had a walkman and probably not even a discman, given that the iPod debuted in 2001, and other digital music players were already on the market.

I do think it's funny, though, that I watched this whole rise and fall of analog and digital media consumer hardware happen, and so my understanding of the technical capabilities of the era are so internalized that I expect everyone to make the same inferences. Gotta check my assumptions. :)

And yes, I am old.

#way to make me feel old! #digital media history #digital preservation #media preservation #i can't get over how fast media technology has changed tbh #it's almost mind boggling

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I don't need these Rick Owens x Dr. Martens, no I do not. Nope. Don't need. I have enough Docs. I have enough black Docs.

*heads to amazon to find oversized boot laces instead

#rick owens x dr. martens #k-pop-esque #thankfully my size in the low boot is already sold out #but those high boots...

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HAN 🌹 5-STAR DOME TOUR VCR

#stray kids #han

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#I'm dying

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#just cat things #queue it up

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req'd by @omicronus-1326

tag your blorbo folks

text: All the cunning of a sack of potting soil.

#queue it up

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I’m crying like a baby

#queue it up

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Ok so first of all, yes please

But also the nugget at the bottom "We’re still going through Archive’s insane collection of in-store background music, the essential Attention Kmart Shoppers."

#queue it up #digital preservation