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conulyNot much plot, lots of character development - just the way I like it!
Of course, it took me a while because I kept thinking of what crucial parts of our culture I'd regret not bringing with me in this scenario and also my chronic daydream of what I'd love to read if I could hop over to other universes on day trips. (Honestly, I'm so backlogged in THIS universe I don't know why I keep thinking about reading in other ones, but there you go.) Which got me wondering about the feasibility of putting my entire personal library on microfilm (microfiche?) in case I suddenly have to evacuate to a parallel universe or another planet or just another city and god forbid I wouldn't have it with me. Sure, I'd need a reader for maximum use, but the tech isn't that hard to obtain, and a magnifying glass would do in a pinch if I was desperate. (I would be.) There are no compatibility issues like with computers, and it lasts forever. Sure, people might think it odd that I showed up to my evacuation point or whatever with an already prepped bag of carefully stored microfiche, but they'd thank me later. Better to have it and not need it, right?
The real question is the feasibility of doing this at home. I may need to find a wealthy eccentric to do it for me, or at least fund it, an extreme prepper type, but, you know, "cultural" and "philanthropic". They'd probably want to save their home library first, though. God, so selfish!
(Now, how can I compatibility-proof store popular music and movies and tv shows? I guess sheet music and scripts will have to suffice.)
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In the Future, Everything Will Be Made of Chickpeas
The reason why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a common and terrible password
NYC mayor: Extend shoreline to protect city from storms
What's the Perfect Price for Public Transportation?
Overlooked No More: Isabella Goodwin, New York City’s First Female Police Detective
"I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague" (In the comments over at MeFi somebody linked to this twitter thread in which somebody recounts being told - by a man, natch - that women "don't really orgasm like that" and if she thought so, she was wrong. How he can be such an expert when surely he never gets to sleep with the same woman twice, I don't know.)
When Civility Is Used As A Cudgel Against People Of Color
California governor halts death penalty: 'I couldn't sleep'
The human cost of insulin in America (God, it's even worse than asthma inhalers, and that is saying a damn lot.)
Jewish Caricatures at Belgian Carnival Set Off Charges of Anti-Semitism (No, this is not PC going "too far" ffs.)
Of course, it took me a while because I kept thinking of what crucial parts of our culture I'd regret not bringing with me in this scenario and also my chronic daydream of what I'd love to read if I could hop over to other universes on day trips. (Honestly, I'm so backlogged in THIS universe I don't know why I keep thinking about reading in other ones, but there you go.) Which got me wondering about the feasibility of putting my entire personal library on microfilm (microfiche?) in case I suddenly have to evacuate to a parallel universe or another planet or just another city and god forbid I wouldn't have it with me. Sure, I'd need a reader for maximum use, but the tech isn't that hard to obtain, and a magnifying glass would do in a pinch if I was desperate. (I would be.) There are no compatibility issues like with computers, and it lasts forever. Sure, people might think it odd that I showed up to my evacuation point or whatever with an already prepped bag of carefully stored microfiche, but they'd thank me later. Better to have it and not need it, right?
The real question is the feasibility of doing this at home. I may need to find a wealthy eccentric to do it for me, or at least fund it, an extreme prepper type, but, you know, "cultural" and "philanthropic". They'd probably want to save their home library first, though. God, so selfish!
(Now, how can I compatibility-proof store popular music and movies and tv shows? I guess sheet music and scripts will have to suffice.)
In the Future, Everything Will Be Made of Chickpeas
The reason why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a common and terrible password
NYC mayor: Extend shoreline to protect city from storms
What's the Perfect Price for Public Transportation?
Overlooked No More: Isabella Goodwin, New York City’s First Female Police Detective
"I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague" (In the comments over at MeFi somebody linked to this twitter thread in which somebody recounts being told - by a man, natch - that women "don't really orgasm like that" and if she thought so, she was wrong. How he can be such an expert when surely he never gets to sleep with the same woman twice, I don't know.)
When Civility Is Used As A Cudgel Against People Of Color
California governor halts death penalty: 'I couldn't sleep'
The human cost of insulin in America (God, it's even worse than asthma inhalers, and that is saying a damn lot.)
Jewish Caricatures at Belgian Carnival Set Off Charges of Anti-Semitism (No, this is not PC going "too far" ffs.)
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Date: 2019-03-16 10:35 pm (UTC)I realise my instinctive reaction is "take a DVD of everything you can, scientists will be so interested in parallel worlds they'll figure out how to build a DVD player", but that only works if that's actually true, if no-one cares and it has to be something I could reconstruct ad hoc, I don't know what I'd do.
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Date: 2019-03-16 10:44 pm (UTC)