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If you’ve ever been curious about what I do at work, I’m doing a virtual reading room tour & show-n-tell at this event at 8PM CST: https://libcal.library.umkc.edu/event/16658454?hs=a
Edit: Here is a YouTube video of the event I virtual tour-guided on: https://youtu.be/PbsV93wpSno?si=0Sc2pR-bgou8nD4S #thatarchiveslife #archives #libraries
It me playing Pokemon Legends Z-A: https://www.awkwardzombie.com/awkward-zombie/a-bolt-from-the-blue
Ernie Bushmiller kind of predicted the Internet in this early 1950's Fritzi Ritz comic
NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
Slow the fuck down is also the way to avoid scams, social engineering, phishing, etc.
“Oh, no the CEO of my employer is having an emergency and I need to click this link right now!!!”
Slow down…
“Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it.” (It probably is a phishing email.)
In general, “Slow the fuck down” is an extremely powerful information literacy skill.
Genuinely thinking about showing this to my freshmen instead of the CRAAP test
S L O W.
T HE F U C K.
D O W N.
R E S I S T L I Z A R D B R A I N!
R E S I S
T L I Z A R D
B R A I N!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
One of my previous bosses, the Archivist for the State of -redacted for privacy-, had one of these (or very very similar prototype format) that he kept in his briefcase.
Whenever someone in a meeting would say something along the lines of “we don’t need to worry about that/budget money for that/do that, everything is digital now!” He would pull this bad boy out of his briefcase and say “this has digital files on it, please access them. Oh, you can’t? Well what about this? or these?” And pull out a selection floppy discs and CD types.
And that is how he fought the good fight for a budget for the archives because digital preservation is expensive and difficult and there are a million different hardware and software types and technological obsolescence is a nightmare.
Everyone give me the most screwed up thing that has ever happened to you in the american public school system
edit- oh my gosh guys I'm so sorry
For some reason, from 1st grade through 12th grade, no one thought it was a problem that I never spoke, or seldom spoke. Was not tested. Was not referred to a specialist. I guess it’s what’s now called selective mutism. I mean, I went through the American Public School System in the 1990s and 2000s, so it wasn’t well known back then, but… isn’t that odd? I would be called on by teachers in class and seize up frozen. Kids asked me so much “why do you not talk?” that I would cry because I honestly didn’t know.
I was later diagnosed with anxiety, depression, auditory processing disorder and ADHD as an adult and I’m sure I had those growing up as well. I would sit in class bored out of my mind staring off into space, doodling in paper margins, or reading/doing other things. Hands-on classes were my favs, and teachers who spoke clearly and wrote instructions down for everything were favs. But because I did well in school those behaviors weren’t flagged as problems, and thus not tested or referred to specialists.
My family laughed their asses off when they read a high school guidance counselor’s dossier on my brother (who had been placed on a 504 for chronic illnesses) that described me as “normal.” Ma’am?
Saw a post like this with negative outlook so I asked for it to be fixed
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.
Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
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Someone port Doom to a blanket
I really love tumblr for this 🙌
It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)
Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”
I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.
With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.
ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)
This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.
I’m in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:
Here are the punch cards:
Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns. Here are some patterns:
How many punchcards per pattern?
This many:
Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but while Joseph Marie Jacquard gets all the credit for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.
I’ve seen this cross my dash a few times, but I’ve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention when I was a kid, but I don’t remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. It’s cool to see the how, not just the what.
Don’t hide this in the tags, @drylime :D
I am never not amused by the overlap of textiles and technology. Also the fact that a huge number of fiber arts people I know are either in tech or math themselves or their partner is (myself included - husband is a programmer).
I need people to understand…that if you believe in paying people a livable hourly wage…most hand-knitted clothing should cost hundreds of dollars
“My grandma could make that!” YOUR GRANDMA LOVES YOU ENOUGH TO SPEND A MONTH MAKING YOU A SWEATER FOR CHRISTMAS, I HAVE NO SUCH AFFECTION
this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it
buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell
leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist
put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.
when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!
plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.
if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge
if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.
its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.
it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet
tbh i still start sentences with “hokay, so” at least 3 times a day
same, aggressively so. I also still use “wtf, mate.”
#i have no idea what this is referring to#but i’m relieved to know i’m not the only one out there randomly quoting old internet videos#some shit is always hilarious to me (x)
OH MAN
LET ME LEARN YOU A THING
who doesn’t think this is STILL AS HILARIOUS as it was when we all watched it over and over and over again 15 years ago?
I’ve reblogged this before and will doubtless reblog this again because MY ENTIRE GROUP OF FRIENDS WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO IN 2002/2003 THAT WE COLLECTIVELY BANNED ANY MENTION OF IT EVER AGAIN
AND YET
WE ARE NOW GROWN-ASS ADULTS IN OUR THIRTIES
AND IT STILL GETS QUOTED FROM TIME TO TIME
I HAVE THE WHOLE THING MEMORISED
TO THIS DAY, MY MOTHER REGULARLY SAYS “BUT I AM LE TIRED” BECAUSE OF A VIDEO I SHOWED HER IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL
THIS IS AN ICONIC PIECE OF INTERNET HISTORY AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERS
my wife and I still regularly say “hokay so”, “but I am le tired” and “and some big meteor’s like ‘well fuck that’.” Fucking iconic.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE AND I’M SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS POST BECAUSE I’VE SEEN IT NOW AND I CAN’T STOP FUCKING LAUGHING
God how has it been that long
Happy Anniversary to this twenty year old flash epic!
Holy heck I’m old. I was a teenager first discovering the Interwebz when this released. I still quote “but I am le tired.”
People asking me if I'm going to start selling crochet items, because I like crocheting and they liked looking at what I've made:
1) I don't monetise my hobbies,
2) Hugo cost me over $200 in materials and labour,
3) NOBODY is going to pay me $240 (+shipping) for an 8" crocheted frog, because people are less willing to pay an artist rather than look for a cheaper corporation manufactured thing
Crocheting is not the type of hobby you do to make money from. Crocheting is the type of hobby that you do because you love it, and it is time consuming and expensive.
If someone gifts you something they made out of yarn, with their own hands, it's because THEY LOVE YOU.
Asking an archivist and/or librarian for research and reference help
I’m sorting through the hellscape that is my inbox after being on vacation for 10 days and it really highlights that there is a Goldilocks zone for asking a library/archives research and reference question. These are based on actual examples in my library archives inbox right now.
Case 1: can you send me stuff you sent to X in April?
Rating: I need way more information. I have absolutely zero idea what this is about. I have exactly 1 email from X and it is from two days before I left town about a meeting, so someone else was doing their research. Seriously, what are we talking about???
Case 2: here is a very long and very traumatic account of what happened to my family during this dictatorship and the individual ways they were tortured, do you have any of these publications?
Rating: holy trauma dump Batman that is so much more information than I will ever need to check publication titles. Trauma aside, it actively makes it harder to answer your questions if you give a 1,000+ word essay with it because we need to really dig to figure out what you are asking.
Case 3: I am working on a thesis for uni and am interested in materials about X during time period Y-Z. I would be especially interested in reports or newsletters from or about these regions. Please feel free to contact me with questions here [email protected]
Verdict: I love you. I have very clear subject/area of interest and a defined time period (I don’t want to send you materials from 1900s if you are only interested in the last 15 years). I know how materials are being used (helpful because I work for a nonprofit so need to know about things like licensing and reproduction, not always the case) and what might be of more help and potentially related studies.
Keep it simple. You will likely get follow up questions (especially in archives) and that doesn’t mean you got a bad grade in asking. We are just gathering clues to help get you matched with materials, related items, stuff that maybe doesn’t exactly match what you asked but could be of interest, etc.
In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.
Sesame Street's official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.
Sesame Street on PBS KIDS. Play games with Elmo, Big Bird, Abby and all of your Sesame Street friends. Watch videos and print coloring pages
As always, America, PBS has you and your kids' backs.
I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country. More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.
https://americanarchive.org/
Pokemon Go’s 7th anniversary is now-ish & the game has changed a lot since I last played. Here’s my friend code: 7064 9894 0801 #PokemonGO #PokemonGOfriends
My hubs DeerTrivia 🦌 needs friends on Pokemon Go! His friend code is 9643 1742 0147
#PokemonGO #PokemonGOfriends
Completed six days’ worth of @shitpostsampler stitch-a-long in an afternoon. Now I wait. And yes I am staycationing.
Pokemon Go’s 7th anniversary is now-ish & the game has changed a lot since I last played. Here’s my friend code: 7064 9894 0801 #PokemonGO #PokemonGOfriends
