My father still has his darkroom built into his house with a stainless steel sink, stocked with chemicals, but it's not used much anymore. I recently had his Canon F1 rebuilt by a local shop who still does the repair work and it was great to shoot a few rolls, but the hobby is very expensive by my income standards so probably wont use it for much. Digital and print with an online service (costco outsources to shutterfly) has good enough results, but film still is more beautiful. The shop I had the film done in used the old kodak scanners processing though so the digital versions they gave me with the film prints are noticeably obsolete in quality.

https://status.creativecloud.c... authentication is still down

I tried to download some e-books from my library website, adobe digital editions is dead while this the authentication system is down, so can't get any e-books. And it's been more than a day without any explanation. Another disappointment courtesy DRM.

I tried to download some e-books from my library website, adobe digital editions is dead while this the authentication system is down, so can't read any e-books. Another disappointment courtesy DRM.

Be careful about your hermetic seals, water leakage has turned many time capsules into a soggy brown liquid. I suggest some silica gel (the kind you shouldn't eat) to absorb any latent water in the air when you seal it so you don't get condesation. Anything you seal inside should either be readable by normal human means or include the reader. Avoid batteries or other volatile chemicals as they will leak. Burned CDs are really just like polaroid photographs and fade in about 15 years on the outset depending on the burn speed and qualities of the dyes. Include black and white photos or 3 color separations so that it is easy to put back together. Same goes for 3d photos, the future is likely to use more stereo photography so take a picture with 2 cameras next to each other of the same type. I use two iphones and tap the shutters simultanously a few times to see if I can get a match. Make sure you deposit the item in a place unlikely to face future development or it will just be shoveled up onto a trash pile. There's a start, but think long term. A lot can happen in a quarter century. LONGNOW DOT ORG

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