What
Goes Around, Comes Around.
Sorry about the crappy comic. I'm all out of sorts.
I feel like we're all sitting at the edge of the precipice,
breathlessly waiting
for
the
final, definitive word from the intelligence community
that will, at last, send t-Rump and his seditious
cronies tumbling into the
abyss.
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I don't know if you've ever considered this
but web sites such as this one and creations such as
mine are as ephemeral as a butterfly's wing. If I were
to
nibbled to death by newts tomorrow my cartoons and
Rants would only remain viewable as long as the hosting
fee
was paid. If the cyber-mortgage
was nigh when calamity struck this site could be gone
within days. That's a sobering thought.
So
what, I ask myself, might be the best way to save my
works for posterity? Having them printed as books is
the
obvious solution but, to be brutally honest, only a
relatively few people would ever
own a copy.
After having giving it some thought I think the answer
might be Youtube as it never deletes anything that
isn't specifically required
to be deleted. Therefore, a video of all my toons could
be viewable as long as
the net is still novel or useful.
Specifically, I could create a soundless movie in high-def
and devote 5 frames to each comic. The resultant 5-minute
film could hold all my 'toons and the movie could be
downloaded and played back a few frames
at
a time at the readers leisure. Just like an e-book.
It also occurred to me that Youtube could likewise
operate as an effective genealogical tool. For instance,
my younger sister
passed away
in 1989. If I put scans of all her photos in a video
like the one described above, plus providing
frames of pertinent biographical information, my familial
antecedents would have an easy-to-access trove of information.
You might think that Youtube will run out of storage
space some day but I've read recently of successful
experiments in storing
data in DNA. Storage and retrieval techniques have
been cracked, now all they need to do is speed up the
access. So, no, I think every cute cat video current
on the 'Tube will be available in some form a hundred
years
hence. And, hopefully, my toons, too.
=Lefty=
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