Just tried to log into something as "sadmin" instead of "admin" & yes, accurate.

Hey Philly archives pals:.

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"my planet's environment was destroyed by power hungry madmen and all I got was this Philips-head screwdriver".

my fingers are crossed for Mental Tools. Imagine never having to hunt for the right drill bit, knitting needle, slotted spoon, or a pair of scissors ever again.

seeing as how it's Dark Sun outside in Philadelphia, fiancé and I are texting about which Wild Talent we want when our psionic abilities come in.

really thought when I became a digital archivist I was done handling gross things, but no one told me about flash drives in soft plastic cases that apparently get very sticky after 15 years.

/points to string conspiracy chart where all strings lead back to metadata & labor.

*stares into the camera*.

do any a/v archivists on here charge for VHS tape digitization and if so, what do you charge? #digipres.

RT @archivistmemes:

RT @vg_history: (1989)

Great Question at the #BitCuratorForum is just the best! Love to spend 90 minutes talking to other smart people who are also laying the track just in front of the train.

still thinking about how at my local #BitCuratorForum today our host asked each attendee what their favorite file format was. I said XML and you know what? I stand by it. Solid format. Clunky. Keeps shambling along like an internet behemoth.

(which says more about the move away from email and into other methods of communication than it does about ePADD though).

the most important people in my life aren't even in the top 20 correspondents.

@e_padd my top correspondent is a dude I was never really friends with, but who organized rides out to a D&D game in the burbs & so generated a ton of emails.

testing out the new @e_padd v 10 on my own Gmail mbox exports it's been a great reminder of how our donors are not their data.

I'm not a greeting card person, but my boyfriend is, and so .#avpreservation