{"id":81,"date":"2008-05-22T11:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/05\/22\/on-the-cost-of-memories-so-fleeting\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T22:23:49","slug":"on-the-cost-of-memories-so-fleeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/05\/22\/on-the-cost-of-memories-so-fleeting\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cost of Memories so Fleeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.<\/span>– Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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Who amung us does not remember the time they found a old brown photograph of their grandparents or the like, faded and time worn, yet a stark reminder of what once was;\u00a0A time forgotten to past age? Even today, almost all of us can go dashing about the house in some old tool or shoe box and find a memory, lost in time, caption on the back.<\/p>\n

Yet we are losing the ability to make these memories. Losing them to the march of time and technology. Today’s digital camera’s allow up to 500 pictures and as a popular commercial pointed out, few of these leave the camera. People caption their face book and flicker pictures but really, do these companies have the lasting power of GE or Walgreens? What happens when they close? What happens when you find a better service and want to move on? Can you take your pictures with you? How do you turn over the photo and see the data and time and who’s in the picture?<\/p>\n

There are dozens of services to make print outs of pictures, but these are really for parents or grandparents unused to technology. It’s easier to send the pictures by email, and as technology moves on, so much easier to lose them. Think for a second, how far back do you have a digital picture album? How many pictures have you lost to a bad memory card or hard drive crash? Memories, times, events, as quick as they were gone, lost.<\/p>\n

Recently, what i’ve started to do is collect a year in pictures. Carefully go over them, and them make a book online (amazon or a dozen others will do it.) A picture book, about 14.00 to 50 bucks, then oder a copy for myself and my family. In some cases i can caption the images, in others, i just write the caption in the book, after all, its mine. Thou, i don’t know how long i can keep it up. It’s like organizing books or CD’s. You know you should do it, yet, you can’t sit down and do it.<\/p>\n

In the end i don’t have a solution for you, for this. Take $10 a month and just print some prints from your digital camera. If you can upload them to flicker or myspace, you can upload to walgreens and wolf camera and then, have them sent to your house. Surely, a memory, 20 years from now is worth that $10.<\/p>\n

Surely so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.– Abraham Lincoln . Who amung us does not remember the time they found a old brown photograph of their grandparents or the like, faded and time worn, yet a stark reminder of what once was;\u00a0A time forgotten to past age? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[265,110,264],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-lost","tag-memory","tag-pictures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}