Can confirm. Spent a day sweeping and rearranging tools for one museum photo.

Holy crap, your aggregate was stored in a humid shed? That would totally screw me up too.

Cleaner systems make life faster everywhere. Not just code.

30 years of backcountry hiking and I've seen plenty of GPS units fail in heavy cover or cold weather. The real issue isn't the gadget but people trusting it as their only plan instead of a tool. Paper maps and compass skills aren't old school, they're just school.

every page had some reference i had to look up" yeah that's the exact thing. i notice this pattern everywhere now not just books. like people will argue about politics or whatever and they're using words they heard on youtube but don't actually understand the history behind them. it's like everyone's just skimming the surface of everything. i caught myself doing it with a documentary last week, nodding along then realized i couldn't explain what they meant by "postmodernism" if my life depended on it. makes you wonder how much of what we think we know is just borrowed opinions.