I got the Shingrix shingles vaccine on Thursday, and I definitely felt some side effects yesterday (fatigue, chills) but I’m pretty confident it’s way better than actually getting shingles.
@overholt@LillyHerself it is the second shot that is a killer for side effects (intense joint pain in my case) but everyone says actual shingles is the worst pain they've ever had so definitely better etc.
These fake William Morris prints for sale on Etsy are such an aggressive attack on historical reality. Not content with mutating his work to better fit a 21st century market, they come with fictitious provenance as well. https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery
@overholt I think this would be an interesting story for @404mediaco to dig into. I’d make a sad prediction that there is a rapidly expanding amount of this kind of thing across many types of objects on Etsy.
JOB POSTING: Assistant Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, one of the world's premiere collections of materials on the history of the performing arts, especially theater, ballet, and opera. Minimum salary $66,200.
I just heard a 25-year-old on a podcast say “Growing up, we didn’t have a TV…” and after a brief pause he finished the sentence in a way that made me feel every bit of the twice his age that I am, “in the car, like the rich kids did, we just had one of those portable DVD players.”
Growing up, I didn’t have seatbelts in the car—my mom kept her first car, a 1963 Ford Falcon, into the early 80s. My dad, who was a sales manager, got a new leased Oldsmobile every few years from work, which had (for the time) modern safety equipment, and once, for an excruciatingly embarrassing period for his children, a CB radio.
I have a theory that the concept of something being “pre-distressed” is only appealing to you if your life is such that you’ve never actually had to use something until it was completely worn out.
A weirdly common thing I see in our reference questions is people saying something like "I have reason to believe you have X" or "I saw this on the web but I can't find it in your catalog" without including any further information, like they're Woodward and Bernstein protecting a source. It's often easier to solve mysteries if you give us all the information you have!
Because I work with early materials I don’t always stay up to date with the cutting edge of librarianship, but apparently they have electric books now.