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Smaug, Archives, and Mistakes
341.2025
Morning, The Hobbit in my hand—finally embarking on this journey—a sip of coffee, the brisk white of Winter through my windows, the ambience of a fantasy library in my ears. As I approach the end of the first chapter and read this quatrain:
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day
To find our long-forgotten gold.
my attention is pulled to it. As I finish the chapter, I go back and read it once more, and again. Through a leap of association, I realize I have a bunch of data, slowly bitrotting away in my multiple HDD, SSHD, USB drives, MicroSD cards, and CDs. This long-forgotten gold (data) in dungeons deep and caverns old (external storage spread across my appartment) has to be dealt with, ere break of day (before I start another project, and forget once more about my archives that date back over half a decade).
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Smaug, Archives, and Mistakes
341.2025
Morning, The Hobbit in my hand—finally embarking on this journey—a sip of coffee, the brisk white of Winter through my windows, the ambience of a fantasy library in my ears. As I approach the end of the first chapter and read this quatrain:
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day
To find our long-forgotten gold.
my attention is pulled to it. As I finish the chapter, I go back and read it once more, and again. Through a leap of association, I realize I have a bunch of data, slowly bitrotting away in my multiple HDD, SSHD, USB drives, MicroSD cards, and CDs. This long-forgotten gold (data) in dungeons deep and caverns old (external storage spread across my appartment) has to be dealt with, ere break of day (before I start another project, and forget once more about my archives that date back over half a decade).
Full entry here