Rusty thing and new old font
I have no idea what this thing is for, but it was worth a picture.
Rusty thing I found on a rainy autumn day back in 2012…
I had some old cd’s lying around that contained back up from my prehistoric, ancient computer. The cd’s were so old that they were unreadable for the modern day hardware, so I had to rip out the cd-rom from the old computer and install it into the new one to be able to read the cd’s. The old cd burner was so slow that it took around 9 hours to copy the files from the cd onto the hard disk. Eventually it worked and after two days of copying old material, I could finally have a look at all the old files. Among the files I found a whole bunch of fonts that a friend gave me. The font I used on this photo is called HourPhoto.
I like the font, it’s crisp and clean. As far as the object in the photo? Looks like a tetanus shot waiting to happen.
January 4, 2013 at 00:39
Haha
I had to look up tetanus shot and I’m such a geek so I started reading site after site about it.
January 5, 2013 at 08:10
looks like the body of an old string instrument…? great effort to salvage old pics!
January 4, 2013 at 00:43
This picture isn’t old, but I did salvage a lot of old pictures. Many memories (mostly point and click photos with friends at parties and such).
January 5, 2013 at 08:12
I like the font. It’s like a film strip. I still have a whole slough of floppy disks! I was obsessed with storing stuff back then.
I like the picture [and the comment about a tetanus shot]… it has texture to it..
January 4, 2013 at 02:22
Hehe, floppy disks , they were useless!
I remember we used to download music when we were at school and then brought the music home on floppy disks. Our bags were full of them!
Floppy disks are already such ancient technology that even the terms used when mentioning them are ancient: For one album you needed something like a gross of floppy disks that costed a knight’s fee.
January 5, 2013 at 08:27
I remember when the whole OS … Win3.1 came on 25 floppy disks LOL ..but I’m really OLD!
January 5, 2013 at 12:48
How big is that rusty thing? Now i am curious… Glad to see that I am not the only one with old files on legacy systems (there is a Centris in my warehouse…) at least you were able to salvage something cool off it – great font!
January 4, 2013 at 03:04
The thing was pretty big. It was lying under a temporary metal bridge in an area where they’re doing some construction work. The length was, if I remember correctly, approximately like the size of my foot (which again is probably more or less like your foot +/- ).
Centris, that’s some old school stuff there. Luckily I’ve now transferred my files from my legacy system, so now I’ll just have to wait a few days/weeks before my recent system also becomes a legacy system and then repeat the process
January 5, 2013 at 08:39
Curious, your rusty thing – makes a great paperweight though! We are stuck in a vicious cyber circle, sometimes I feel like the legacy system…
January 5, 2013 at 15:42
Things are changing fast in the cyber world. Sometimes it seems like the technology is racing at supersonic speed.
January 5, 2013 at 16:47
We have been making a joke for the last few years about how it would be easier to have a phone “in” your hand so you wouldn’t have to carry it around with you – I watched the new Total Recall over the holidays and there it was…
January 5, 2013 at 17:09
It would have been a proper paperweight! Heavy and large.
January 5, 2013 at 17:24
It looks like in inside of a music box that I dismantled..
January 4, 2013 at 04:04
Perhaps that’s what it is? We’ll never know.
January 5, 2013 at 08:40
Yes, it looks like an instrument of some kind. Like the font – it works well with the image.
January 4, 2013 at 15:04
Yes, the font is awesome. Works well with photos such as this one.
January 5, 2013 at 08:41
This one did not appear on my reader ….. WHY??? I like this font and that rusty object is so well photographed …. Was it in a park or on some dumping site? Keeps me intrigued….
January 4, 2013 at 20:32
The Cardinal GPS-coordinates tells me that it’s in an area where they’re doing construction, next to a highway, near the park where I ice skate and also next to the sea, a river and the Opera House
January 5, 2013 at 08:46
January 5, 2013 at 12:07
Here it is as a TTF:
http://www.fontineed.com/font/hour_photo
January 6, 2013 at 07:49
What a great site! I’ll follow it on Twitter now.
Thanks a lot Allen!
January 6, 2013 at 09:13