literaturegirl
2 weeks ago
I can't believe I missed craic day... Although, in my defense, you failed to teach me about fishing or fire. I'm still cold and starving here.
capstasher
2 weeks ago
@literaturegirl It would upset the ecosystem of Ireland if one of you knew about this. Your ancestors endured harsh winters, you will also survive.
vhsmaronite
1 month ago
My heart bleeds for you. I'm in the exact same position with my degree. Thankfully I decided to work all throughout my college days, so I'm at least able to be promoted with my degree. But it's far from ideal- and far from the field I actually went to university for. Hang in there, brother. I hear you.
capstasher
1 month ago
@vhsmaronite: Things are better now, this was just a small update to an old article. I managed to get the job mentioned there but even now, with a year experience, I still get rejected from everywhere else. Dunno what I would do if I got fired.
But yeah, while with Fortean Times I can have a gallery of all the issues' covers, it won't be as easy to do that for these. Plus, it's not just one, there is an unknown number of publications, each with an unknown number of issues to them. It's all very poorly documented. Wikipedia has a list, but it's both incomplete and inaccurate.
Regardless, this tells me there is a severe need for someone to actually go through and document these, make scans, and archive them in a public manner, before the last of these issues rot in someone's storage, or are thrown in a landfill for being, you know, old magazines. I have already published the ISO of one of my Newtype USA DVDs (it took a whole day, incredibly painful experience)
My biggest issue with scanning is that unless you are willing to sink hundreds to thousands of pounds into equipment, you're pretty much forced to destroy your copies to get good scans. You have to use a guillotine to slice off the spines of bound magazines, and then scan the pages individually. I uhhh refuse to do this. You will never catch me destroying them to get good scans.
I will likely figure something out, eventually, but it will be very time consuming.