posted 11/06/08 01:29 PM
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A day in the life of Capitol Hill Seattle

Next Thursday's posts on CHS will be even more, um, important than usual. We'll compile our usual -- parts of a day in the life on Capitol Hill Seattle -- but we'll also print and submit the posts to be part of this time capsule. West Seattle replaced their Alki Statue of Liberty and now have a place to stow a time capsule again. They're celebrating by collecting bits of life from around the city on Nov. 13th, 157 years after the first white people landed at Alki. The capsule will be opened again in 2058.

As I'll likely be dead and gone from some horrible blogging accident, this one is really for the kids. Spread the word to teachers and schools so they can get involved. They can e-mail amercado@loghousemuseum.org for info.

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performance art?
egads - now that you've told us it definitely won't be a typical day in any sense of the word. if we're all hamming it up for some 50-years hence readers they may get a very different sense of what it's actually like here on an average day (couple of posts about sundry storm-drain sludge and the like).

maybe we should view this as performance art and all post spectacularly outrageous fictional happenings, with faked pictures and everything.

could be pretty funny.
Comment by pfftasaurus rex
8 months ago
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Paper, good choice
Acid Free paper: guaranteed to be readable in 50 years.

Even now we'd be baffled by 20 to 30-year-old digital media: 5 1/4" CP/M diskettes, 8" diskettes, even a 3 1/2" MS-DOS diskette (of a Wordstar file) might create problems. And as for my DECtapes, and 9 track DEC-10 tapes.

At least a person with time on their hands could figure out my 80 column cards and punched cards (assuming they were bilingual and understood ASCII and EBCDIC).
Comment by Andrew Taylor
7 months ago
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recap?
Justin, I enjoyed your photo and video log of all of the election day activities on the hill. I was hoping you might do a more detailed written report for the blog which might include your route, impressions, great moments, etc. Perhaps if you did write something like this you might publish it on Thursday so it could be included in the time capsule. That way, you can capture some of the excitement from election day in a written snapshot for future generations and all that.
Comment by linder seattle
7 months ago
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