How long..

I've written about this before and with what happened to me yesterday I thought I'd write about it again.. I got  a new SD card for the camera  a few weeks ago, mostly because I thought this old one was getting, well  old.. The old Sd card came with the video camera and has been written and erased for 6 years now give or take a day or two.. And that sounded like a lot to me, and when one day the back side cover plastic bit peeled away I thought, time for a new one.. But then yesterday happened.. What was that you ask, the old SD card I have been using to do the music sorting to try to make the 32GB (29GB) flash drive full of music my taste and everything, the all being all knowing the.. this is IT.. my taste in music this is what you get fuck you if you don't like it my taste my way or the highway ...  you know.. my...  there.. and so I was using the card and that little right protection tab popped out..  Making that card right protected forever..  Then I thought, this thing is just like a regular cassette tape (VHS/audio) with that space tab thing in the left hand corner, put a piece of tape over that and record over that night of too much fun five years ago that could make someones eyes raise.. You know???????  So the same thing can be done here and a quick Google search confirmed this idea, put a piece of tape over that and everything will continue and also should help with that peeling away issue as well.. So then after checking that I also checked something else.. Life expectancy of the SD card.. This should tell me that buying that new SD card was a good idea.. Well it tells me that these cards are good for about 100,000  usings.. That is one hundred THOUSAND uses... usings.. They say five cycles every day for the next fifty years..  I should be good for that one assuming I can find a piece of tape to get it to work again..  Life expectancy of the flash drives, zip drives and therein is a different story.. They have about the same thing.. Don't wash them.. They will still work but why put them through the washer, just to prove a point??    Life expectancy of a computer??  Well shit.. these things fall apart if you fart near them.. So be careful.. fart in the other room.. And don't breathe on it either.. Hold your air from every orifice...    Live long and prosper.. nanu nanu...

Badge Henry


(P.S.  shorted the entry there... CDRW as well as DVDRW... These don't have a very long service life at all.. I have found that CDR can last up to only six months.. I've had to redo some and yet there were some that still sounded fine here when I was transferring music to make the ultimate this is it music thing (see above) and they sounded fine.. No chuffing.. Whereas I was transferring certain prepressed by way of record company discs that sucked.. Why?? They were likely bootlegs by someone posing as a record company somehow.. One disc was bought at the record store where I had bought a lot of my music there in town.. He likely didn't know this was happening or maybe law of averages caught up to me.. There was a budget best of by the Kinks that was a ten song best of that included a song I had by someone else covering it.. And then there was Black Sabbath Never Say Die.. Ozzy's final album before leaving the first time..  Every other compact disc seemed perfectly fine..  How do I know cdr go bad beyond music? Afew years ago (quite a few years ago actually) my sister inlaw let me borrow her cdr's that had  a lot of pictures stored on them and there were a few that had nothing on them, although they were labeled that they did have a lot of stuff on them.. Sadly I have some that had that same thing happen.. I do think the best overall way to keep pictures stored is on SD cards.. I read where they will hold the pictures extremely well.. The only way they malfunction (get erased) is if you do something that will make that happen, a fairly drastic situation, card meltdown situation.. Don't dive into a pool of molten lava, not good for you, not good for your SD card.. Static charge/discharge??  This I wouldn't recommend.. mostly because certain pins there might connect to nothing, but why chance it.. Ruin the card for fun???  Why bother.. You screwy shit... )