Cowboys and sheep ranchers might object to defining ag as plant science alone. I did graduate work in range management and neatly (or not so neatly) slid into a hybrid sort of career that involved fringes of a whole bunch of different scientific disciplines. Now I own cattle, run a wildlife museum, and produce a wildlife newsletter- this from a student who in 1973 announced she wanted to go through four years of college without looking at an animal. Ya never know what's gonna be relevant.
The total number of stitches in a Major League official baseball is 216 single stitches (108 double stitches).
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Sad: Climate Activists Vandalize A Jackson Pollock But No One Notices
Nutella as filling between yellow cake layers covered with coconut frosting and birthday candles- who cares what's in the stuff? One piece a year might not kill me.
I must always have cookies, doughnuts or sweets to hand, in case I go hypoglycaemic. I once went hypoglycaemic and had to eat a whole packet of peanut M&Ms. It was terrible, I tell you, terrible.
My lovebird can crush a peanut with his beak, and he can also carefully split open a sunflower seed and swallow the seed while dropping the undamaged husk to the ground.
About 10 years back I bought a nice copy of The New Oxford American Dictionary, which came complete with a CD-ROM copy of the entire dictionary, so I could electronically access it. I never opened the CD, and now I totally lack any means to do so. Amazing how technology has progressed. Many moons back when I was working as a federal law clerk, I was careful to preserve all the jury instructions I prepared, so I could always have access to them. But they were preserved on floppy discs, and by the time I had a need to access them, of course floppies were history. Which tells me that distant future generations (if there be any) will likely have no way to find any documentation to the lives we live now. There will be old books, of course, but most correspondence and government records will be inaccessible, should those future archeologists even have an idea of the formats we used. There will be no Rosetta Stone.
Last time I checked you can get special readers for floppy discs that will plug into modern copmputers, and they aren't expensive. I don't know about CD Roms, but you should check to see if there are any readers available for them. Possibly a unit that will plug in via USB cable? In fact, the floppy disc reader I saw also had slots for several other now-extinct older devices, I don't recall what they were.
I persist in making hard copies of all important documents and storing copies in at least two different places. Guess I'm just an old-fashioned girl. Speaking of which, I went into a Barnes and Noble yesterday and discovered far more music on vinyl than any other form. A nice young man explained to me the improvement in technology over CDs, which is what I was looking for.
I am very pleased with the current state of music technology, with my own preference having now become the mainstream; digital for portability and vinyl for quality. I always hated CDs.
There are USB external readers for 3-1/2" "floppies," (which aren't floppy), but for reasons that are beyond my technological comprehension no such readers exist for 5-1/4" floppy disks. And there are, indeed, external USB readers for CD/DVD disks. I have one, and it works very well. Not at all expensive.
I have an external CD/DVD drive, is that all it takes to read a CD Rom? I think it just means a disc with files on it that aren't video or audio? Or is there more to it? I mean, I have a bunch of old CDs that I burned computer files on long ago, and it will read those. Is that the same as a CD Rom?
Did a little Googling, and yes, apparently a CD drive or DVD drive (which will also read CDs), is what was once called a CD Rom. It stands for Read Only Memory, meaning it could read but not write. Todays CD drives can read and write. So they can access files on a CD Rom disc, assuming you have the proper apps to access those files.
Okey doke. I should have said "to my knowledge" and maybe "except for specialized readers" or something like that. I guess it's obvious that someone would find a way to access the stuff. I'm not interested in reading the dictionary on CD-ROM anyway, I'll either read it in paper or go on line for dictionary work. The point is that technology moves on but there's a risk that all our data will be lost because those future archeologists probably won't have any computer geeks around to help them figure out what these pieces of plastic are supposed to do or be. IMHO
A Blu-Ray (BD) drive can also read CDs. External USB BD or DVD drives are quite common. I actually have a USB 3.5" floppy drive. But when I started, 5.25" floppies were the norm, and 8" floppies had been obsolete for a few years.
CDs will become very stylish again, I guarantee it. Don't let these slobs fool you into thinking the hoi polloi are buying vinyl because they can tell the difference in sound.
