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CDs, DVDs Eyed For Long-Term Archival Use
Alien54 writes "Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are launching an effort to develop specifications for 'archival quality' CD and DVD media that agencies could use to ensure the procurement of sufficiently robust media for their long-term archiving needs (i.e., 50 years and longer). See the press release at the NIST site." The research involves "...enclosed chambers that use temperature and humidity changes to artificially age the media some 20 years in only six weeks."
Should I start worrying about you know, or later when you try to use this like a Chinese water-torture ritual on someone else?
I have to disagree with you, and support the previous poster to some extent.
With a child, especially a newborn, a large part of their sleeping habits are determined by the parent, but not all. This is not fully empirical, but think about this: I know people with several children who state that their first child slept through the night very soon after birth, but a subsequent child did not.
That is the thing, for me at least, that will make you feel 20 years older in just 6 weeks--getting up three or four times every night.
If you are doing this with your child (who I assume is now about 2 years old), and still feel younger, then you need to let us know what miracle drug/therapy you are using, because I need some of that.
This, of course, from the perspective of someone who has a 19 month old, and a second one due in October. Sleeping next to a pregnant woman is not condusive to good, restful sleep.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)