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It’s always a new surprise when he drops by the office…
What do you think this is for?
39 responses to “Todd’s New Tattoo”
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Presume he wants to be freeze dried for the future…
(typed without reflection…)I recall some scam where everyone was in vats but no refrigeration going…………(!!)
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very funny….. the whole fresh fish question with flash freezing.
Todd spends a fair bit of time in Afghanistan developing mobile software tools for participatory democracy, so perhaps the embossed instruction set is unique to his situation.
and flickr reminds me when we first met
and then he got us to eat bugs
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If everyone signed up for this, we could wait for Social Security to become solvent before thawing… no, wait, that won’t work …. maybe we could freeze and thaw in response to economic needs for workers… hmmmm…. I think there’s a study grant buried in here… somewhere…. 😉
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Frogs do it…
I think you need to run an IV of Prestone or other quality antifreeze before you go in the cooler. -
That’s just a print, right, not an actual tat? and where’s the beard.. dd he shave it off for Katy’s birthday?
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Yep, it’s a tattoo. The main reason for it is to clearly express my intentions when I’m dead and not able to speak for myself. I don’t want there to be any doubt.
Occasionally cases get held up while the hospital administrators, doctors, and lawyers approve releasing the patient. The intentions of the patient can be called into question, and there have been some high profile legal battles involving family members who don’t want a patient cryopreserved. Alcor’s signup process involves plenty of paperwork documenting the patients intentions, but paperwork takes time to move and process.
I’m hoping the tattoo saves precious minutes / hours / days by reducing uncertainty.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddwick]
Well….what can one say…?
Good luck…? (I guess)
For me, an awkward Flickr moment for sure…..As an MD I have to admit interest in the concept…..Stroke treatment,brain injury management etc.
Having said that the goal here (neuro preservation) is perhaps as complex as SJ’s interest in getting computers to mimic human brains..
It reemphasizes (for me) the wonder of the complexity (? miracle) of life,and the difficulty we all face in dealing with death.. -
If only it had some color and were in something like…"Zapfino" font. <—(this is my sense of humor)
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The last digit of the phone number is missing! That won’t help save precious minutes / hours / days by reducing uncertainty.
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Wow life is for the living. To be that obsessed (scared) of your eventual death that you feel the need to brand yourself is sad. That said looks totally fake.
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General Chang: that’s exactly how I feel about religion. =)
brianrjackson: the digit is there. I removed a couple digits from the tattoo in iPhoto to provide a sliver of anonymity
AJolly – well, you know what they say, most tattoos and sex change operations lead to eventual regret. =)
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I would be more interested in waking up back in time somewhere, than in the future….
I am looking for a used time machine,at a good price.
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cool discussion but if people who would find one’s body in Afganistan would not read in English:D got to have tatoo in the right language… yep, tattoos kinda permanent.. ID card in different languages would do just fine… also i am wondering if it is truly possible to freeze and unfreeze somebody and get them back exactly how they were before… and what they would feel… being asleep and having snowflake dreams… hope that my imagination coupled with my sense of humor is getting me in trouble here again:D
interesting and rather serious topic to play with … although who said death and or religion are not topics to play with… thankfully, there is no law against it… and from “evolution’s gift of play” perspective… this is how we learn and grow – by playing…not freezing anything into dogmas or popsicles… bodisciles…
also sex changing subject reminds me “quantum leap” series… when one can jump bodies and ages… or there was one Russian comedy lately when husband and wife woke up and figured that they have traded their bodies… -
ouch.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/98897430@N00] – the c with a line over it is prescription-speak for "with"
Dave & venetta: The past more than the future? How far back? If we went just 2K years back, I think we’d be shocked at the level of general misery, violence and medieval thought. It would be worse than dropping into the most racist, "immoral" and ignorant backwater you can imagine on Earth today.Fun to study, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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I was thinking around 1930…(!!)
Hard to say exactly..
Not something I really dwell on much…but I love reading about the past….seems like so much change went on from 1930 to 1950…both good and bad.
Unlike [http://www.flickr.com/photos/24270806@N06] I would bring enough $$ backwards with me to enjoy reverse inflation.I am not even going to touch the subject of cryopreservation..
Not sure how my kids (if I had any) would feel about the $$ costs,estate/inheritance aspects of it all though.
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yep, the medieval thought was scary… they would burn me as witch in middle ages:D so I am not in a hurry to get there…
ha, vennetaj – i would go for furniture shopping during revolutions… right, could get some antiques from the palace for free:D assuming that one will survive the ordeal…
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/7409001@N04]
> ça jette un froid ..
> ( sorry the joke works only in French)Works in English too.
That cryopreservation talk casts a chill, and stops the conversation, er, dead
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/47406192@N08]
> ha, vennetaj – i would go for furniture shopping during revolutions…
> right, could get some antiques from the palace for free 😀I understand many of the ruffians who helped themselves with the jewelry and furniture at the Garde-Meuble were later caught and guillotined…
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I heard cryopreserving the head is the cheaper option, gotta get the best deal. It would be quite the experience waking up with someone else’s body attached. Maybe they are planing on waiting until an android body is feasible as life support for the head. Maybe "growing" another Todd from a few latent cells is a closer reality!
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A temporary tattoo might be a good option for some people signed up for cryopreservation. I wouldn’t want a permanent tattoo myself. A tat, temporary or not, might also appeal to those who don’t like wearing either the neck tag (the nickel in which causes my skin to break out) or the loose wrist chain. Fortunately, Alcor now offers a smarter and more comfortable black wrist band.
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Just caught up with Todd at his birthday, here in SF.
About 5 years ago he spent a fair bit of time in Afghanistan developing mobile software tools for participatory democracy, so perhaps the embossed instruction set is unique to his situation.
Then we launched rockets in the desert 
And flickr reminds me when we first metand then he got us to eat bugs
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