Modifications to Ragmask

Now on my third RagMask (https://ragmask.com/). The first (top left) was as per the original RagMask template but with elastic and an added retainer - unfinished as too hard to breathe through.

The second (top right), was a single layer of cotton and satin in an attempt to make it easier to breathe through. Still with cupping, but also elastic so as it could be worn and experienced. It felt too tight on a face.

The third (bottom) is a sketched out change to the template but the same construction guide. Ragmask's author Loren Brichter says elastic is hard to come by, so I've fashioned some of the 400-thread cotton into a coord. This works well as you're attempting to tie a bow behind your head. Note only one tie - not two. Seems OK, but it needs a work out to find out if that's got shortcomings.


Addendum: Mar 18, 2020 (a few weeks before)

This on a software-engineering google group with colleagues and their referred-in ex/colleagues. 


A friend, who's not communicated with me since (I've asked for an apology), replied:

I took your enthusiasm and motivation to heart. I think I'm still too inept with a sewing machine, however. 3M beat me to it by a few decades, and I think I totally missed the formation of the medical-industrial complex, and stuff like fabrics research or even maybe microscopes. But still, I love the punk rock idea that anyone who has the will has the way - "just figure some chords out and get it off yer chest, y'know?" I had a mohawk when I was a teenager trying to put aside some cash for the face tattoos, and now a couple of decades later I finally have that shot. So instead of pricking my fingers trying to get tiny bits of thread to go through heads of needles (who has the time?!), I took something I know how to do well - write scalable, enterprise-grade code - and put together a new encryption algorithm for everybody to use here. It's better than whatever the government and the experts suggest, because I said so, and because I have some people in Asia using it successfully. And honestly, I just needed to get it off my chest. It's art. It's O(fuck^log(yeah)) and it's on ETSY and it's LOUDER THAN ST PATRICK'S DAY BARS LAST TUESDAY. The kids on spring break in Florida can't wait to go home and tell their boomer parents about it. Here's a PDF with mathy language to make you comfortable ignoring the NSA, RSA, CIA, CDC and WHO - or, let's be honest, let's just call them THE MAN. And the thing about THE MAN is that you gotta stick it to them, no matter what. You won't read the PDF, but it's good to know it's there. As long as the knowledge has been produced, you just need to have it - not in your head, but in the Downloads folder. There's more pressing matters when STICKING IT TO THE MAN. I did it because I wanna show that any reasonable dev can build their own crypto. IT'S JUST LIKE MAKING YOUR OWN N95. It's just code, after all. We've all had algorithms in class, how hard can it be? IT'S JUST LIKE USING PPE WITHOUT TRAINING. It's all made of the same stuff: a multiplication here, a pointer there, some loops and a few lookup tables. People have been doing it since the 70s, it's tribal knowledge by now and you don't even need any gear other than a Stratocaster or a Brian & Kernighnan and a head full of cheap lager. Hey, ho, let's go! Some will say it's a FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY, but that's just, you know, their opinion. That's what THE MAN told them to parrot around. They're suckers. I made it return the input sometimes because it's more EFFICIENT and better utilizes resources, or whatever. Just like the masks, it's gotta have holes or otherwise where would you scream from?! I'm being conscious of CPU cycles, and the planet. I'm smart, too.



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