Today I scanned 100 photos with my el cheapo Pandigital scanner. It took me about 2 hours to scan all of them at 600×600 which isn’t the greatest, but for online purposes it’s sufficient. Late last year, I had scanned Europe ’96 and ’97 as well. The 1997 photos had their negatives scanned which gave me a more washed out scan than the prints. It’s…
January 25, 2014Wandering the site tonight I’ve discovered that a lot of the old embedded videos are long gone and some links are totally dead. I’ve had a blog on the site since 2000, and I’ll be honest, I haven’t really done good maintenance on the old entries. Considering they’ve been converted from a manual site to Movable Type and then to WordPress, it’s amazing how good…
January 22, 2014Photo Courtesy US Navy and Gizmodo Today marks the 60th Anniversary of the launching of the first Nuclear Submarine, the Nautilus. I’m a huge fan of the Nautilus because its namesake lives on in the Disneyland Submarine fleet! Gizmodo has compiled some great photos from the US Navy and other sources including ones of the christening ceremony – I love bunting!!
January 21, 2014A lot of people are born on January 20, among them Doctor Who’s Tom Baker who turned 80 today and is getting a lot of press from the Who fandom and web sites. So while I certainly wish my Doctor a Happy Birthday, I wanted to focus on another Doctor in my life, DeForest Kelley who played Dr. McCoy on Star Trek. Longtime readers know…
January 20, 2014Today has been a pain due to some sort of database issue on the site. If you can read this, it means that thankfully the site has been fixed and is functioning normally. I’ve experienced a lot of server errors in the last couple of weeks, especially when I am getting ready to post. The server likes to hang and then return a 500 error.…
January 19, 2014