Dave's Journal / Sep2024
Don't get me wrong, I spend a lot of time on Youtube and I love it. My ?complaint? here is ..... (1) people like this nice lady make tons of $$$ by producing 16 minute videos analyzing the pros and cons of Walmart vs Costco olive oils and (2) there are already close to 500,000 people out there who watched this video!!!
I understand that it's none of my business and I don't have to watch this stuff, but . . . Jees Louise.
Home from shopping and I got fixated (is that a word?) on the hall stairs.
I ended up here:
Me: Can I get off Eliquis now?
Dr.: No.
Me: But....
Dr.: No.
Technology is racing as fast as hardware is wearing out.
I may be replacing my external processors in the next few months. Not an easy decision, as the newly available designs offer subtle but important differences. So I have been hours reading specs and manual and asking around the deaf support group crowd .... the quest goes on.
BTW.... the "Nucleus Implant" is what is buried inside my head (each side).
A TV screen shot using an X-E1 & a vintage Minolta 45mm with a "snow-cross" filter. No question ....I got lucky, and I absolutely love this shot. It is the final frame of the 1935 movie "The Invisible Ray" with B. Karloff and B. Lugosi. (All the bad guys have died and these two get to live happily ever after!)
I happen to be fidgeting with this lens & filter while the movie was playing in the background. Pointed the camera and popped 3 shots as the movie ended. Made my day.
Portsmouth NH .... nice day but $$$$
Huge show and the cars kept rolling in all day long. Cannot imagine the $$$ that was on the ground yesterday.
(I shot the entire day with a tiny 10mm fisheye lens!)
I am facing the possibility that davesjournal should end at some point, and the clock is ticking (faster every day). Thus, I have been gathering all the files collected on my various computers, SSD's, internet server account.
Though extremely intelligent (and charming and good looking) I am actually a very bad librarian, so the task has not been easy, but I am making progress. My goal is to burn a complete copy of davesjournal onto at least one SD card and one external SSD, and drop that in the safe deposit box for the generations that follow.
Anyway . . . let's have a flashback review from September of our first year .....
https://davesjournal.net/Sep2007/Sep2007.html
Note: Don't read too much into this. I am fine and very healthy.
Spent the morning looking for a leak around the oil burner. Oil? Water? .... water.
From a pinhole leak that streamed out of the pipe and was so small (thin diameter) it could not be seen. I got lucky that it hit my hand as I moved around. It sprayed at least 2 feet out, hitting the ceiling beam, dripping onto the oil burner then the floor.
Well, that's the third pinhole leak in that water line (over the last 10 years or so), so it's time to pay the experts for a proper fix. My "fixes" have been silicone pads and clamps with a bucket on the floor for the slow drops.
Nonetheless . . . all things considered . . . the day is ending well . . .
OOOPS ....... design change as of this morning .....
PS: before heading out to Lowe's, check their website for what you're looking for. If they have it, it will show what aisle and bin the part is in. And, if they don't have it, will show as well. Save a trip, save wandering around the store and asking the "helpers (friendly but often clueless).
Q: Do they get cuter than this?
A: No, Sir, they do not.
(Old picture. They are all grown up now.)
(Is he handsome or what !!!)
Never thought I'd see a version of Gaslight better than Ingrid Bergman / Charles Boyer (1944).
I was wrong.
This 1940 version is much edgier, more tense, less romantic.
Never wanted to see the bad guy get his ass handed to him more than in this film.
(I was not disappointed.)
Back when I was a baby boy (!) watching Roy Rogers on TV, my father told me of the cowboy heroes of "the olden days" - Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy, Johnny Mack Brown ......
Once in a while these movies would play on TV channel 13 in New York. They were pretty exciting to a 5 to 8 year old me.
Well, I stumbled across a few yesterday on one of the internet streaming channels, and I watched Tim McCoy in "Straight Shooter". It was enjoyable (taken in the proper context that this was long long ago). A low budget, not well edited or photographed by todays standards. But it did drag me back to what the cowboy movie world was like 70+ years ago - before plots got serious (Stagecoach . . . Shane . . . High Noon . . .The Searchers . . .).
Well worth 50 minutes of my evening.
This site https://archive.org/ stores just about anything people upload to it. Kazillions of files, pictures, videos, audio files etc etc ....
It is not very easy to find stuff, but this archive is incredible.
Today I discovered the page linked below. It has 29 full length Godzilla movies and you can download any of them in several different file types suitable for playback on a laptop, tablet or cell phone.
https://archive.org/details/RecurringDinosaurInfestationFilms
This is a big deal for my fellow Godzilla junkies (although I already have all on DVDs I bought over the years).
But, aside from Godzilla, you would want to spend a few hours, days, weeks wandering around this place. Be patient, like I said it is not easy to find stuff, but it's not impossible either.
(XT-10 / 90mm M-Rokkor @ f4 / 3fps / unwashed window)