I have an advantage that only comes with age. I think there needs to be some sort of reward for growing old. Older folks seem to have it, at least for awhile. It is called wisdom. What that really means is having learned from life’s experience. It also means the ability of sharing that experience with others. The problem with wisdom is it must be earned through the passage of time, and experience. You can...
Continue reading...Wide Entertainment
I am not a big time TV watcher. Too much time can be lost in front of the “tube”. Guess what. They are not “tubes” any more. Well, the new ones are not. Gloria and I just purchased a new HD wide screen, 46 inch! No tube. The brand is Samsung, same brand as the 24 inch monitor I use on the home office computer. It is a LCD version and can run at the...
Continue reading...Vista Update & Energy
After the strenuous upgrade that took more than a week to accomplish, I can now report after many months of use that the MS Vista OS has been (operationally) quite stable and reliable. I always figured it would be, it had to be. Oh, all the other problems have not gone away. The OS has to be treated “special” by every piece of software that runs on or in the OS. It is a brave...
Continue reading...Got the Picture?
I have been working on a new project since last weekend. This time not in the machine shop. I am pretty good at photography and digital processing. I have developed (pun intended) a sideline converting wet process photo albums and photo collections into digital images and then producing a premium grade photo book publication. This sideline has been discussed previously in this blog. My daughter did a couple of albums from my (our) stay in Alaska, which...
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