Simply random stuff

[DuncanS]

Well Ralphie those dastardly garden gnomes have gone too far this time..................

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Well Ralphie those dastardly garden gnomes have gone too far this time..................

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Oh yes... me and my daughters, grand daughters will have a watch party for this. Cheese & crackers. Scones & biscuits with jelly, Earl Gray tea.

 

[Bruce00]

Well, guess who found their phone this morning
Talk about a stress reliever

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Well, guess who found their phone this morning
Talk about a stress reliever

Where was it? Between the couch cushions???

 

[esimms86]

Where was it? Between the couch cushions???

He found it when he was looking for Aretha Franklin’s Will.

 

[esimms86]

Smart phones are nothing new, phone style may have changed a wee bit since the mid-late-60s though!

View attachment 111996 Loved Get Smart as a kid, yep we even got it on this side of the pond!

As much as I loved Barbara Feldon in the “straight man” role of 99, no one will touch the brilliance of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel!

 

[esimms86]

Well, guess who found their phone this morning
Talk about a stress reliever

Bruce Almighty!

 

[Sonik Wiz]

As much as I loved Barbara Feldon in the “straight man” role of 99, no one will touch the brilliance of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel!

99 vs '69. Lets enter to the Hell Fire Club!

 

[bsco]

just wishing everybody a Merry Christmas......and a Happy New Year.......

 

[Bruce00]

Where was it? Between the couch cushions???

On my front porch against the wall behind an four 8 packs of PowerAde. I was a couple hrs away from ordering a new S24........Not having a phone is a killer

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

The worst feeling in the world is going back to old family photos and videos on film for digitization...and running into rot.

 

[Bruce00]

The worst feeling in the world is going back to old family photos and videos on film for digitization...and running into rot.

Oh man, Iam truly sorry to hear this. How old were the films?

I've got 4 reels of Super 8 videos from 1972 Daytona Bike week and have always said I was going to have them digitize, to watch again. Maybe I should rethink this, as I have enough disappointments in my life now

 

[jimfisheye]

The worst feeling in the world is going back to old family photos and videos on film for digitization...and running into rot.

How about reading in an old project from Protools HD days (15-20 years ago) and the saved file path from the handful of missing files ends with "Desktop/"!
(When Protools would crash it would often reset to defaults. Default file save path was your Desktop folder. When you didn't catch that... The overdubs that day went to the desktop folder instead of the project folder that was dutifully archived.)

Is "Protools" on the swear word list for the webpage? Should be!

 

[Bruce00]

MY Rhino order from 12/6 was shipped in 3 separate deliveries. Tusk and Gene Rafferty vinyls, each shipped separately both came from 1 Viper Place, and arrived in excellent shape.....BUT.....Not a word on my Joni Mitchell Quadio's and trying Rhinos order history says "In Progress"

On the other hand, ordered a few SACD's from the other side of the world, ordered 12/14 and arrived 12/22

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Oh man, Iam truly sorry to hear this. How old were the films?

Some as recent as the 2000s...let's just say they were not stored in a very film friendly location.

Most are surprisingly fine, just a few damaged ones here and there.

 

[marpow]

When they go, I guess they go.
My home PC laptop just doesn't function well anymore.
The main thing is the constant refresh I have to do.
I have had 3 PC Tune Ups from my Best Buy account in the last 6 weeks and it just isn't good.
Windows 10- 8 years old, but I loved it.
Now all this Windows 11 updates threats, etc I just said, well it's not working well anymore so dive in and get a new PC.
MY NEW DELL
This will be fine, I don't need a lot.

 

[barfle]

The worst feeling in the world is going back to old family photos and videos on film for digitization...and running into rot.

I have a dozen or so VHS tapes that I’m hoping against hope that I can find a deck that will play them so I can digitize them. They didn’t play last time I tried (looks like mostly weak control tracks, IIRC).

When my mom passed away last April, I found a stack of boxes of photos anout three feet high. A lot of them are in good shape, but a lot are duplicates. I intend to go through them, weed out the dupes, send them to siblings and digitize the best copies in at least 4k resolution. Couple of years, that one.

 

[H.A.L.]

The real origin of Rudolph's nose. Merry Christmas all!

 

[Rstaylor]

I have a dozen or so VHS tapes that I’m hoping against hope that I can find a deck that will play them so I can digitize them. They didn’t play last time I tried (looks like mostly weak control tracks, IIRC).

When my mom passed away last April, I found a stack of boxes of photos anout three feet high. A lot of them are in good shape, but a lot are duplicates. I intend to go through them, weed out the dupes, send them to siblings and digitize the best copies in at least 4k resolution. Couple of years, that one.

Are your VHS tapes home movies?
I found that my home videos always looked better when played back through the camcorder that they were recorded on. I had totally forgot about that when I sold the camcorder many years ago.
I just recently picked up a nearly identical one at a thrift store. Haven't tried it out yet, but I'm hoping it plays like my old one.
I always preferred the manual tracking control over the automatic tracking.