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Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
Family Photo Archive, a.k.a. Scanning odd film formats
As I think I may have mentioned before, I’ve become my family’s Family Photo Archivist, scanning in decades and decades of prints, film negatives and slides, and trying to get them in a web-based solution where everyone else in the family who is so inclined can access them for viewing, printing, and also to assist…
For all your oriental rug cleaning needs…
Just one call to Joe Hadeed. Now if I could only find the jingle for McKay’s Food Store in Southern Maryland.
The Thin Man (1934)
Delightful murder mystery solved by a lush of an ex-detective and his wife. Fun dialogue reminiscent of Howard Hawkes films.
3rd Party Sellers on Amazon
I haven’t bought a ton of stuff through 3rd-party sellers on Amazon (I mainly try to stay with things that are eligible for Amazon Prime, since I’ve subscribed to that.) What little I have done, I’ve never really had any problems with. Just a couple of weeks ago, however, I ordered this replacement Nikon BM-5…
HD Formats
I was just thinking about various consumer and pro HD formats now in common use for both production and delivery, and tried to rank them according to perceived quality (in terms of capacity to retain detail and color information). What other formats am I missing? What do you disagree with? The notations in parentheses indicate…
Chiptunes
Since we moved house last year, I’ve played a fair amount of Rock Band with the kids, which has kept my occasional urge to compose music at bay; but I haven’t even unpacked my keyboard/controller in all this time, and I’ve been starting to feel really bad about it. So, I decided, hey, it’s been…