Trouble with Scanner

The great pho­to dig­i­tiz­ing project has hit a snag. I start­ed work­ing on “fix­ing up” the pho­tos that I had scanned in last week. First up was this pic­ture of Jim’s par­ents Bill and Bet­ty on their wed­ding day. (Too cute, no?) … 

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new toys

I’ve been busy acquir­ing, set­ting up, and occa­sion­al­ly curs­ing a batch of new toys. The dread­ed yel­low line scan­ner has been evict­ed and in it’s place is a new Microtek i900. So far it and I are get­ting along pret­ty well. … 

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Trivia I Need

ColourLovers post­ed a list of all 120 Cray­ola cray­on col­ors and their (approx­i­mate) hex and RGB codes. The list was com­plied by Aaron at Col​orSchemer​.com. I am now going to waste sev­er­al hours cre­at­ing a cus­tom Pho­to­shop palette of these … 

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Housekeeping

A few months ago I moved some things — includ­ing the files for this blog — around on the servers. It all seemed to go just fine — until… I upgrad­ed the word­press installs. All the old­er image links broke. Luck­i­ly I fig­ured out just how … 

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Clouds

Word clouds are a fun way of find­ing out what’s real­ly on your (blog’s) mind. The Gen­er­a­tor Blog point­ed to Wor­dle this morn­ing and I’ve been hav­ing fun mak­ing clouds for var­i­ous blogs I read/write. Here’s one based on ms. shoes: … 

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The Things You See in the Woods

For Christ­mas this year we got our­selves a cou­ple of game cama­ras so that we could get a bet­ter look at the ani­mals ( includ­ing neigh­bors) who are using the net­work of trails that goes through our woods. (Peo­ple out … 

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