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limelight79

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  • This is the dude who took a dom-jot cue to the chest and laughed

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  • I think he laughed the first time, too. Pretty sure he said it in the episode with the Pakleds while cruising in the shuttle with Wesley.

  • Sometimes it's not all bad...

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  • This is an interesting spelling of "burger".

  • MFW getting off the plane in Phoenix this morning for spring break

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  • Related:"Sky Harbor" is an excellent name for an airport. It conjured up images of a futuristic airport that I was really looking forward to.

    The actual airport was a letdown. It was fine, but nothing really special.

    I visited Phoenix and Tucson in March (years ago), it was nice then.

  • Deaf woman removed from Frontier flight for "not listening"

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  • I use Arch, by the way.

    (I don't, I used Debian. It just fit.)

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Damn, aps support?! I assume you have to take the negatives out of the cartridge.

    There's a seller on ebay that 3D prints negative holders for the scanner I have, so for example I could scan the 110 cartridge (not the really old roll film) negatives I have. I wonder if he makes one to do APS.

    But on the other hand, the APS camera I had was cheap, point and shoot, and the prints came back with a note that they were severely overexposed, so it probably wasn't even working correctly. Not much point in spending money to save some forgettable shots of a local river.

  • Trump tells South Korea he is only leader who can break North Korean deadlock

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  • Oh he can break the deadlock all right, no question there. The question is what happens after it's broken. It's probably not going to be good for South Korea. Remember how much he likes Kim Jong Un.

  • So pleased

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  • It works for your cat. It wouldn't work for our cat that doesn't eat treats, for example.

  • Hegseth Goes to War Against Photographers Taking Bad Pictures of Him

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  • Guarantee an hour or more of his day is spent in front of a mirror, every day.

    Not surprising, considering his previous job was a talking head on Fox or something like that. Which, in what's left of Trump's mind, makes him totally qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.

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  • Yeah. I don't remember how many of the pictures I scanned were prints, but it was quite a few, maybe close to 1,000. As I said, just watched TV and did it. It's pretty mindless once you get into the groove doing it.

    Like I said before, I did try to find the negatives and scan those instead when possible. Better quality and more efficient. But for quite a few, no negatives. I also had to take pictures out of frames and stuff like that. My parents wedding picture was in a cardboard frame I had to disassemble carefully...

  • I thought those only existed in fiction!

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  • She's gone from suck to blow!

  • Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

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  • They're aware, I'm sure, but there isn't much they can do about it if they need to park there. Even Home Depot and Lowe's have this issue.

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  • I have an Epson scanner, though I'd have to check the exact model. The one I have has the light so I can scan negatives or prints, but if you're only doing prints you wouldn't need that feature.

    I used Vuescan to do it. Paid software, but none of the open source options were as smooth for high volume scanning (this was some years ago, so that might have changed). Vuescan did a pretty good job of adjusting colors and all automatically after the scan. It was worth the money for the time savings alone.

    Basically just sit there, load the print, hit scan, wait, remove the print, repeat. You'll learn the sound of the scanner when it's returning to the top of the glass, at which point the print is safe to remove even if the software is still processing. That saves a little time.

    It's tedious, no question. Scanning negatives is better because you can get up to six in one shot. Get a second negative holder and you can have one scanning while you're setting up the other one. It took me months and months.

    Also consider culling the pictures you scan. Did I need to scan all of those rolls of the bridge construction? Nah.

    Edit - your comment has me thinking, I need work in winter time. Maybe this could be a side job...

  • Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

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  • I do, but I know you're just trying to gatekeep.

    Well, not a boat, a 30' Airstream. And I haul a ton of pellets several times each year. I also find myself moving heavy or large items throughout the year with it. No, you can't really rent one to do those things like everyone claims - or the rentals would cost as much as owning the pickup would.

  • Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

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  • I read a while back that many of them were shocked the cyber truck didn't fit in regular parking spaces. In other words, these are people that, for the most part, have never owned a large pickup before. The obvious conclusion is that they bought it for cred or because they think it looks cool, not because they actually need a vehicle that size.

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  • They go so far to avoid the dreaded, "I don't know."

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  • Our cleaners are wizards at pulling the optical audio cable out of our sound bar or television. It's not too short or anything like that, but it's happened at least half the times they have been here. And it's behind the sound bar and television. I can't figure out why it's always that specific cable. Plenty of others nearby.

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  • Should've called me, we have several of those cables around. And that's after culling the herd of those cables we used to have!

    Oh we should start a community for, "I need this cable..." where we can all help each other out!

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  • Some years back I embarked on a project to scan my parents pictures. I think there were over 4,000 until I was done. I don't remember the ratio, but there were some negatives and some prints. Oh and trying to unduplicate (this picture is a print of this negative) was a bear, because the prints and pictures had sometimes gotten separated.

    I set up the scanner in the living room and worked on it while we were watching TV. It took months, but I did it.

    Then I did my in-laws' pictures, who didn't have nearly as many, fortunately. And they were better organized to start, so that felt like a walk in the park by comparison.

    I noticed my parents took a ton of pictures of my older brothers, but very few of me... But there were a ton of pictures of the bridge construction next to their house... Hmmm!

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  • I think he meant he kept 80 TB of storage.