Rocket Science

It’s been a long time since I played a paper-based RPG, but a recent BigBearButt blog post lead me to this comic.

So, I’ve been doing a bit of organizing and realized that I didn’t have a backup for my photos scanned in 2000-2002. It took me about an hour to copy the photos from the PhotoCDs to my hard drive, and then make duplicate copies on a couple of hard drives. All in all a good idea.

An interesting observation…There were something like 44 rolls of 35mm film I had scanned during the photo developing process. Guess how much space all of those photos take up? About 540MB.

Now adays, the photos from my digital camera use that much space for the equivalent of 8 rolls of film. Of course my new photos are 3456 × 2304 instead of 1536 × 1024, so about 4 times bigger pixel-wise. And, at the time the photo developers scanned those photos, I’m sure they figured they were giving the customers way more than they needed. (Of course each PhotoCD only used 20% of it’s capacity so they could’ve included much higher resolution scans.)

Just an interesting observation.

Here’s a recent splog post using content from this website.

I was surfing around the other day, and saw this job posting (no I’m not looking for a new job).

For those of you that don’t know Inglewood, California:

• The Los Angeles Lakers used to play at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood.
• Hollywood Park is in Inglewood.
• Inglewood is pretty close to Watts and Compton
• My dad grew up in Inglewood, and my grandparents used to run a great plant nursery there (that’s long since closed down).
• But I would never think of running a dotcom there.

…I just watched a commercial for Idaho potatoes on TV.

(Uh, why is the Idaho Potatoe Commission running TV ads?)