Monthly Archives: August 2006

Packing up to go back to school at the end of a long, lazy summer is very disheartening. I’ve been running around my house, humming sad songs and carrying load after load of loose clothes into my car. I’m planning … Continue reading →

I went into NYC today with Paul to visit Adira and Rebecca. We parked in a permit-only lot that my mother informed me was not really permit-only and took the train in. Since Adira and Rebecca both live near Union … Continue reading →

It’s dangerous, but things seem to be working around here. My video editing is going exactly as planned (thanks to Avidemux) and my photoplotter films have allowed me to make my prototype window actually display the desired effect. It’s an … Continue reading →

Of the 15 or so tapes we started with, only one is left that has not been transferred to DVD. I should be able to transfer it tonight; we will then proceed to phase 2, in which I chop up … Continue reading →

I can hardly remember a time before my days were consumed by the eternal struggle between myself and my opponent, the Matrox Marvel G400 we bought at a tag sale when I was in high school. I’d heard it said … Continue reading →

I find that it’s important to write with moderation on this weblog, because proportion and scale tend to be distorted through the grapevine. I recall writing that I had a put a scratch on my car, only to have my … Continue reading →

For the past few years, the family computer has sat in the middle of our family room, trailing wires across the floor, making most of the cabinets inoperative, and generally being the least ergonomic imaginable arrangement. Now it sits prettily … Continue reading →

IKEA is scary. I just went today for the first time, and it’s indescribable. It’s a little like making first contact with an alien race obsessed with efficiency. These aliens do not seem to have grasped the concept of a … Continue reading →

My instructions on how to scan pictures appear to have passed the test, and several envelopes now lie in our “scanned photos” box. I’m not sure I’ve really managed to convey the sense of the system to my mother, who’ll … Continue reading →

We have a lot of photos. I don’t know exactly how many; I estimate 3-7 thousand. They’re taking up a lot of room, in drawers so disorganized that we have feared to open them for years. Recently we’ve talked about … Continue reading →