From 9d297ea28065944d53870f380bfb546ceb47c381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:13:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] love boat, photography, fix images --- config.yaml | 6 +- content/blog/2022-01-23-photography.md | 137 ++++++++++++++ content/blog/2022-08-03-bicycling/index.md | 2 +- content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md | 1 - content/blog/2022-09-06-truck-bling/index.md | 2 +- content/blog/2023-01-24-love-boat/index.md | 176 ++++++++++++++++++ .../blog/2023-01-24-love-boat/you-joking.jpg | Bin 0 -> 19268 bytes content/papers/drwho/index.md | 20 -- content/toys/grepdict/index.md | 1 - content/toys/mastermind/index.md | 1 - content/toys/starship/index.md | 1 - layouts/_default/baseof.html | 4 +- static/assets/css/default.css | 8 + 13 files changed, 330 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/blog/2022-01-23-photography.md create mode 100644 content/blog/2023-01-24-love-boat/index.md create mode 100644 content/blog/2023-01-24-love-boat/you-joking.jpg delete mode 100644 content/papers/drwho/index.md diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml index 7861961..55bb320 100644 --- a/config.yaml +++ b/config.yaml @@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ baseURL: https://woozle.org/ disablePathToLower: true languageCode: en-us title: Neale Pickett -uglyurls: true + enableGitInfo: true markup: goldmark: renderer: unsafe: true + +# This breaks inline images +#uglyurls: true + diff --git a/content/blog/2022-01-23-photography.md b/content/blog/2022-01-23-photography.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a1a2a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022-01-23-photography.md @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +--- +title: Photography +date: 2023-01-23 +--- + +Downstairs, in our basement, +we have boxes and boxes of old photographs that we inherited. +We're not sure what's in the boxes: +we only have this vague notion that they're valuable, +because somebody spent time and money on them. + +This is a really lousy situation for us to be in. +What are we supposed to do with these? +Could they be useful someday to our grandchildren? +Is this just the output of somebody's hobby, +with little to no value to anyone else? +How many generations must hang on to these before it's okay to discard them? + +## Hobby photography over the years + +My grandparents would get one photograph taken of the whole family, +maybe every 10-20 years, +if you were lucky enough to have a traveling photographer drop by your house. +So you cherished that photograph, +and you thought about your great-grandchildren seeing this marvel of modern technology. +Most of the photos we have from this era +have hand-written notes recording the year, +the location, +the people involved, +and maybe some additional context like +"this house was built by Peter and his father in 1885". + +By the time my parents had disposable income, +you could get a camera for a reasonable amount of money. +The film cost money, +and getting prints developed cost money, +so they made sure everybody was lined up, +facing the camera, +and smiling, +before pressing the shutter button. +But because you could pop off 26 shots at a time, +and because the film would actually degrade if you didn't develop it quickly, +they took a lot more pictures. +They probably didn't have time to label all of them, +and anyway, that was just some dumb thing their parents did. + +My generation saw digital cameras pop up +right around the time we were shopping for more expensive cameras. +You could see the photo you took immediately, +so people would take another shot when they saw that somebody had their eyes closed. +We started taking more candid snapshots, +and we didn't sweat it when we accidentally photographed a shoe or something. +We had to stop thinking of one photo as being a sort of investment: +you could take 20 photos and then just pick the best one, +and there was no difference in cost. +Then, we stopped picking the best one, +because we were busy. + +## The problem with digital + +These boxes of prints downstairs have outlasted every hard drive I've ever owned. +And as someone whose job is reverse-engineering undocumented file formats, +I am not holding my breath that in 500 years anyone will know what to do with a JPEG, +much less a JPEG on a FAT32 file system on a SATA hard drive. +In fact I am pretty confident that the time we're living in +will come to be seen as a dark age, +about which little is known, +because people stopped writing things in places that were easy to preserve. + +We currently have 44,708 digital photos and videos: about 419 Gigabytes. +With a few exceptions of things I've scanned in from prints, +the oldest photos we have are from October 2000. +That's around 2000 photos every year, +once we had a baby and we really got going photographing every damn thing. + +There's a multi-year gap before that, +and there are holes after October 2000, +because I accidentally deleted the wrong directory. +Photos I took before around 1998 are downstairs in one of those boxes of prints. + +## Getting this under control + +Someday, +hopefully soon, +we're going to go through all 44,708 photos, +and file them away into a few categories: + +1. Photos we're going to make physical copies of, + and place in an album, + with some sort of annotation about why it's significant. +2. Photos/Videos we're going to group together, + along with some sort of annotation about why that group is significant. + This might be a photo album, + or maybe just a directory or box. +3. Photos/Videos we're going not going to do anything special to, + with a note that these are "just in case", + without any special meaning, + and our progeny can feel okay throwing them out. +4. Photos/Videos we don't want to keep at all. + +We're then going to have to sort through these hundreds of prints, +trying to decide +on behalf of our ancestors +why the photo was taken. +We'll have to file each one in the same categories. + +At the end of this, +we'll have actual photo books, +with written text explaining what's significant. +I hope this leaves future generations with a better situation +than the context-free boxes of prints that we inherited! + +## Why I'm doing this + +I love this old silver-gelatin print +of my grandfather's entire family. +They're all gathered in front of their 900 square-foot house, +with my grandfather showing off the family's new bicycle. +Also in the photo are the family dog, +and their cow. + +My hope is that +people in the future can pick up one of my albums, +spend a few minutes going through it, +and get a feel for what we looked like and how we lived. +They'll be encouraged to actually do that, +because of the *limited amount* of stuff, +the *easy interface* to viewing it (namely: posess eyes), +and the *context* I will have provided. + +As a result of thinking about this for so long, +I've noticed I stopped taking so many pictures. +A lot of the pictures I do take are sent immediately and not stored: +my great-grandchildren don't really need to see this burrito, +or our dog on the table. +Maybe eventually I'll get back to storing only a few dozen photos per year, +and the future albums will be very quick to put together. diff --git a/content/blog/2022-08-03-bicycling/index.md b/content/blog/2022-08-03-bicycling/index.md index 7b8dc01..4f1b335 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-08-03-bicycling/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2022-08-03-bicycling/index.md @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ drivetrain. But the rest of the bike is solid. Hopefully it helps that I use the front brake when I want to slow down in a hurry, no slamming back on the coaster brake for me. -![My Sladda](/assets/blog/Sladda.jpg) +![My Sladda](Sladda.jpg) diff --git a/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md b/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md index e8b2814..97c35de 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ --- date: "2022-09-04T00:00:00Z" title: Lights! ... -url: blog/2022-09-04-lights/ --- The kid has been gearing up to record an audition video for a dance company, diff --git a/content/blog/2022-09-06-truck-bling/index.md b/content/blog/2022-09-06-truck-bling/index.md index 38ab566..c654e1b 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-09-06-truck-bling/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2022-09-06-truck-bling/index.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ the friend soldered a bunch of stuff together, and we plugged it in. It friggin' worked! -{{< video src="truck-bling.m4v" text="Pickup truck with color-changing ground effects">}} +{{