New "fail" icon, and being mortal...
Jan. 16th, 2022 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI wrote this part on Friday:
I've been doing some random Photoshopping lately. I just made this new icon from the 12/27/21 installment of 3eanuts, which itself was made from the Peanuts strip published on January 11, 1954. Because the world is a strange and ever-shifting place, but the agony of self-imposed failure hasn't changed in the last sixty-eight years.
I don't really have a fail to talk about, unless you count my unaccountable failure to stop Bantam Cider from going out of business last year and taking my favorite cider out with it -- I've been meaning to complain about that.
I did read Being Mortal after about a million recommendations for it. I'd have to summarize: read it, but also go and read The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70 at the same time. And actually, maybe pick it up in the middle and read from there? The first half is mostly about the depressing shit that happens if you don't do the stuff in the second half, and I can see how it motivates but also how it could keep a reader from even getting to the good parts. Fact that will stick with me: the 60-year-old retina receives 1/3 the light received by a 20-year-old retina under the same conditions? UGH. Sign me right up for that lens replacement I'm gonna need in my 50s anyway.
I have a box from legacybox.com on the way to me for digitizing a bunch of my old family photos. I could probably just destroy them but I've always figured I shouldn't until my parents both pass away, or that maybe some cousin would want them. At least I can transmogrify the clunky old books into a thumb drive, plus probably some space in the cloud.
And I'm finishing up on Sunday:
This weekend has been mostly devoted to a) squirreling about and b) reading My Dark Vanessa from cover to cover in less than 24 hours. Helios wanted to learn to make a pie, and had never rolled out dough of any kind before, so yesterday I acted as sous chef and pie mentor with the result of an excellent First Apple Pie. Though we learned that we vented it insufficiently, and thus got liquid in the bottom (I've been doing lattice-top etc for long enough to have forgotten this problem).
I've sorted my photos in roughly chronological order through college, which means the emotionally hard ones are done. From now on they're all the same size and depict reasonable living conditions.
I've been doing some random Photoshopping lately. I just made this new icon from the 12/27/21 installment of 3eanuts, which itself was made from the Peanuts strip published on January 11, 1954. Because the world is a strange and ever-shifting place, but the agony of self-imposed failure hasn't changed in the last sixty-eight years.
I don't really have a fail to talk about, unless you count my unaccountable failure to stop Bantam Cider from going out of business last year and taking my favorite cider out with it -- I've been meaning to complain about that.
I did read Being Mortal after about a million recommendations for it. I'd have to summarize: read it, but also go and read The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70 at the same time. And actually, maybe pick it up in the middle and read from there? The first half is mostly about the depressing shit that happens if you don't do the stuff in the second half, and I can see how it motivates but also how it could keep a reader from even getting to the good parts. Fact that will stick with me: the 60-year-old retina receives 1/3 the light received by a 20-year-old retina under the same conditions? UGH. Sign me right up for that lens replacement I'm gonna need in my 50s anyway.
I have a box from legacybox.com on the way to me for digitizing a bunch of my old family photos. I could probably just destroy them but I've always figured I shouldn't until my parents both pass away, or that maybe some cousin would want them. At least I can transmogrify the clunky old books into a thumb drive, plus probably some space in the cloud.
And I'm finishing up on Sunday:
This weekend has been mostly devoted to a) squirreling about and b) reading My Dark Vanessa from cover to cover in less than 24 hours. Helios wanted to learn to make a pie, and had never rolled out dough of any kind before, so yesterday I acted as sous chef and pie mentor with the result of an excellent First Apple Pie. Though we learned that we vented it insufficiently, and thus got liquid in the bottom (I've been doing lattice-top etc for long enough to have forgotten this problem).
I've sorted my photos in roughly chronological order through college, which means the emotionally hard ones are done. From now on they're all the same size and depict reasonable living conditions.
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Date: 2022-04-05 09:16 pm (UTC)Sorry to necro an old post, but how did/is legacybox working out for you? As I'm working through the piles of ~junk~ memories left about the house, I've found several boxes of old photos & negatives, in addition to hours of miniDV cassettes. I could probably digitize this all myself with equipment from the library, but if I can just pay someone to do it, that sounds much better. I think mostly I'm worried that they will be sloppy and I will be picky.
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Date: 2022-04-06 09:32 pm (UTC)more I feel some nice breathing roomm... in my ideal world they just lose them in the couch cushions. So I'm probably not the typical customer.
If they ever get around to returning them, I'm happy to let you look at the digital versions to see what you think of the quality.