Archive for January, 2010

My Digital Slide Copier

During our Christmas visit to Arizona, Katie and I pulled out all of Katie’s parents’ old slides and enjoyed an old school slideshow, including the circa 1970 Honewell slide projector, dog eared slides, and a lot of manual effort. I really want to digitize many of these slides, especially some of the early Katie photos. [...]

Pure Energy

My fascination with energy consumption is a long time coming, and I think I’m now arriving at a new level of need for information. OK, it’s not need, really. It’s intrigue. I’ve taken energy consumption measurements of most every household device that I own and I’ve even been tracking my monthly energy bills, year on [...]

“Perfect Mixes Come Automatically”

Note, first off, that the way I organize my MP3′s is that I only copy my favorite songs from an album. So, for example, if I had the “4 Non Blondes” CD, I would obviously only have in my library “What’s Up” and not the 10 other songs. My goal, then, is to make it [...]

Old Songs for a New Year

I was planning on posting my “Best of 2009″ lists for music, but kept on getting stalled by a daughter a lack of content. Musically, 2009 wasn’t a great year for me… there were only a few albums I really got excited about, and over half of them weren’t even released in 2009. Since the [...]