I (and others) read and contribute to these forums for the information, not for watching forumers get chippy with one another.

I'm here for both.

Quiet, Mexican.

 

Darling, you're confusing me with Avogadro. Calling me Mexican is only slightly better than calling me a Platano.

 

I'm an American citizen, just like both of my parents!

 

Okay by me, Rita Moreno.

 

I (and others) read and contribute to these forums for the information, not for watching forumers get chippy with one another.

 

 

 

Then you might want to avoid the Off Topic thread

^Chippiness if a part of being Off Topic, no?

Sure.... and anyone who has dealt with Cleveland RTA would say it is a part of that too ;)

We bring quality racism to these forums.

Someone in my old dorm asked me if I wanted to go to a "Plain White Ts" concert. I said what the hell, I'll go. I thought for sure it was going to be a rap group! Imagine my surprise.

Damn Emmie, you just registered 7 days ago and you're already at 279'-First Energy Center (aka 29 posts).  Good lord, that's dedication!

I like eating at the MediCare Lounge, so there's at least one for you.

Oh lord.  The only good thing at the MCL is the jello.

awww hail, ay buddy knowz thar haint no g-d bb-freakin-q worth a day-uum in the dfw metroplex son!!!!

Someone in my old dorm asked me if I wanted to go to a "Plain White Ts" concert. I said what the hell, I'll go. I thought for sure it was going to be a rap group! Imagine my surprise.

 

Hope you had a good time with all the 16 year old girls.  But not too good a time.

I've been a busy girl lately!  Thinking about moving, then signing a lease, etc.  I'm uber excited to be moving, can't wait to try out the neighborhood bar, etc.  Any suggestions would be appreciate, although I know this isn't the place for that!

Someone in my old dorm asked me if I wanted to go to a "Plain White Ts" concert. I said what the hell, I'll go. I thought for sure it was going to be a rap group! Imagine my surprise.

 

Hope you had a good time with all the 16 year old girls.  But not too good a time.

 

God, it was terrible. Worst concert I've ever been to. I only went because it was a free ticket; I'm always up for trying something new.

Someone in my old dorm asked me if I wanted to go to a "Plain White Ts" concert. I said what the hell, I'll go. I thought for sure it was going to be a rap group! Imagine my surprise.

 

Hope you had a good time with all the 16 year old girls. But not too good a time.

 

God, it was terrible. Worst concert I've ever been to. I only went because it was a free ticket; I'm always up for trying something new.

 

Not trusting anything out of Lombard, IL

I've been a busy girl lately!  Thinking about moving, then signing a lease, etc.  I'm uber excited to be moving, can't wait to try out the neighborhood bar, etc.  Any suggestions would be appreciate, although I know this isn't the place for that!

 

Suggestion No. 1 - Get your own avatar!

I've been a busy girl lately! Thinking about moving, then signing a lease, etc. I'm uber excited to be moving, can't wait to try out the neighborhood bar, etc. Any suggestions would be appreciate, although I know this isn't the place for that!

 

Suggestion No. 1 - Get your own avatar!

 

Yeah, you b!tches need to step off my tip!

Man MTS gets back from whatever holiday he was celebrating for the past week and things get mixed up quicker than basket of cupcakes at a Weight Watchers meeting.

Man MTS gets back from whatever holiday he was celebrating for the past week and things get mixed up quicker than basket of cupcakes at a Weight Watchers meeting.

 

ROFLMAO!  You all know you love the comedy!

I'm trying to figure out how to change the avatar, and come up with something awesome!  Give me some time, jeez!  :-D

I'm trying to figure out how to change the avatar, and come up with something awesome!  Give me some time, jeez!  ;D

 

Don't sweat it, Emmie.  MTS is just a "mean girl"

Plus, he's off his meds today.

Great.... now I have to give both of you the hose again!

 

Don't sweat it, Emmie.  MTS is just a "mean girl"

 

internet theft.  Somehow someone at - Kohl's - got my pin number to my bank card and purchased close to 15k worth of sh!t! over the past 2 months.

 

Folks check your banks statements regularly.

 

That is crazy.  Most of that should be insured or something, right?  This is why i don't use banks or cards or any of that stuff. 

 

They took of this immediately.  After further examination, I realized I never "opened" the envelope or activated a bank card for this bank.  I dont even use bank cards.

 

 

Anyone remember that Mystikal song, Shake it fast? or (Shake Ya Ass)  Someone at work has had that as their ringtone fro the past two months or so....just the first part of the song with the synth clarinets only.  Cracks me up every time it goes off.

rofl

great avatar, i freakin love drawing him. 

 

 

akron hates you! lol

ol boy should have said "build a statue of me in your downtown and i'll stay"

What is up with people in Cincinnati blowing red lights when the light changed when they were more than 20 yards from the light? I mean not even stopping...just kind of saying "Whatever its good". I saw it again for the 4th time this week. One of these times I am going to see someone get T boned. Ugh.

Do you see the bit of irony coming from a poster with "Detroit" in the screenname?  You know, the city where driving is like walking on marbles.  Lord, the stories I could tell...

Do you see the bit of irony coming from a poster with "Detroit" in the screenname? You know, the city where driving is like walking on marbles. Lord, the stories I could tell...

 

Yeah, we have some issues of our own...mainly my favorite driving maneuver of all time the "5 lane change in 5 seconds" move. Also called "The Oh $#!t I need to get off this exit right now" move. I love watching people cut across 5 lanes on 75 from the far left lane to the exit ramp with no turn signal and even drive on the median and grass on the side of the freeway to get on that exit ramp.

 

Oh and tailgating going 85 in the right lane...that would be another one of the Detroit issues :D At least I am being honest.

I seen some fool downtown bust through a red light on central the other day like it was nothin.  Didn't even slow down. 

I resent being called a "fool," tool!

Do you see the bit of irony coming from a poster with "Detroit" in the screenname? You know, the city where driving is like walking on marbles. Lord, the stories I could tell...

 

Yeah, we have some issues of our own...mainly my favorite driving maneuver of all time the "5 lane change in 5 seconds" move. Also called "The Oh $#!t I need to get off this exit right now" move. I love watching people cut across 5 lanes on 75 from the far left lane to the exit ramp with no turn signal and even drive on the median and grass on the side of the freeway to get on that exit ramp.

 

Oh and tailgating going 85 in the right lane...that would be another one of the Detroit issues :D At least I am being honest.

 

Indeed you are.  I saw this woman in a white Cobalt crash into a wooden soundwall along I-75 down around Allen Road after she hit a pot hole the size of Guadalajara and this bitch walked out of that car like a soldier from the Iraq War.  She didn't give a fvck with her 4-Kool-Aid wraps in her hair and T-Boz front cut.

Do you see the bit of irony coming from a poster with "Detroit" in the screenname?  You know, the city where driving is like walking on marbles.  Lord, the stories I could tell...

 

Yeah, we have some issues of our own...mainly my favorite driving maneuver of all time the "5 lane change in 5 seconds" move. Also called "The Oh $#!t I need to get off this exit right now" move. I love watching people cut across 5 lanes on 75 from the far left lane to the exit ramp with no turn signal and even drive on the median and grass on the side of the freeway to get on that exit ramp.

 

Oh and tailgating going 85 in the right lane...that would be another one of the Detroit issues :D At least I am being honest.

 

Indeed you are.  I saw this woman in a white Cobalt crash into a wooden soundwall along I-75 down around Allen Road after she hit a pot hole the size of Guadalajara and this bitch walked out of that car like a soldier from the Iraq War.  She didn't give a fvck with her 4-Kool-Aid wraps in her hair and T-Boz front cut.

 

LOL.

 

 

OK....gotta jet.  I get to play Gordan Priestly-Ewing-Carrington and make grown men in suits simultaneously cry and pee on themselves!  >:D >:D

 

My Grandfather is riot!  He and my Grandmother are in LA with my parents.

 

He calls and thing no. 2 lets out loud laugh, IC's and say, "loco abuelo - line 1.  Put him on speaker!"  He and Thing No. 1 plop down on my couch.

 

the conversation

 

Pops:  Skippy...you there....  That Puerto Rican mother of yours is trying to kill me.

Me:  What are you talking about?

 

Pops: She coming, I'm going into your closet.  Me..in your closet... get it?  Thats funny!  Shhh..I can hear the clicking of those over priced High heeled shoes!

Me:  ::)  Hello?  Pops what are you doing?

 

Pops:  Boy didn't I just say I hiding in the closet.  How did you get that executive job of yours if you can't remember something I told you not two minutes ago?!  I wonder why they haven't fired you?  You know you can be a little evil, you get that from the General.  They probably haven't fired you 'cause they are scared of you or something. Anyway.....

 

[in the background I can hear Mom calling for him to come eat and something else.]

 

Pops:  If I have to eat one more meal made of Turkey I'm going to snap like a battered woman!  Your Momma has made a meal centered around Turkey or Pork for breakfast lunch and dinner every day this week.  Can a brotha catch a break? 

 

Listen hear, we went to a mall two hours away from here [south Coast Plaza] and we went to every damn store.  The woman acts like she never saw a shopping mall before.  She got dressed up all fancy to go to the mall.  The damn mall!

 

When we get to the mall, I swear I've never seen so much plastic surgery in my life.  Everything one of these white people is artifical, how much do you want to bet their personalities are implants?

 

Me:  (laughing hysterically)  Good bye!

LOL, he sounds awesome.

 

I agree with the turkey-for-every-meal thing, goddamn! The last bit of my turkey made its way into a pasta sauce. Turkey pasta sauce!!!

LOL, he sounds awesome.

 

I agree with the turkey-for-every-meal thing, goddamn! The last bit of my turkey made its way into a pasta sauce. Turkey pasta sauce!!!

 

My grand father is trip!

 

My mom over cooks during the holidays.  I was sick of Turkey salads, sandwiches, when I left LA on Wednesday.

So I just bought The Inuit Sessions on vinyl.  It was Circa Survive's first EP and the EP itself was limited to 3000 copies and apparently the PINK vinyl was limited to 1000 copies.  I am so happy haha.  Any Circa Survive/Anthony Green fans on UO??

I found some old bottles in the attic!

 

The clear one seems to be from the Illinois Glass Factory between 1915 and 1929.

The brown one looks like its from the Brockway bottle company, from 1925 onward.

Please clean them up and post pics! I love that stuff.

 

You know, if you look up the serial number on the bottles, online, you might be able to find out exactly what they are and when they were produced. Serial number is usually on the bottom.

 

Do any of them still have the labels on them?

no labels, and no serial numbers. from what little research i've done this evening they are all from the 1920's and 1930's most likely. They have seams, but there are small bubbles in the glass. Give me your email through a personal message and I'll email you the full size pictures. I'm too lazy tonight to resize and post on here.

 

Sure thing. I'll shoot you a pm. I'd be glad to help you research them, see if I can find anything on them. No markings at all?

Well, just got about all my photos I've ever taken backed up and organized.  Some were buried deep with folder, within folders, within folders, within folders within folders within folders.....  Of course those folders weren't any specific name or anything.  Just a complete mess. 

 

My music is next.  I have no clue how much.  One giant block is around 40,000.  I got alot of it from my friends, and they didn't do much to organize either.  The rest is scattered from CD's I've ripped into my computer and at least 15 iTunes libraries of purchased music.  Anyone know some good automated sorting programs for music?

 

Getting nervous though, I'm well over half way filling up this 1 TB hard drive.  I was hoping that eventually by the time that filled up 10 TB drives would be out on the market lol.  Once I finish sorting everything entirely, I'll purchase another 1 TB, duplicate it and store it in a safe location in the event the current one gets damaged or fails. 

 

Once that is done, I'll just donate/give away the other drives, but use one for work since my HD space is filling quickly (as well as allocated server space)

EDIT, nvm, didn't realize iTunes can sort them automatically.  That was easy.  As for the other hard drive I intend to bring to work, any tech people here know if you can spilt the USB/firewire cable between multiple PC towers to just one hard drive, or do you need to use NAS drive?  Since I do alot of 3D Animation / Video I need to be transfering data between towers in single file sizes up to 4 GB

Well, just got about all my photos I've ever taken backed up and organized.  Some were buried deep with folder, within folders, within folders, within folders within folders within folders.....  Of course those folders weren't any specific name or anything.  Just a complete mess. 

 

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Getting nervous though, I'm well over half way filling up this 1 TB hard drive.  I was hoping that eventually by the time that filled up 10 TB drives would be out on the market lol.  Once I finish sorting everything entirely, I'll purchase another 1 TB, duplicate it and store it in a safe location in the event the current one gets damaged or fails. 

 

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Sounds like a monumental undertaking, and I can relate well. I have a 1TB SATA mirrored pair in my desktop system, with a mirrored 1TB USB external continuous backup, and I've used up about half my available space while at least a couple thousand 35mm and 120 roll-film negs remain unscanned, along with a comparable number of 35mm slides. I'll be lucky to get everything archived and organized in my lifetime.

 

Then there are a couple thousand very good slides my dad took, that Mom was about to throw out in the early stages of her dementia, and several hundred slides that my aunt took of our family in the 1940s and 50s when my brothers and I were little kids.

Speaking of which, what is the best way to scan slides? Do I need special equipment / software? I know I can google this, but since you brought it up, I figured you've done the homework already.

 

My dad was a bit of an amateur photographer in his day, and he has thousands of slides he's taken over the years. Not to mention miles of 9mm film. I'm looking at a lifetime of work transferring these over, aren't I?

happy 90th birthday to Dave Brubeck!

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (1961)

Speaking of which, what is the best way to scan slides? Do I need special equipment / software? I know I can google this, but since you brought it up, I figured you've done the homework already.

 

My dad was a bit of an amateur photographer in his day, and he has thousands of slides he's taken over the years. Not to mention miles of 9mm film. I'm looking at a lifetime of work transferring these over, aren't I?

 

OK. I'll try to keep this from getting too long-winded, as I'm prone to do. It's been said of me that if you ask me what time it is, I'll tell you how to make a watch. So be warned.

 

I have both 35mm and 120mm negatives and positives, including mounted 35mm slides. I have the Nikon SuperCoolscan 9000ED, a superb machine that can produce results that in my opinion are comparable to drum scanners costing $10K. I bought it a few years ago and will continue to use it so long as it continues to perform. The reasons I won't buy another Nikon scanner, unless they change their direction and policy, are these; I think Nikon soon will discontinue film scanner production and support because they haven't and don't plan to release 64-bit drivers, and haven't updpated drivers since the early days of Vista; and there are other scanners now on the market that do a very good job for a lot less money; and the 9000ED is painfully slow when scanning color negs at the maximum 4,000dpi resolution. The 9000ED set me back about $2K. The Nikon scanners, while indisputably of high quality, are expensive and slow and may have a limited future so far as driver support goes.

 

If I were buying now, I'd probably buy the Epson V750-M Pro, about $850 MSRP. It's a flatbed scanner capable of handling both documents and negatives/transparencies up to at least 4X5, probably larger, with resolution and dynamic range at least comparable to the Nikon scanners, although I haven't checked into the detailed specs. It incorporates Digital ICE, which gives it the capability to remove dust and scratches from color slides and negs (but not black & white - I'll explain later), automatically compensate color fading and shifts due to aging of slides & negs, and manage the effects of grain as part of the scanning process without degrading the image sharpness and resolution. Digital ICE, in my opinion, is an essential feature in order to produce quality scans of old slides and negatives without laborious, time-consuming retouching and correcting in Photoshop.

 

The next step down from that is the V700, about $600 MSRP, comparable in many respects to the V750-M except that it has a less expensive lens. I know a couple of very discerning photographers who have inherited vintage negative collections shot with high-quality cameras, and they've been getting excellent results with it.

 

Sort of a sidebar to the topic; why Digital ICE won't remove dust and scratches from black & white negatives:

It's due to the nature of the image on the film and the process by which the scanner identifies imperfections. First, the image on color film, both negatives and positives, is formed by transparent dye clouds of varying density. Think of it as analog. The image on black & white film is formed by metallic silver granules, and they're opaque; the silver halide granules in the emulsion that were struck by light in the exposure were converted to metallic silver by the developer, and then the unexposed silver halide was dissolved and washed away by the fixer, so the black & white image can be thought of as binary or digital; either there's opaque metallic silver, or there's nothing.

 

Now, here's how Digital ICE identifies dust and scratches in a color film scan; during a first pass, a beam of infrared light passes through the film. The infrared light can pass through the dye cloud, but if it encounters a disruption caused by a scratch or an opaque dust or mildew spot, it maps the location of that disruption. After the subsequent RGB image scan, the software remembers what spots were mapped by the infrared scan and then interpolates what it thinks should be there according to the values of the surrounding pixels. It's very effective, and seldom leaves any visible traces in the digital image file it creates.

 

However, the metallic silver image on black & white film is completely opaque, or impenetrable, to the infrared beam, and when the software gets the results of that scan and tries to reconcile them with the subsequent image scan, it simply goes nuts and yields an incomprehensible blotchy mess.

 

There are numerous inexpensive film scanners on the market. A retired railroader and pretty good advanced amateur photographer I once knew put it this way; "Good things ain't cheap, and cheap things ain't good." If you shop the others, look beyond resolution and compare dynamic range; insufficient dynamic range results in limited ability to capture the full range of an image from highlights to shadows, and you're going to end up with blown-out highlights or greyed-out shadows with loss of detail, or dithered bands in solid color areas because the scanner couldn't render the enough of the color gamut of the image. And I seriously wouldn't give up Digital ICE. It may cost a few bucks extra to get a scanner that will do it, but it'll save you hours in the long run.

 

Before I bought my Nikon scanner, I bought a Microtek 8700 flatbed scanner with transparency adapter that I thought would do the job. I ran into dynamic-range limitations almost immediately, and my subsequent experience with Microtek support echoes that of some other owners I've talked with; it simply does not exist. Microtek has never responded to an email question from me or from any other owner I've known, nor do they make any troubleshooting or service documentation available on line that I've been able to find. I'm still using it for scanning documents and old black & white photos. It does a good job there, but completely falls apart on negatives and slides.

 

If you have only a limited number of slides or negs that you want to digitize, you can send them to a custom lab. The downsides to this are that it'll set you back about a buck a scan and you have little control over the quality. The resolution may not be what you specified, and chances are that you'll get back scans that have to be corrected for color balance and exposure and spotted for dust and scratches. Pro-quality scans are going to cost extra - a lot - and you can produce them yourself once you have the hardware.

Thanks! Good to know about the Digital ICE. I did a quick Google search since I asked the question originally and saw a few scanner options, but wasn't sure what to look for in features / pricing range.

 

This isn't an iminent project (redoing the basement is much more pressing...just ask my wife). But once I complete the latter job, I'll have the space to set up a studio to do more of this work. The last issue is finding space in the budget for these things.